2019
President's Equity Fund ($7,208 to curate art exhibition, The Other Is Not)
The Evergreen State College

2018-2019
Sponsored Research Grant ($3,500 for book project, Art Since Gezi)
The Evergreen State College

2012
Postdoctoral Fellowship (alternate/finalist)
National Endowment for the Humanities / American Research Institute in Turkey
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​2010-2011
Doctoral Dissertation Writing Fellowship ($6,000)
Institute of Turkish Studies
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2008-2009
Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship ($10,000)
Turkish Cultural Foundation
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2008
Research Travel Grant, University of California Humanities Center (for doctoral research travel). University of California, Irvine.
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2008
Research Travel Grant, International Center for Writing and Translation (to research in Istanbul, Turkey). University of California, Irvine.
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2007
Research Travel Grant, International Center for Writing and Translation (to research in Istanbul, Turkey). University of California, Irvine.

2007-08
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (by nomination), Department of Film and Media Studies. University of California, Irvine.

2007
Graduate Student Fellow, University of California Humanities Research Center. To attend the Seminars in Experimental Critical Theory.
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2007
Conference Travel Grant, University of California Humanities Center. University of California, Irvine (to present at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Chicago, USA).
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2006
Conference Travel Grant, University of California Humanities Center. University of California, Irvine (to present at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Vancouver, CA).

2005
Individual Research Grant, University of California Humanities Center (to start a modern Turkish films collection). Department of Film and Media Studies. University of California, Irvine.

2004-05
Robyn Shikiya Memorial Graduate Award in Visual Studies (awarded by nomination). University of California, Irvine.

2004-05
University of California Regents Fellowship.

2004
Honorary membership, Phi Beta Kappa.
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2003-04
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for the Arts. University of California, Riverside.

Nov 2016
“Collecting as an Act of Stubborn Resistance: Time and Passing in Pelin Esmer’s Ten to Eleven.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association. Pasadena, California.
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June 2015
“Gender-Neutral Language in Education." Round-table workshop with James Spady and Kristi Wilson. Soka Education Conference, Soka University of America. Aliso Viejo, California.
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March 2014
“New Turkish Cinema and the Capture of Everyday Life in the City.” Constructing the Self, Constructing the City. American Comparative Literature Association. New York University. New York, New York.
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March 2012
“I Hope You Love and Aren’t Loved Back: Abandonment and Self-Alienation in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Three Monkeys (2008)” Aesthetic Responses from the Black Sea. American Comparative Literature Association. Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island.
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March 2011
“Making Time Strange: Temporality and Estrangement in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Clouds of May (1999) and Climates (2006).” Temporality in Film. American Comparative Literature Association. Vancouver, Canada.
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March 2011
“Crystals of Time in Fatih Akın’s The Edge of Heaven.” German Studies Caucus. Northeast Modern Language Association. Rutgers University. New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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Nov 2010
“The ‘Dead Spaces’ of Fatih Akın’s Migrant Cinema.” Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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May 2010
“The City as Archive: Istanbul’s Atatürk Cultural Center.” Annual History and Theory Conference. University of California, Irvine. Irvine, California.
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April 2009
“On the Ruins of Myself: Istanbul as Phantasmagoria.” 12th Annual Cultural Studies Symposium. Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.
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April 2008
“Images of Home and Diaspora: Fatih Akın’s Istanbul.” 15th Annual (dis)junctions Conference: Where the Streets are Renamed. University of California, Riverside. Riverside, California.
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March 2007
“Alternative Modes of Resistance: Melancholic Interludes and Sound Bridges in Fatih Akın’s 2004 film, Head On.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Chicago, Illinois.
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March 2006
“Visions of Temporality and the Other in Sorak’s film G.O.R.A.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
Vancouver, Canada.
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