马塞诸斯州大学波士顿

Bobel to teach 性别 Studies at Kadir Has University in Istanbul

Professor of Women's, 性别, and Sexuality Studies 克里斯Bobel has received a 富布赖特U.S. 澳门新葡新京官方计划 award to teach in Istanbul, Turkey this fall.

Through the prestigious Fulbright award, Bobel will teach PhD students in 性别 Studies at Kadir Has University for a full academic year, an experience she says will challenge her in exciting ways as a public intellectual and feminist educator and mentor.

“I love travel as the best means of accessing and learning from cultures different than my own. And the chance to do my job in another place really excites me,波贝尔说. “Turkey is unique in its interesting tensions between East and West, the secular and the religious, and the traditional and modern. 的 complexities of Turkey today are a fruitful site for thinking critically about the 性别ed dimensions of a range of pressing social issues.”

A 马塞诸斯州大学波士顿 faculty member since 2001, Bobel teaches courses on 性别 & 身体, 女权主义理论, 女性主义研究方法, Women in US Social Movements and Feminist Activism. She also coordinates the WGS Internship Program for WGS majors and minors.  Her scholarship lies at the intersection of social movements, 性别, 健康和体现, or how feminist thinking becomes feminist doing at the most intimate and immediate levels. She is currently working on a book about grief-induced activism.

“It is an exciting time for Women’s, 性别 and Sexuality Studies,”她说。. “作为一个领域, it has dramatically transformed in a matter of mere decades from a reparative integration of women’s lived experiences into existing disciplines to a global multi- faceted interdisciplinary and intersectional field of study made stronger by the very transnational debates and contestations at its core. Engaging 性别 Studies in Turkey will have multiple ripple effects. I will meaningfully interact with the future arbiters of the field who hold its future in their hands, and I plan to continue to nurture the relationships I develop at Kadir Has University when I return home.”

除了教学, she plans to mentor PhD students working on their dissertations and support junior faculty who need guidance with their research, 写作, 和发布. Bobel said the opportunity to work with graduate students was a big draw for her. 澳门新葡新京官方女子学院, 性别, and Sexuality Studies is an undergraduate program, so Bobel has limited opportunities to work closely with graduate students.

“When I do get the chance, I really enjoy that work. So teaching PhD students in 性别 Studies in Turkey for a full academic year—a place where the field is burgeoning in a really complicated political climate—will be a career culminating experience, and a chance to strengthen our field’s authority and impact,”她说。.

Bobel says she has been using the Duolingo app to learn some Turkish language as she prepares for the trip, although she is struggling a bit.

“My partner and I have been watching Turkish films set in Istanbul and documentaries about Turkish history,波贝尔说. “I just checked out three highly recommend books about Istanbul. 我有很多东西要学! It is a bit daunting, but also thrilling and I feel very fortunate to have this opportunity.”

She finds the idea of living in Istanbul especially compelling.

“I have never lived in a megacity, so that alone really intrigues me (as does the delicious food and temperate climate, not to mention the famously friendly feral cats that roam the city ). What’s more, the city connects two continents—Europe and Asia. My life will be intercontinental, literally,”她说。. “I will live in Asia and commute about one hour to my university in Europe. Being in such an old city with an incredibly rich history will be endlessly fascinating.”

Bobel is among more than 800 U.S. citizens who will teach or conduct research abroad for the 2024-2025 academic year through the 富布赖特U.S. 澳门新葡新京官方计划.

的 富布赖特项目 是U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program and is supported by the people of the United States and partner countries around the world. 的 富布赖特项目 is funded through an annual appropriation made by the U.S. 国会到美国.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Bobel says her time in Turkey will help her develop new strategies, 加强现有的, that she hopes will benefit her students and colleagues when she returns to Boston.

“Every time I teach and every time I mentor a student or a colleague, 我改进了我的练习, and this benefits those I serve as well as my own work as a scholar and writer,”她说。. “I will make mistakes, and I hope I learn from them.”