I had developed this site mainly as a medium of communication with current and potential students. Now that I am not working at UVic any longer but still get inquiries from students I will continue to keep it in its current form for some time. I have been compiling academic resource page in the last two years but  I will not post any Gagauz materials before it is more or less finished. Links to some of my work can be found on the publications page. I  also included the virtual places I find useful and inspiring to visit. Currently I am working on my book that covers two decade of postsocialist transformation in Moldova among the Gagauz population along side of a few side other smaller projects therefore I will not be very active here. I will be living in a triangle of Canada, Turkey and Italy with research trips to former USSR territory. Thanks to those who asked me to be blogging regularly, your enthusiasm in the late Spring was very tempting but, you surely do not lack reading material or opinions on what is deemed to be the latest!! I will post links to share music and text from time to time. Now it is my time to go quite, not lecture but read and write. I have to do a lot of listening though.  I try to keep an eye on what goes on Open Anthropology Cooperative group and forum debates but I am not planing to participate there actively either.  I continue with supervision and committee work but please do not get frustrated if I do not respond earlier than 3 to 6 days for other inquiries.

July 11, 2011

HD

Biographic info;

In 1987 I left a sociology MA in Turkey (at METU) in order to study anthropology in Norway. All my graduate training in social anthropology is from University of Oslo, Norway. Prior to joining the  University of Victoria Anthropology Department in July 2004 I held a tenure track position at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta. I have a research experience from Turkey, Norway, Azerbaijan and Moldova. My doctoral work was on the Gagauz nation-building and place-making project. I have recently been working on a project investigating the flow of sexual and domestic labour from the former Soviet Union, with a special focus on Moldova and Turkey. One of my latest long-term project is the documentation and analysis over several decades of the godparenthood system in a Gagauz village in Moldova.

Автор публикаций о развитии гагаузской нации, о положении женщин в Азербайджане, о транснационализме, а также о домашней и сексуальной эксплуатации  в Восточной Европе и Турции. Британская Колумбия, Канада.

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