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Perin Gürel

Associate Professor of American 91ÊÓÆµ and Gender 91ÊÓÆµ; Director of the Gender 91ÊÓÆµ Program

American 91ÊÓÆµ

Office
310J O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Email
pgurel@nd.edu

Associate Professor of American 91ÊÓÆµ and Gender 91ÊÓÆµ; Director of the Gender 91ÊÓÆµ Program

  • The U.S. and the Middle East
  • Culture and Foreign Policy
  • Islam and Muslims in Popular Culture
  • Humor and Politics
  • Islam and Feminism
  • Gender in International Relations

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Gürel in the News

By Perin Gürel, Associate professor of American 91ÊÓÆµ, University of Notre Dame.

By Perin E. Gürel, an associate professor of American studies and the director of gender studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Author Perin Gurel of The Limits of Westernization gives a primer in the love hate relationship between Turkey and the US, what it means and why it’s important.

“This photoshoot will function as a Rorschach test, as all Americans, Muslim and non-Muslim, will see their own identities and politics reflected in how they interpret the images,” says Perin Gurel, assistant professor of American studies at the University of Notre Dame, who studies gender and race in popular culture. 

The Times

Perin Gurel, a professor of American studies at the University of Notre Dame and author of a book on Turkish popular perceptions of the US, said there was an “ambivalent or flexible strain in Turkish political thought and foreign policy that allows for sharp ideological pivots away from and towards the West”.