Bahar Gursel Editor

Tanfer Emin Tunc is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. She received her BA, MA and PhD in American History, and an Advanced Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She specializes in US women’s history and literature; the history of medicine, sexuality, and reproduction; and American cultural studies. Tanfer Emin Tunc is the author of six books and over fifty book chapters, reference book entries, book reviews, and journal articles, most of which have appeared in internationally-renowned publications such as Rethinking History, Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, Foreign Literature Studies, Women’s History Review, Historical Journal and Journal of Women’s History.
Bahar Gursel is an Assistant Professor at the Department of History at Middle East Technical University (M.E.T.U.) in Ankara, Turkey, where she currently teaches US cultural history, Cold War history and the history of civilization. Bahar Gursel conducted research and taught at the University of Turin in 2008-2009 as a member of an urban studies group. She is the author of a number of essays on US and Italian history. Her areas of interest include the diplomatic, social and cultural history of the United States, modern Italian history, the cultural history of the Republic of Turkey (1930-1960), immigration history, urban history, visual culture and film studies.