Student News
December 7, 2020
Student profile: Canan Bolel – Epidemics and the Politics of Pestilence in Ottoman Izmir and in the Present
Canan Bolel, a PhD candidate in the University of Washington’s NMES program, is finishing up her dissertation focusing on the experiences of the Jewish population in mid to late 19th century Ottoman Izmir. When she set out to conduct archival research into the city’s historical cholera epidemics though, she little realized how far 2020’s events…
November 6, 2020
Mindy Cohoon: The Right to Play Games
November 2, 2020
Near and Middle Eastern Studies Students Present a Virtual Panel at the 2020 Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting
October 30, 2020
Student profile: Melinda Cohoon – Exploring the Political Worlds of Online Videogaming, between Iranian Gamers and the 2020 US Election
Melinda Cohoon, a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Washington’s NMES program, is setting out on a year of dissertation field research, funded by an SSRC Social Data Research and Dissertation fellowship. Her methods have much in common with traditional ethnography, drawing heavily on interviews and participant observation, but her field site is atypical. She…
September 13, 2020
Mindy Cohoon Wins SSRC Dissertation Fellowship: “The 2020 US Elections Post-GamerGate: Political Discourse among Iranian and Iranian-American Gamers on Social Media”
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