Kimberly L. Hart
Assistant Professor
(716) 878-6729
Campus Address: Classroom Building B101
hartkl@buffalostate.edu
Ph.D., Indiana University 2005
Kimberly Hart is a social-cultural anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker. For her dissertation, she studied the agency of women, interpretations of modernity and transformations in the local economy based on a women’s carpet weaving cooperative. Her theoretical interests include agency and empowerment, alternative modernities, rural societies and Islam. Her film, A Wedding in the Yuntdag, won the Society for Visual Anthropology Student Award of Excellence, 2004.
List of Publications
Love by Arrangement: the ambiguity of “spousal choice” in a Turkish village, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2007, 13:345-62.
Weaving Modernity, Commercializing Carpets: Collective Memory and Contested Tradition in Örselli Village (pp. 16-39) in: The Politics of Public Memory in Turkey, edited by Esra Özyürek, Syracuse University Press, 2007.
Editor and contributor: Josephine Powell Collection, 2003 Exhibition Catalogue: Kilim Örnekleri: Examples from Kilims, The Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul 2007.
Editor: Josephine Powell Collection, 2007 Giving Back the Colours, The Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul 2007.
Women, Gender and Marriage: Practices: Turkey, Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Volume III: Family, Body, Sexuality and Health, Brill Publishing, 2005:39-41.
Images and Aftermaths: the Use and Contextualization of Atatürk Imagery in Political Debates in Turkey, PoLar: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 1999, 22(1):66-84.
