Dr. Danielle V. Schoon
Vita
Lecturer at Ohio State University, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Culture (NELC) and Department of Dance
2015 University of Arizona, Ph.D. Dual Degree in Anthropology and Middle Eastern & North African Studies (MENAS), Dissertation: Becoming Roma: Gypsy Identity, Civic Engagement, and Urban Renewal in Turkey
2008 University of Arizona, M.A. in Near Eastern Studies
2002 UCLA, M.A. in World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Grants and Fellowships
AY 2017-2018, Ohio State University UCAT Lecturer Learning Community
Summer 2017 Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Konstanz University
2015 winner of the Anthropology and Environment Society's Next Generation Award
2014-2015 Award Finalist: The Sydney N. Fisher Graduate Student Paper Prize, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA)
2013-2014 Institute of Turkish Studies Dissertation Writing Grant
Academic Year 2011-2012 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (funded by The Mellon Foundation that year)
Summer 2010 Institute of Turkish Studies Summer Research Grant
Research in Turkey
2011- 2012 Dissertation Research in Turkey funded by Fulbright-Hays
Summer 2010 Preliminary Dissertation Research in Istanbul
Summer 2009 Harvard-Koç Summer Ottoman and Modern Turkish Language Institute
November 2008 U.S. Department of State and World Learning Foreign Policy Dialogue Among Emerging Leaders in Turkey and the U.S. in Istanbul, Ankara, and Diyarbakir
Summer 2006 Turkish Language and Culture Program at Boğaziçi University
Other Research
2004 Sevilla, Spain, research in Flamenco and Spanish language and culture
2000 New Caledonia, Pacific Arts Festival UCLA ethnographic video crew
Summer 1999 Kerala, India, University of Wisconsin-Madison Summer Performing Arts Program
Research concentrations
- Cultural Anthropology
- Turkish Studies
- Performance Studies
Function within the Center
Visiting Scholar of the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz (June–July 2017)
Research project “Closing Doors, Opening Windows: Dislocated Roma (“Gypsies”) and the Politics of Openness in Turkey”
Selected Publications
Schoon, Danielle V. and Funda Oral. 2018. “The Role of Communities of Practice in Urban Rights Activism in Istanbul, Turkey.” Carl A. Maida and Sam Beck, eds. Communities of Practice in Global Sustainability. Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford (in preparation).
Schoon, Danielle V. 2018. “Between Global Solidarity and National Belonging: The Politics of Inclusion for Romanlar in Turkey.” In Renewing Research and Romani Activism, Eds. Sam Beck and Ana Ivasiuc. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Schoon, Danielle van Dobben. 2014. “’Sulukule is the gun and we are its Bullets’: Urban Renewal and Romani identity in Istanbul.” CITY: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, Vol. 18, No. 6: 720-731.
Angell, Elizabeth, Timur Hammond and Danielle van Dobben Schoon. 2014. “Istanbul Assemblages: Buildings and Bodies in a World City.” Introduction to Special Feature. CITY: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, Vol. 18, No.6.
Contact
e-mail schoon.2[at]osu.edu