Date: 	Fri, 1 Dec 1995 11:57:15 -1000
From: Fred Riggs <fredr@hawaii.edu>
To: Zennure Demir <zennure@Bilkent.EDU.TR>
Subject: Re: Perceptions of Indigenous Groups
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951201101913.2448G-100000@ceyhan>
Dear Zennure:  Thanks for your interest -- and I'm glad to know of your 
work.  However, I cannot right now give you any useful feed-back, but I 
am forwarding your message to REVS because someone on the list may have 
specific suggestions for you.  Good luck.  Fred

On Thu, 30 Nov 1995, Zennure Demir wrote:

> Thank you very much for your interpretetions on the subject of ethnicity.
> This semester I am working on Irish American women. Would you please 
> share your ideas with me.
>  I am a master student in Bilkent University at 
> the moment in American 
> > History Programme. I want to do my thesis on "Ethnicity" subject under 
> > the title of "Turkish Immigration to the U.S.". I will try find out 
> why 
> > Turks immigrated to the U.S., why most of them returned back to 
> Turkey. 
> > Are the rest assimilated in the U.S.In what fields they are working at 
> > the moment. I will take the period from the eigteenth century until 
> > present. Of course this is a big period. However this project will be 
> > helpful to Turkish_American Relations.
> > But, I don't know so much infomation on this field.Because this 
> project 
> > should be continued in the U.S. In fact, I have good development in 
> the 
> > beginning of my project. Because I have some messages from some 
> > professors such as David Arnett from USIS who gave me the address of 
> > Prof. Dr. Heath Cowry in Princeton University and also your addres and 
> > also Cecelia Tichi from Vanderbilt University. I have written to some 
> > Universities in the U.S. Duquesne University liked my thesis and sent 
> me 
> > an application form to register their programme on ethniciy and at the 
> > same time do research in the archieves. Altough this is a good chance 
> to 
> > begin my project, I haven't got any scholarships to go to the U.S. I 
> > have been  searching for scholarships, fellowships and fund although I 
> > couldn't find one yet. I will do my Ph.d. on the same subject.
> 
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