Bridget Purcell is a cultural anthropologist whose research teaching interests include political anthropology, critical urban studies, medical anthropology, and political ecology. She has authored several articles as well as a book manuscript, titled The City the Hides Itself: Turkish Geographies of the Otherwise. Principle theoretical approaches include political phenomenology and feminist cultural theory. Geographic interests include Turkey, Syria, and the greater Levant.
Selected publications:
Purcell, B. 2017. “Rebellious Matter: The Poetics of Ritual Space in a Turko-Syrian Border Town” in J. Biehl and P. Locke (Eds.) Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming. Duke University Press.
Purcell, B. 2017. “The House Unbound: Refiguring Gender and Domestic Boundaries in Urbanizing Southeast Turkey.” City & Society 29:1.
Purcell, B. 2019. “Urbanism” in H. Callan (Ed.) The Wiley Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Wiley-Blackwell.
