Faculty Books
Evren Savci
Visiting Assistant Professor
515 Clark Street,
Room 206
Phone: (847) 467-2174
e-savci@northwestern.edu
Office Hours: (Winter 2012)
Monday and Wednesday 2:00-3:30
Areas of Interest
Sexualities
Queer Studies
Gender
Transnational and Cultural Sociology
Social Theory
Epistemology
Global Inequalities
Subaltern Studies
Postcolonial Studies
Biography
Evren Savci is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Sexuality Studies, recruited through The Sexualities Project at Northwestern. She is affiliated with Sociology and Gender Studies. Evren completed her Ph.D. at USC in Sociology and Gender Studies in 2011. Her dissertation project was a multi-sited, multi-method analysis of contemporary urban queer sites and politics in Turkey, and what they reveal about the mechanisms of abjection of the modern westernizing Nation-State, especially the roles played by processes of sexualization, racialization, secularization, criminalization and gendering of citizen subjects within the context of modern nation-state formation and national aspirations for "civilization."
Currently, she is studying practices of Islamic matrimony, cousin marriage, and polygamy that were outlawed or strongly discouraged by the new Republic, yet are still practiced today. Through looking at the contemporary forms of these practices, she will think about what stake the Turkish nation-state had in regulating these forms of sexuality and what these "failures" and their persistence tell us about Westernization in return.
Publications
The Issue of Queer Language: Apolitics and Cultural Capital (Forthcoming)
Cuneyt Cakirlar, Serkan Delice, Metis Yayinlari (eds.); Queer Readings of Turkey, 2012
LGBT Families Research in the Last Decade
With Timothy Biblarz; Journal of Marriage and the Family, 2010
Sociology Robert F. Winch Awards for 2011
Outstanding Graduate Student Lecturer: Marina Zaloznaya
Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistants: Fiona Chin and Christopher Carroll
Outstanding Graduate Student Second-Year Paper: Jaimie Morse
Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Published or Presented:
Upcoming Events
Colloquium: Nicola Beisel, PhD - Sociology
February 23, 2012 • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Culture and Society Workshop: Simone Ispa-Landa, Human Development and Social Policy
February 23, 2012 • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
