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Su Hyeon Cho is a DPhil (PhD) candidate in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. Supervised by Professor Walter Armbrust and Professor Laurent Mignon, Cho focuses on ethnographic research in Hatay, Turkey, examining how food rituals like harisa feasts mediate crises and community resilience.
- Education: Pursuing DPhil at University of Oxford
- Current Affiliation: Orient Institut Istanbul (OIIST)
Research Interests: Cho's work bridges anthropology, cultural studies, and disaster response. Key areas include:
- Post-earthquake community resilience in Turkey's Mediterranean borderlands
- Food rituals as mechanisms for historical memory and identity
- Interplay of ethnicity, religion, and state politics in contested regions
Publication Trends: Recent articles explore harisa feasts in post-crisis contexts (2023-2024), emphasizing foodways as transcultural practices. Earlier work (2019) analyzes identity construction through the Evvel Temmuz festival.
Labs/Teams: Conducts fieldwork with the Orient Institut Istanbul (OIIST), collaborating on cultural heritage projects in Turkey's southern Mediterranean region.
