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Bab眉l, E. M. "The Paradox of Protection:  Human Rights, the Masculinist State and the Moral Economy of Gratitude in Turkey"  American Ethnologist.  February 2015. 41(1):  116-130.


Bab眉l, E. M. 鈥淭raining Bureaucrats, Practicing for Europe: Constitutive Bureaucratic Imaginaries in Turkey鈥 Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Spring 2012. 35(1):


Bab眉l, E. M. 鈥淪mells Like Translation: An Introduction.鈥 Middle East Section. Yasmin Moll. (ed.). Anthropology News. October 2011. 52(7): 41-42.


Bab眉l, E. M. 鈥淗uman Rights Translations: Reframing the Universal and the International for Bureaucracy in Turkey.鈥 Middle East Section. Emilio Spadola. (ed.). Anthropology News. April 2010. 51(4): 41.


Bab眉l, E. M. "Claiming a Place Through Memories of Belonging: Politics of Recognition on the Island of Imbros." New Perspectives on Turkey. No. 34 (2006): 47-65.


Bab眉l's book Bureaucratic Intimacies (Stanford University Press, 2017) received an honorable mention in the 2019 Biennial Book Award given by the Middle East section of the American Anthropological Association.


Bab眉l's book 鈥淏ureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey鈥 (Stanford University Press, 2017), was awarded the William E. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology by the Society for the Anthropology of Europe. The award is given to the best book published in the past year.


Was invited to speak in a panel organized by the London School of Economics and Political Science Human Rights Center on 鈥淒efending Academic Autonomy in Turkey,鈥 which took place on April 28, 2021. 


Was recently interviewed by Voices of the Middle East and North Africa on KPFA Radio of Berkeley, CA about government assault on higher education in Turkey. The interview was aired in two parts and can be found here: Part I () & Part II ().