Alexandra Frankel, a Master’s student in Anthropology, has been awarded an Arit Summer Fellowship for Intensive Advanced Language Study at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, Awarded by the American Research Institute in Turkey (hosted at University of Pennsylvania).

This fellowship will enable Ali not only to continue improving her Turkish, but also to spend some of her time this summer on her ethnographic research project studying gendered political subjectivities and women’s bridal rituals.