Kimberly L. Hart
Associate Professor Buckham Hall A118EPhone: (716) 878-6729
Email: hartkl@buffalostate.edu
Kimberly Hart is a cultural anthropologist (Ph.D. Indiana University 2005) working in Turkey on the street animals of Istanbul. This on-going project has been funded by the Fulbright Foundation, TUBITAK the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, and UUP. She was a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ (2010-2011), where she wrote a manuscript published at Stanford University Press, And then we work for God (2013). Her doctoral work was on the DOBAG project, a women's carpet weaving cooperative in western Anatolia, known for the use of natural dyes. This work was funded by the American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT), the Institute for Turkish Studies (ITS), through support from the Anthropology Department at Indiana University, and with a Fulbright-Hays doctoral research fellowship (2000-1). Hart is also known for her work documenting and promoting Josephine Powell's photography in Anatolia during the 20th century and textile collections from Turkey through exhibits and catalogs. Before teaching at SUNY Buffalo State, she taught at the College of the Holy Cross, Indiana University Purdue University in Indianapolis (IUPUI), at Indiana University, and internationally, in Kyrgyzstan at the American University in Bishkek (2003) and in Canada at the University of Regina (2007-8).
Fulbright for research on the Street Animals of Istanbul, 2015-2016
https://fulbrightscholars.org/grantee/kimberly-hart
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2021/03/18/istanbul-turkey-dogs-stray-documentary/
Exhibit: What Josephine Saw at the ANAMED (Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations), Koç University, Istanbul 2012
Accompanying exhibit catalog:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/W/bo117741804.html
Interview by Susanne Fowler. Witness to a Fading Lifestyle on the Anatolian Plain. The New York Times and International Herald Tribune. August 29, 2012.
Interview by Andrew Finkel. A Nomad among Nomads, The Anatolian photographs of Josephine Powell. Cornucopia Magazine. 47, 2012.
https://www.cornucopia.net/magazine/articles/a-nomad-among-nomads/
Institute for Advanced Study
Member 2010-2011
https://www.ias.edu/scholars/kimberly-hart
And then we work for God
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=22205
https://kimberlylouisehart.net/
Under Review: The Malleability of Identity and Economic Strategies among Anatolian Yörük, Çaltılar Archaeology Project: Comparative Micro-regional Analysis in the Lycian Highlands, Alan Greaves, editor, London: British Institute at Ankara.
Empatinin Kültürel Boyutlari Üzerine: Sokak Hayvanları ve İstanbul (On the Cultural Dimensions of Empathy: Street Animals and Istanbul). In: Şehir ve Hayvan (The City and the Animals). edited by Ayten Alkan, Istanbul: Patika Kitap, 2020.
Caring for Istanbul's Street Animals: Empathy, Altruism, and Rage, In: Man's Best Friend? Rethinking Human-Canid Relations, edited by John Soreson and Atsuko Matsuoka, McGill-Queens University Press, 2019.
Istanbul’s Intangible Cultural Heritage as Embodied by Street Animals, History and Anthropology, Special Issue, edited by Jeremy Walton, 30(3): 448-59 (2019).
The Suburbanization of Rural Life in an Arid and Rocky Village in Western Turkey Special Issue Women in Drylands. Journal of Arid Environments, 149:73-9 (2018).
Kilims as the Cultural Repository of Animal-Human Relationships, Contribution to Megalli Exhibit, edited by Sumru Krody, George Washington University Textile Museum, 2018.
Editor and contributor, What Josephine Saw: Twentieth Century Photographic Visions of Rural Anatolia (Josephine’in Gördüğü: 20 Yüzyılda Anadolu’nun Kırsal Yörelerine Fotoğrafik Bakışlar). Istanbul: Koç University Press, 2012, second edition 2018.
Preface and translation, Kedi (Cat), Sami Uçan, self-published photography book, 2018.
Emplacing Islam: Saint Veneration in Rural Turkey, Special Issue on Muslim Women in the Circum-Mediterranean. Urban Anthropology, 44(1, 2):71-113 (2015).
And Then We Work for God: Rural Sunni Islam in Western Turkey. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013.
Through Josephine’s Eyes. Hali Magazine, Fall, 2012.
Modernliği Dokumak: Bir Batı Anadolu Köyünde Hayat, Aşk, ve Emek (Weaving Modernity: Life, Love, and Labor in a Western Antatolian Village). Istanbul: Koç University Press, 2011.
The Decline of a Cooperative. In Cross-stitching Textile Economies with Value, Sanctity, and Transnationalism, Walter Little and Patricia A. McAnany, eds. New York: AltaMira Press, 2011.
Modernist Desires among Recent Migrants in Western Turkey. Nordic Journal of Migration Research 2(2): 34-41 (2011).
The Economy and Morality of Elopement in Rural Western Turkey. Ethnologia Europaea 40(1):58-76 (2011).
Conflicts and Conundrums in a Women’s Cooperative in Western Turkey. Hagar Autumn 9(1):25-42 (2009).
The Orthodoxization of Ritual Practice in Western Anatolia. American Ethnologist, 36(4):735-49 (2009).
Proceedings, “Trousseaux: From Weaving Textiles to Collecting Mass Commodities,” Textile Society of America, 2010.
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1018&context=tsaconf (accessed September 6, 2012)
Proceedings, “Culture Brokers: Villagers, Photographers, Scientists, and Others,” Textile Society of America, 2008.
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1274&context=tsaconf (accessed September 6, 2012)
Living with Josephine: in Memoriam. Hali Magazine 151, Spring: 37(2007).
Performing Piety and Islamic Modernity in a Turkish Village. Ethnology 46(4):289-304 (2007).
Love by Arrangement: the ambiguity of ‘spousal choice’ in a Turkish village. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13:345-62 (2007).
Editor and contributor: Kilim Örnekleri: Examples from Kilims. Istanbul: Vehbi Koç oundation, 2007.
Editor: Giving Back the Colours. Istanbul: Vehbi Koç Foundation, 2007.
Weaving Modernity, Commercializing Carpets: Collective Memory and Contested Tradition in Örselli Village. In The Politics of Public Memory in Turkey, Esra Özyürek, ed., Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, (2006).
Women, Gender and Marriage: Practices: Turkey. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Volume III: Family, Body, Sexuality and Health, Suad Joseph, ed., Boston: Brill Publishing, 2005.
Images and Aftermaths: The Use and Contextualization of Atatürk Imagery in Political Debates in Turkey. PoLar: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 22(1):66-84 (1999).