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Background

Şule Can is a socio-cultural anthropologist who currently works as an Outreach Coordinator and a lecturer at Binghamton University. 

She completed her post-doctoral research on the politics of solidarity among Syrian women in Turkey at the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2019. She obtained her PhD in 2018 from Binghamton University through a Fulbright scholarship and her MA from Istanbul Bilgi University in Cultural Studies. 

Can’s research interests are displacement, borders, ethno-religious boundaries, disaster and cultural heritage, urban politics and anthropology of the Middle East. She is the author of Refugee Encounters at the Turkish-Syrian Border: Antakya at the Crossroads, published in 2019 by Routledge.

Select publications

• Can, Şule (forthcoming). Refugees as “projects”: Humanitarian Responses to Displacement and Refugee-led Organizations in Southern Turkey. Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, Special Issue
• Dağtaş, Seçil and Şule Can 2022. “Distant Toleration”: The Politics of Solidarity Work among Turkish and Syrian Women in Southern Turkey, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 29(1):261-284 
  
• Can, Şule. 2019. Refugee Encounters at the Turkish-Syrian Border: Antakya at the Crossroads. London and New York: Routledge. 
• Can, Şule 2017. “The Syrian Civil War, Sectarianism and Political Change at the Turkish-Syrian Border.” Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 25 (2):174-189.

Education

• PhD in Anthropology, Binghamton University
• MA in Cultural Studies, Istanbul Bilgi University