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Canan Bolel is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington specializing in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures. She earned her Ph.D. in Near Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Washington in 2022. Her research focuses on the social and cultural histories of Sephardic communities during the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic, with a particular emphasis on marginalized Sephardic Jews in late Ottoman Izmir. Bolel is also a literary translator, working on translations from Ladino, Ottoman Turkish, and Turkish into English. She has initiated a collaborative translation project with Dr. Laurent Mignon to translate works of Beki L. Bahar, a noted Turkish female playwright, and is currently engaged in translating Sevim Burak's Osmanlı Bankası. Bolel's academic qualifications include an MSc in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and M.A. and B.A. degrees in Political Science and Economics respectively from Sabanci University. She has received several awards, including the Translation Studies Course Development Grant in 2023 and the New Horizons Jewish Studies Graduate Essay Prize in 2022.
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