KIMBERLY HART
Department of Anthropology
SUNY Buffalo State
1300 Elmwood Ave.
Buffalo, NY 14222
hartkl@buffalostate.edu
kilhart@gmail.com
Current Appointments
Associate Professor, SUNY Buffalo State, Department of Anthropology, 2014-
Education
Indiana University, Ph.D. Anthropology, Minor: Western European Studies, 2005
Indiana University, MA Turkish Studies, Central Eurasian Studies Department, 1995
Bennington College, BA Philosophy, Minor: Music, 1989
Publications: books
And Then We Work for God: Rural Sunni Islam in Western Turkey. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013.
Modernliği Dokumak: Bir Batı Anadolu Köyünde Hayat, Aşk, ve Emek (Weaving Modernity: Life, Love, and Labor in a Western Antatolian Village). Istanbul: Koç University Press, 2011.
Publications: peer-reviewed journal articles and pieces in collected volumes
Performing Piety: Religion and Rural Life for Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Empatinin Kültürel Boyutlari Üzerine: Sokak Hayvanları ve İstanbul (On the Cultural Dimensions of Empathy: Street Animals and Istanbul). In: Şehir ve Hayvan (The City and the Animals). edited by Ayten Alkan, Istanbul: Patika Kitap, 2020.
Caring for Istanbul's Street Animals: Empathy, Altruism, and Rage, In: Man's Best Friend? Rethinking Human-Canid Relations, edited by John Soreson and Atsuko Matsuoka, McGill-Queens University Press, 2019.
Istanbul’s Intangible Cultural Heritage as Embodied by Street Animals, History and Anthropology, Special Issue, edited by Jeremy Walton, 30(3): 448-59 (2019).
The Suburbanization of Rural Life in an Arid and Rocky Village in Western Turkey Special Issue Women in Drylands. Journal of Arid Environments, 149:73-9 (2018).
Kilims as the Cultural Repository of Animal-Human Relationships, Contribution to Megalli Exhibit, edited by Sumru Krody, George Washington University Textile Museum, 2018.
Emplacing Islam: Saint Veneration in Rural Turkey, Special Issue on Muslim Women in the Circum-Mediterranean. Urban Anthropology, 44(1, 2):71-113 (2015).
The Decline of a Cooperative. In Cross-stitching Textile Economies with Value, Sanctity, and Transnationalism, Walter Little and Patricia A. McAnany, eds. New York: AltaMira Press, 2011.
Modernist Desires among Recent Migrants in Western Turkey. Nordic Journal of Migration Research 2(2): 34-41 (2011).
The Economy and Morality of Elopement in Rural Western Turkey. Ethnologia Europaea 40(1):58-76 (2011).
Conflicts and Conundrums in a Women’s Cooperative in Western Turkey. Hagar Autumn 9(1):25-42 (2009).
The Orthodoxization of Ritual Practice in Western Anatolia. American Ethnologist 36(4):735-49 (2009).
Performing Piety and Islamic Modernity in a Turkish Village. Ethnology 46(4):289-304 (2007).
Love by Arrangement: the ambiguity of ‘spousal choice’ in a Turkish village. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13:345-62 (2007).
Weaving Modernity, Commercializing Carpets: Collective Memory and Contested Tradition in Örselli Village. In The Politics of Public Memory in Turkey, Esra Özyürek, ed., Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, (2006).
Women, Gender and Marriage: Practices: Turkey. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Volume III: Family, Body, Sexuality and Health, Suad Joseph, ed., Boston: Brill Publishing, 2005.
Images and Aftermaths: The Use and Contextualization of Atatürk Imagery in Political Debates in Turkey. PoLar: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 22(1):66-84 (1999).
Other Publications: exhibit catalogs
Editor and contributor, What Josephine Saw: Twentieth Century Photographic Visions of Rural Anatolia (Josephine’in Gördüğü: 20 Yüzyılda Anadolu’nun Kırsal Yörelerine Fotoğrafik Bakışlar). Istanbul: Koç University Press, 2012, second edition 2018.
Editor and contributor: Kilim Örnekleri: Examples from Kilims. Istanbul: Vehbi Koç Foundation, 2007.
Editor: Giving Back the Colours. Istanbul: Vehbi Koç Foundation, 2007.
Art Work Exhibited
Oil Paintings, "My House," "View of Neighbors," and "Garden" for "Home: An Ann Frank Project Exhibition, SUNY Buffalo State, September 2024
Oil Paintings, "Daffodil" and "Pineapple" Exhibit, "Traditional Western New York Artist Group, Buffalo, NY, 2024
Oil Paintings, "Triad," Exhibit on "Modern," Exhibit, "Traditional," Western New York Artist Group, Buffalo, NY, 2023.
Oil Painting, "Lemon and Lamp," Exhibit, "Traditional Western New York Artist Group, Buffalo, NY, 2023.
Oil Painting, "Kenmore Water Tower," Exhibit on "Modern," Western New York Artist Group, Buffalo, NY, 2023.
