CMES Colloquium: Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey

Elif Babül received her Phd from Stanford University in 2012. Her primary specialization is in national and transnational bureaucracies and the politics of human rights in Turkey. Her research has been funded by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, and the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Her work has appeared in the American Ethnologist, PoLAR, and New Perspectives on Turkey. Her book Bureucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey, published in 2017 by Stanford University Press, is the winner of the William A. Douglass Prize for the best book in Europeanist Anthropology.