Staff profile

Ms Senem Yekenkurul

Early Career Development Fellow

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Social Sciences

Social Sciences Building Room 422, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons - La Trobe)

Membership of professional Associations

Australian Anthropological Society

Area of study

Anthropology

Brief Profile

Senem’s research focuses on the lives of adult children of immigrants from diverse backgrounds. She is interested in how folktales, family stories and histories contribute to the cultural construction of identity. She is currently the subject coordinator of first year anthropology.

Research interests

Migration

- Ethnicity

- Narrative construction of identity

- Second generation identity

Social and Cultural Anthropology

- Folktale and storytelling

Teaching Units

ANT1CAG – Introduction to Anthropology: Culture and Globalisation ANT1FET – Our Global Village: Introduction to Anthropology  

Recent Publications

  • Yekenkurul, Senem (2011) ‘Broken Narratives in the Immigrant Folktale’ Current Narratives (3): 54-63.