Mixed Media, "Pandemic Garden," in Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not), Center for Religion & The Human, Indiana University, 2023 and https://touchmenot.indiana.edu/gallery/hartpainting.html
3 Expressive Chemogram pieces, Chemical Drawings by Juan Perdiguero and Students, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2022.
Screen Print, "Winter Garden," "Strolling in Negative," other linocut and screen prints, Western NY Book Arts Members Shows, Buffalo, NY, 2018-2021.
Linocuts, Rochester Print Club Member Shows, Rochester, NY, 2018-2021.
Electrophotography piece in Hallwalls Member Club Show, Buffalo, NY, 2018.
Solo Exhibit
Ethnographic Photographs, "Animals in the City," Bacon Gallery, SUNY Buffalo State, September 2018.
Curated Exhibits and Exhibit Consultancy
Curatorial Consultant, Megalli Exhibit, Sumru Krody, Senior Curator, George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum, Washington, DC, Fall 2018.
Curator: "Josephine ve Ayrıntılar/Josephine’s Fragments," VEKAM and Erimtan Museum, Ankara, March 30-June 10, 2016.
Co-curator with Ciğdem Maner, "Josephine Powell'in Toros Dağlarında Gördükleri/What Josephine Powell saw in the Tautrus Mountains," Ereğil Archaeology Museum, Ereğil, Turkey, June 2016.
Curator: "Josephine’in Gördüğü/What Josephine Saw," Koç University ANAMED, Istanbul, June 11-October 21, 2012, on permanent display at Koç University. Istanbul.https://anamed.ku.edu.tr/en/events/anamed-exhibitions-in-koc-university-campus/
Exhibition work: "Kilim Örnekleri: Examples of Kilims," Josephine Powell Collection, Ottoman Imperial Mint, Istanbul (Darphane), History Foundation of Turkey (Tarih Vakfı), 2003.
Research Center Project Proposal, grant, and web page design, Anatolian Heritage Research Center, Economic and Social History Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey, 2000-3.
Visual Productions and Screenings
35 tapes of fieldwork in Orselli Village and of Istanbul 2000-2005, on Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/user/kilhart/videos
“Village and Marriage Rituals in Turkey,” EVIA (10 hours annotated video footage) IU, 2013. https://media.eviada.org/eviadasb/home.html.
“Yapak/Winter Wool,” 23 minute video on weaving in a village in western Turkey, 2004.
Screenings: Textile Society of America Annual Conference, 2006.
Middle Eastern Studies Association Film Festival, 2004.
Screening at Nickel Arts Museum University of Calgary, 2009.
“A Wedding in the Yuntdağ,” 45 minute video on the emotion and rituals of marriage, 2003.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cpS7oOfBkU&t=158s
Screenings: Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival 2004 and 2005
Middle Eastern Studies Association Film Festival 2003.
Screening with lecture and discussion at Indiana University, IUPUI, Bilgi University (Istanbul), Hampshire College, Boston University
[“A Wedding in the Yuntdağ,” Reviewed by Liam Buckley, Student Award Winners, American Anthropologist, 107(2): 244-6.]
Awards
Honorable Mention, "Triad," Exhibit on "Modern," Exhibit, "Traditional," Western New York Artist Group, Buffalo, NY, 2023.
Finalists, AAA Photo Contest: “Yasemin’s Mother” and “Hatice and Landscape,” 2008.
Student Award of Excellence, Society for Visual Anthropology, “A Wedding in the Yuntdağ,” 2004.
Central States Best Graduate Paper, “Images and Aftermaths: the Use and Contextualization of Atatürk Imagery in Political Debates in Turkey,” 1998.
Fellowships, Grants and Scholarships
TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), Şehir University, Associate Professor Eda Yücesoy, June 2019 and January 2020.
UUP Individual Development Award, SUNY Buffalo State, “Animals in the City,” Istanbul, Winter 2016-7.
Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, “Istanbul Street Cats and Expressions of Human Kindness and Neglect,” 2015-6.
Research Incentive Grant, SUNY Research Foundation, “State Structures of Popular Islamic Practice in Turkey: the Veneration of Saints,” Summer 2014.
Publication Subvention, Institute of Turkish Studies, And Then We Work for God, 2013.
Fellowship, Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2010-1.
Institute of Turkish Studies, “On the Discursive and Practiced Efficacy of Tomb Veneration in Rural Western Anatolia,” May-June 2010.
Institute of Turkish Studies, “The Orthodoxization of Islamic Practice in Western Turkey,” 2010.
American Research Institute in Turkey, US Department of State, “The Orthodoxization of Islamic Practice in Western Turkey,” July-December 2009.
Institute of Turkish Studies, “Performing Piety and Islamic Modernity in Western Turkey,” June-July 2008.
Incentive Award, The Research Foundation, SUNY, “Performing Piety and Islamic Modernity in Western Turkey,” Fall 2008.
American Research Institute in Turkey, US Department of State, “Performing Piety and Islamic Modernity in Western Turkey,” Summer 2008.
