Confronting Challenges: To Be an Armenian Feminist in Turkey

18:30, September 2, 2015

An Interview with Lerna Ekmekcioglu

Lerna Ekmekcioglu is McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History and Women and Gender Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She earned her bachelor's degree at Boğaziçi University in Turkey and master's and PhD degrees from New York University. Lerna has authored a range of articles about ethnic and religious minorities, genocide, Armenian community in post-genocide Turkey, concentrating on the gendered perspective. In 2006, she co-edited "A Cry for Justice: Five Armenian Feminist Writers from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic (1862-1933)" in Turkish, with Melissa Bilal. At the end of this year her second book, "Recovering Armenia: Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey" will be published.  Read more... (3239 words)

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