Tables of Istanbul is her first movie. It was made possible by grants from the Turkish Cultural Foundation, Institute of Turkish Studies, University of Alaska Anchorage Innovate grant and a Fulbright year in Turkey.
Zeynep Kılıç was born and raised in Turkey. After completing her bachelor’s degree in economics at the Middle East Technical University, she moved to the U.S. to pursue graduate school in 1993. She completed her masters and doctorate degrees in sociology at the Arizona State University. She arrived in Anchorage in the summer of 2008 after fourteen years in the Arizona desert. She is still getting acclimated…
Her earlier work focused on immigration, belonging and citizenship. Lately she has been exploring food and culture as her primary research agenda. She is currently working on her book which builds on the movie. As an associate professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, besides dabbling in film-making and book writing, she teaches sociology classes, dances tango, and adores her husband Wayne who is single handedly renovating her dream home.
Tables of Istanbul is her first movie. It was made possible by grants from the Turkish Cultural Foundation, Institute of Turkish Studies, University of Alaska Anchorage Innovate grant and a Fulbright year in Turkey.
