Feyza Sayman
Email
Phone
734 764 7532Fax
734 763 6743Office
111-C Hatcher North
Ann Arbor, MI
48109-1205
Google Talk
feyza@umich.edu
Turkish Studies Specialist
About
My primary responsibility at the Near East Division/Area Programs is for library materials in Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, and Turkic languages (in Cyrillic, Roman, and Arabic scripts); I also take care of English materials about Turkey, Turkish and Turkic peoples. Besides my main responsibilities in cataloguing, collection development, subject reference and technical assistance, selection, ordering-receiving, and outreach activities, I also manage several of the administrative tasks and electronic timekeeping for Area Programs; train new hourly and regular staff; maintain the Turkish Studies website, AP blog, AP electronic mailing lists, and AP facebook; serve as faculty liaison; and conduct the weekly Turkish Group meetings.
Background
I am a native speaker of Turkish, and I initially studied several Turkic languages (Uzbek, Uighur, Turkmen, and Azerbaijani) as a hobby. I studied Ottoman Turkish with Prof. James Stewart-Robinson, UM Turkish Studies. I studied Uzbek language with Prof. Yavuz Akpinar and with Uzbek language instructor Marianne Kamp, UM Near Eastern Studies.
I hold a B.S. in Mathematics (Physics minor), Istanbul University, Faculty of Sciences.
