Feray J Baskın

Associate at LCSS & PhD Candidate in (Linguistic) Anthropology, Indiana University

Feray J. BASKIN is a doctoral candidate in (Linguistic) Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University, USA. She has two masters’ degrees in French linguistics; one from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and one from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. For her M.A. thesis (titled Du céfran à l’envers ‘backwords French’) from the University of Leiden she analyzed the uses of ‘verlan’, a slang language and identity marker, popular in France among youth in housing project neighborhoods. Her dissertation research focuses on the correlation between language maintenance and/or shift and integration in the context of Turkish immigrants and their offspring in France. Ms. Baskin has taught French beginner and advanced level classes at IU. She has also taught the I100, introductory course to International studies in the department of International studies at Indiana University. Ms. Baskin is also a steering committee member of the Many Faces of Human Trafficking Study Group at IU.

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Western Europe and Western Asia (in particular France and Turkey respectively)

Topical Interests: Linguistic identity, migration studies, gender, language policy, sociolinguistics, multilingualism, discourse analysis, globalization.

Education:

Anthropology PhD 2011-Present.

M.A., French Linguistics 2007: Indiana University

M.A., French Linguistics and Literature 2005: Universiteit van Leiden, the Netherlands.