Asli Zengin
Aslı Zengin’s work lies at the intersection of ethnography of gender non-conforming lives and deaths; Islamic and medico-legal regimes of sex, gender and sexuality; critical studies of violence and sovereignty; as well as transnational aspects of LGBTQ movements in the Middle East with a special focus on Turkey. She is the Louise Lamphere Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Pembroke Center at Brown University. She is the author of Intimacy of Power: Women Prostitutes, Sex Work and Violence in İstanbul (in Turkish) and currently completing her second book manuscript Trouble with Ambiguity: The State, Islam, Family, and Transgender Embodiment in Contemporary Turkey.
