Senior Lecturer
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Current Research
My research centers on mutual constitutions of ecologies, scientific expertise, and infrastructures as conduits for people’s claims about livelihood and moral subjectivity. I am completing a large ethnographic and archival research project that examines the dynamic multivalence of wetlands. In Turkey, as in many other places, the wetland became an important site of everyday contestations over new and foreclosed possibilities in a time of uncertain politics and in precarious and rapidly changing environments. I am also starting new research on ecological precarity and mobility across the Mediterranean. In this work, I am exploring how Turkey’s yerel tohumlar and Italy’s semi tradizionali – open-pollinated garden seed varieties – channel concerns of ethnic, regional, religious, and national belonging in a time of rising authoritarianism, increased migration and displacement, and heightened climate crisis.