In May, I wrote an article on the liminality of the pandemic. For better or worse, it had a more uplifting tone than how I’ve felt about the situation in the months since. It was a period when, for the first time, we all saw each other’s living rooms via…

Written by: Dr. Aybil Goker, Dr. Şölen Şanlı Vasquez, Kerem İnal, M.A. The Turkish-American community is not large in the U.S. and will not make a drastic change in the outcomes of the 2020 presidential race, however, thousands of Turkish-Americans are voting this year. To answer the question of who…

We are living in the in-between. The coronavirus pandemic is creating what’s known as a liminal phase in our lives — a time where we’re neither here nor there. It’s like we’re stuck at an airport, but instead of traveling between Istanbul and New York, we’re in hanger between our…

This period of pandemic is demonstrating one striking sociobiological fact: We are tangled. You’ll notice I didn’t say we are “united” or we are “one” as currently, we deserve neither the beauty of these concepts nor their stark uniformity. The Tangled Tree On a recent trip to Boston, I purchased a book from…

Last year, for my first Thanksgiving in the USA, I cooked Thanksgiving dinner without ever having eaten it before. As an anthropologist, I should’ve known better. A couple of weeks before the big day, I searched for recipes on websites, checked YouTube channels and flipped page after page of cooking…