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Prof. Lerna Ekmekcioglu
McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History
Director, Women's and Gender Studies Program (WGS)
Primary DLC
History
MIT Room:
E51-273
(617) 253-9621
lerna@mit.edu
http://history.mit.edu/people/lerna-ekmekcioglu
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Cultural History
Women and Gender
Research Summary
Ekmekcioglu research is focused on ethnic and religious minorities and the ways in which minority-ness and gender interplay. She is interested in understanding minority populations’ negotiations of difference from and sameness with the majority group. Ekmekcioglu is also a scholar of genocide, with a particular interest in pursuing the links between the genocide and post-genocide, especially from a gendered perspective. She does work in the field of sexual violence during mass atrocities and “war babies.”
Recent Work
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