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Modern southeastern Europe, food studies, alcohol and tobacco, ethnic conflict, nationalism, material culture, and gender
• Contemporary transnational/exile literature • Contemporary Turkish-Kurdish and Iraqi-Kurdish prose literature • Turkish women writers and filmmakers • Turkish film production, distribution and reception • Political…
Greek art and archaeology; myth in images in Greek and Roman Antiquity; art and archaeology of Greek sanctuaries; visual culture of preliterate Greece; the Orientalizing phenomenon; art as a means of communication in…
Historical Linguistics, comparative Semitic linguistics, syntax, ancient Near East, languages in contact, linguistic methodology
Modern and classical Hebrew language and literature; Jewish history and culture; teaching Hebrew as a foreign language; Israeli children's literature; women and war
Dr. Seeman’s interests focus on the music of modern Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, and Southeastern Europe, specializing in Romani (“Gypsy”) communities. She has been conducting field research in Macedonia and…
Textiles, dress, gender identity discourse, and material culture in the Middle East; the meanings of veiling; rituals and rites of passage as they relate to material culture
Medieval Islamic history and religion; Ottoman Turkish and Byzantine cultures; pre-Islamic religions of Iran; Islam in Europe and America; Gender- social attitudes toward women in each of these historical contexts…