Ayşe Durakoglu Wins 2022 Middle Eastern Studies Program Young Scholar Prize

June 27, 2022

Ayşe Durakoğlu

Ph.D. student Ayşe Durakoglu was awarded the 2022 Middle Eastern Studies Program Young Scholar Prize for her paper, “Food, National Identity and Culinary Tourism: The Case of Go Türkiye Tourism Platform in Turkey. In the paper she provides a fascinating analysis of the very recently launched national foods section of Turkey’s new tourism website, Go Türkiye, and how local and regional foods are used to produce, define and advertise a Turkish national cuisine, commensal tradition, terroir and identity for both global and Turkish publics.