Can Dalyan

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Education

Ph.D. Cornell University, Anthropology

M.A. Cornell University, Anthropology

M.A. Koç University, Comparative Studies in History and Society

Research Interests

Climate adaptation

Conservation governance

Plant studies

Housing and environmental justice

Critical health studies

Modern Turkey and the Middle East

Courses Taught at College of Charleston

Introduction to Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology

Environmental Anthropology

Politics of Health in the Middle East

Introduction to Cultural Sustainability

 Publications

Forthcoming with Rojas, David. “Food in the Anthropocene.” In Handbook of the Anthropology of Food, edited by Clare A. Sammells. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2024. “To Have and to Hold: Understanding Cultural and Biological Property in Turkey” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Vol 44, No 1: 18-33.

2021. “Latent Capital: Genebanking as Investment in Climate Change Futures.” In The Work that Plants Do: Life, Labour and the Futures of Vegetal Economies, edited by Marion Ernwein, Franklin Ginn, and James Palmer. London: Transcript.

2019. “Care of the Species: Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity:” The Journal of Peasant Studies 46 (5): 1115–18.