Esra Özyürek is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California San Diego. Her academic interests include secularism and Islam, ideologies of state and citizenship, public and private, alternative modernities, social and cultural memory, language ideology, gender, and economic and natural crisis. Her regional areas are Turkey and Middle East. Among her forthcoming works are the book Nostalgia for the Modern: Privatization of State Ideology in Turkey and the edited collection Politics of Public Memory: Production and Consumption of the Past in Turkey. She has also edited Remembering and Forgetting: Social Memory in Turkey. (in Turkish; 2001).