Asli Igsiz

Associate Professor

Bio

Aslı Iğsız is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. Her research interests include political violence, eugenics, humanism, spatial segregation and forced migration, and cultural policy. Her first book Humanism in Ruins: Entangled Legacies of the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange (Stanford University Press) was published in 2018. Humanism in Ruins sought to offer a critique of liberalism from the angle of the management of difference, and explored the underlying racialized logics of population transfers, partitions, segregation, apartheid, and border walls. Currently she is working on a new project on the notion of fascist utopias in the contemporary world context. Iğsız will spend 2021-2022 in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, completing this monograph.

 

Education

Ph.D., University of Michigan, Comparative Literature
M.A., University of Michigan, Near Eastern Studies
M.A., Hacettepe University, French Literature
B.A., Bogaziçi University, Foreign Language Education

Courses

Undergraduate Courses:

"Rethinking Forced Migration"

"Civilization and Branding the Orient."

"Brand Turkey: Authoritarianism, Neoliberalism, and Cultural Politics from the 1980 Coup to the Gezi Protests"

"Literature and Society in the Middle East" (departmental core course)

"Istanbul." (college core)

Graduate Courses:

"Fascist Utopias: A Public Humanities Perspective." 

"Forced Migration: A History of the Present."

"Civilization, Humanism, and Branding the Nation"

"Prisms of Cultural Critique and the Modern Middle East"

"Visual Culture, Capitalism and the Middle East.

Fellowships/Honors

2021-2022, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
2009 – 2011, Postdoctoral Fellowship in International Humanities (Mediterranean Studies), Comparative Literature and Cogut Center for the Humanities. Brown University, Providence. (declined)
2007 – 2008, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, “Europe and the Middle East.” Wissenschaftskolleg, Free University of Berlin. (declined)
October 2006, Fellow, Summer Academy in Beirut, Lebanon. Europe in the Middle East, Middle East in Europe. Institute for Advanced Study, Working Group, Modernity and Islam. Wissenschaftskolleg, Free University of Berlin and American University in Beirut.
Spring – Fall
2004 – 2005, Fellow, Institute for the Humanities. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Sept. 2004, Fellow, Summer Academy in Alexandria, Egypt. Literatures and Borders: Delimitations, Transgressions. Institute for Advanced Study, Working Group, Modernity and Islam. Wissenschaftskolleg, Free University of Berlin and the Swedish Institute.
2004, Humanities Dissertation Research Fellowship. Horace H. Rackham Graduate School. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Fall 2003, Fellow, Global Ethnic Literatures Seminar. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Summer 2003, Joukowsky Family Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship. American Research Institute in Turkey.
2002 – 2003, Václav Havel Dissertation Award. Center for Russian and East European Studies, International Institute. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.