Jenny White is an associate professor of anthropology. She is the author of ISLAMIST MOBILIZATION IN TURKEY: A STUDY IN VERNACULAR POLITICS (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002), which won the 2003 Douglass Prize for best book in Europeanist anthropology; and MONEY MAKES US RELATIVES: WOMEN'S LABOR IN URBAN TURKEY (2nd edition, London: Routledge, 2004), as well as numerous articles about Islamic politics, women and Islam, family life, women's labor, small commodity production, and Turks in Germany. Her regions of specialization are Turkey, the Middle East, and Europe, particularly Germany. She teaches courses on Turkey and the Middle East, on urban anthropolgy, ethnicity and identity, gender, and anthropological theory. She is presently at work on a book about changing conceptions of Islam in Turkey.
Selected publications:
Islamist Mobilization in Turkey: A Study in Vernacular Politics. University of Washington Press, 2002.
Money Makes Us Relatives: Women's Labor in Urban Turkey. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
“The Ebbing Power of Turkey’s Secularist Elite”, Current History December 2007. <{invalid_tag_id}>
“The End of Islamism? Turkey’s Muslimhood Model”, Modern Muslim Politics, Robert Hefner, ed., Princeton University Press, 2005, pp. 87-111.
“State Feminism and the Turkish Republican Woman”, National Women’s Studies Association Journal Vol. 15, No. 3 (Fall) 2003, pp. 145-159.
“The Anthropology of Turkey: A Retrospective”, in Turkish Studies in the United States, Donald Quataert and Sabri Sayari, eds., Bloomington: Indiana University Ottoman and Turkish Studies Publications, 2003, pp. 75-98.
“Two Weddings,” in Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East, 2nd Edition, D. L. Bowen and E. Early, eds., Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002, pp. 63-77.
“The Islamist Movement in Turkey and Human Rights”, Human Rights Review October-December 2001, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp.17-26.
“Amplifying Trust: Community and Communication in Turkey,” in New Media and the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere, Dale Eickelman and Jon Anderson, eds., Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999, 162-179.
“Islamic Chic,” in Istanbul Between the Global and the Local, Çaπlar Keyder, ed., Boulder, Co.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.
“Turks in the New Germany,” American Anthropologist 99(4) December 1997, pp. 754-769.
"Turks in Germany: Overview of the Literature," Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 1995, 29:12-15.
Artistic Production:
The Sultan’s Seal (historical fiction, 19th century Turkey), New York: W. W. Norton, February 2006.
The Abyssinian Proof (historical fiction, 19th century Turkey), New York: W. W. Norton, February 2008.
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