Future Faculty Fellowship from Indiana University, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, 2002-2003.
Dissertation Write-up Grant, Institute of Turkish Studies, 2001.
Fulbright-Hays, “A Comparative Study of Collective and Independent Carpet Production in Rural Turkey,” 1999.
Harold Schneider Award, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, “Yuntdağ Weaving Cooperative,” Turkey, Summer 1998.
Skomp Awards, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, “Political Imagery and Debates on Secularism and Islam,” Istanbul, Turkey, Summer 1997.
Skomp Awards, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, “Visual Representations of Ethnicity and Identity among Second-Generation Turkish Immigrants,” Mannheim, Germany, Summer 1996.
Scholarship, Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) German, IU, 1996-7.
Scholarship, FLAS in Turkish, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, Summer 1995.
Scholarship, GAN (National Need Fellowship) in Turkish, Central Eurasian Studies, IU, 1993-4.
Scholarship, Agnes Lindsay Scholarship for Promising Students from New England, Bennington College, 1986-9.
Ethnographic Fieldwork
The Street Animals of Istanbul: Expressions of Human Kindness and Cruelty: Summer 2014, academic year 2015-6, December 2016-January 2017, June 2019, December 2019- January 2020
Yörük in Fethiye/Antalya Region, 1 week in 2016
Islamic Practice in Manisa, Balikesir, Istanbul, and Bamberg, Germany: Summer 2008, 8 months 2009, Summer 2010
Village Life, the DOBAG Project, Marriage Practices, Rural Manisa: Summer 1998, 1/2000- 8/2001, October 2003, January 2004
Ataturk Imagery, Summer 1997
Turkish Immigrants, Mannheim, Germany, Summer 1996
Lectures
Managing and Understanding Street Animals in Istanbul, MENA Monday's Northwestern University, May 2021
Urban Space and Istanbul's Street Animal Populations, Center for Urban Studies, Şehir University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2019.
Gallery Talk, Kilims, Nomads, and Sheep, Textiles at Twelve Series, George Washington University Textile Museum, Washington, DC, 2018.
On Josephine Powell's Life as a Mentor, Collector, and Photographer in Turkey and Beyond, George Washington University Textile Museum, Washington, DC, 2018.
Animals in the City, Burchfield Penney, Buffalo, NY, September 2018.
Animals in the City: Kedici, SUNY Buffalo State Anthropology Society, Women and Gender Studies Brown Bag Lecture, Buffalo, NY, 2016.
Caring for the Street Cats of Istanbul, Anthropology, SUNY University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 2016.
Animals in the City, Human-Animal Relations Workshop, IEFA (Institut Francais D’Etudes Anatoliennes, French Institute for Anatolian Studies), Istanbul, 2016.
Street Animals, the City, and the State, American Research Institute in Turkey, Istanbul, 2016.
Street Animals and the City, Fulbright Final Meeting, Antalya, Turkey, 2016.
Turkish Islamic Practice, Memory and Elision, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, CETREN, Göttingen University, Göttingen, Germany, 2016.
Conference Keynote Address: Considering Gender and Culture in Turkey Today, Conference on Languages, Cultures and Gender, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, 2016.
Discussing What Josephine Saw, Koç University ANAMED (Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations) Library Collection Talk, Istanbul, Turkey, 2016.
Gendering Rural Islam in Turkey, Buffett Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2015.
The Gendering of Religious Practice in Rural Turkey, Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life, Columbia University, New York, New York, 2014.
An Ethnography of Sunni Islamic Practice in Rural Turkey, Niagara University, Lewiston, NY, 2013.
On the exhibit, What Josephine Saw, for Smellscapes of Eminönü, Urban Cultural Heritage & Creative Practice: Istanbul Workshop, Koç University Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), Istanbul, Turkey, 2012.
Turkish Sunni Pluralities: orthodoxies, efficacies, and debates on state power, Center for European Studies (CEUS), University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 2012.
The Quest for Secular and Sacred Salvation in Rural Anatolia, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, Thursday Seminar, Princeton, NJ, 2011.
Women’s Work in Secular and Sacred Redemption in Western Turkey, Conversations In and Out of the Disciplines Series, SUNY Buffalo State, Buffalo, NY, 2010.
From the Yuntdağ to Bamberg and back: recent research on rural Anatolian connections to Tarikats, the Diyanet, and everyday Islam, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2009.
Sacred and Secular Salvation: Rural Islamic Practices in Western Anatolia, Koç University, Department of Sociology, Istanbul, Turkey 2009.
Sacred and Secular Salvation: Rural Islamic Practices in Western Anatolia, ARIT (American Research Institute in Turkey), Istanbul, Turkey, 2009.
What Josephine Saw: on the life and work of Josephine Powell, Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2009.
Obedience and Agency: On Marriage in a Turkish Village, Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2004.
The Waning of Paternal Authority and the Rise of Romantic Love in a Turkish Village, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2003.
Paternal Authority and Romantic Love in a Turkish Village, Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2003.