Faculty

Anna J. Secor

Associate Professor in Geography

Room: 1463 Patterson Office Tower
Telephone: (859) 257-1362
Email:  ajseco2@uky.edu
 
 
 

Profile

Anna Secor is a political, urban, feminist geographer who does field research on questions of identity, politics and space in Istanbul, Turkey . Through ongoing fieldwork and multi-method research designs (consisting of large-scale surveys, focus groups and interviews), Anna's work explores the spatial politics of gender and other dimensions of difference, such as ethnicity, class, migrant status and religion. She is particularly interested in how the discourse and practices of citizenship, civil society and the state are enacted in everyday life in Turkey. Her recent research on civil society has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science. The project, which is funded until 2005, is titled:  "Reshaping Civil Society: Islam, Democracy and Diversity in Istanbul."   Anna's published work includes articles on veiling as a socio-spatial practice in Istanbul (in Gender, Place and Culture), identity, belonging and rights in the city (in Urban Geography), women's work and the performativity of gender (in Environment and Planning A), and the everyday politics of citizenship in Istanbul (in Annals of the Association of American Geographers).  Other work forthcoming or under review includes a study of human rights discourse and the production of "the headscarf issue" in Turkey, and a chapter on policing, guilt and justice in Istanbul. Her current project focuses on everyday encounters with the state. Anna received her PhD from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2000.