Jenny White

Jenny White has written numerous books and articles on Turkey and lectures internationally on topics ranging from political Islam and Turkish politics to ethnic identity and gender issues. She has been following events in Turkey since the mid-1970s.

Prof. White is the former president of the Turkish Studies Association and of the American Anthropological Association Middle East Section. She has received numerous grants and fellowships from, among others, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, the Social Science Research Council, the MacArthur Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and Fulbright-Hays.

She is author of Turkish Kaleidoscope (May 2021, Princeton University Press), Muslim Nationalists and the New Turks (2012, Princeton University Press, second edition, 2014), Islamist Mobilization in Turkey: A Study in Vernacular Politics (2002, winner of the 2003 Douglass Prize for best book in Europeanist anthropology) and Money Makes Us Relatives: Women’s Labor in Urban Turkey (second edition, London: Routledge, 2004). Many of her books have been translated into Turkish.

Prof. White was Distinguished Visiting Professor, at Stockholm University Instiutute for Turkish Studies for 2013-2014.