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Indiana University Bloomington
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Core Faculty : Faculty & Staff

Çiğdem Balım HardingÇiğdem Balım Harding

  • Senior Lecturer, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
  • Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
  • Director of Language Instruction, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • B.A. at Hacettepe University, 1974
  • Ph.D. at University of Washington, 1979

Research Interests

  • Llinguistics
  • Languages and cultures in contact
  • Migration and transnational communities
  • Contemporary Turkic languages, peoples, and communities

Contact Information

cbalim@indiana.edu
Weatherly Hall, 106

(812) 855-9483

Courses Recently Taught

  • Transnational Islam: Muslim Communities in Europe and the USA
  • Modern Literatures of the Middle East in Translation
  • Contemporary Turkey
  • Turkic Linguistics
  • Teaching LCTLs: Arabic as a Foreign Language

Publication Highlights

  • The Balance of Truth: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Lewis. (Co-editor and contributor) İstanbul: İSİS, 2000. 370p.
  • World Bibliographical Series: Turkey. Oxford: ABC-Clio Press, 1999. 407p. (Collator, Editor and contributor)
  • Turkey: Political, Economic and Social Challenges for the 1990s. (Co-editor and contributor) Leiden: Brill, 1995. 307p.
  • Meskhetian Turks: An Introduction to their History, Culture, and U.S. Resettlement Experience. Co-author. Washington D.C. CAL Publications, October 2006.
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