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Core Faculty : Faculty & Staff

Çiğdem Balım HardingÇiğdem Balım Harding

  • Senior Lecturer, 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
Goodbody Hall, 208

(812) 855-9483

Courses Recently Taught

  • Language and Society in the Middle East
  • Transnational Islam: Muslim Communities in Europe and the USA
  • Teaching Less Commonly Taught Languages: Theory, Methodology and Techniques
  • Modern Literatures of the Middle East in Translation
  • Contemporary Turkey
  • Turkic Linguistics

Publication Highlights

  • “Turkish Literature between the 10th and 18th centuries” in The New Cambridge History of Islam; vol 4. Cambridge: CUP (2010).
  • “History Mirrored in Words: Language Policy in Azerbaijan.”  In  The Azerbaijanis.  Edited by  N. Awde &  F. J. Hill. London: Bennett & Bloom 2009, pp. 63- 81.
  • “Heritage of the Epics: A Brief Overview of  Literature.”  In  The Azerbaijanis. Edited by  N. Awde & F. J. Hill. London: Bennett & Bloom, 2009, pp. 91-105.
  • 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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