Zeynep Kılıç was born and raised in Turkey. After completing her bachelor’s degree in economics at the Middle East Technical University, she moved to the U.S. to pursue graduate school in 1993. She completed her masters and doctorate degrees in sociology at the Arizona State University. She arrived in Anchorage in the summer of 2008 after fourteen years in the Arizona desert. She is still getting acclimated…

Her earlier work focused on immigration, belonging and citizenship. Her later research was in food studies, continuing her work as a cultural sociologist, always interested in questions of identity and belonging. Her project, Tables of Istanbul, has been supported by grants from the TCF, ITS, UAA and Fulbright.  As a professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, besides dabbling in film-making and writing, she taught sociology classes. Recently she left the university and cooks with her brother at their very own Turkish restaurant in Anchorage (Turkish Delight). She loves to dance Argentine tango, and adores her husband Wayne who single handedly renovated their home.

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