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Audrey M. Wozniak is an ethnomusicologist who writes about discursive and material constructions of kinship and the state in urban diasporic contexts, particularly those of Turkey and China. Her research interests also include sociolinguistics, technology, state surveillance, and censorship. She has been conducting ethnographic and archival fieldwork in Istanbul and London since 2015, examining how the concept of discipline has shaped Turkish civil society through examining Turkish classical music choirs in the country and its diaspora. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnomusicology at Harvard University and the Joint Fellow in Heritage Studies at Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations and the British Institute at Ankara. She has also received a Fulbright-Hays DDRA Grant, an Orient-Institut Scholarship, and Cynthia Verba Merit Scholarship to support her research. 

Wozniak is an accomplished violinist and performer of Turkish and Western art music and her participation as a musician is an integral part of her research. For more information about her musical experience, please visit this link.

Curriculum Vitae

 

Lecture for the British Institute at Ankara, 2022

Academic Publications

• "Producing and Transgressing the Family: Intimate Technologies, State Surveillance, and China’s Uyghurs." Lidé města / Urban People, 23, no. 2 (2021): 135-166. 
• "State Insecurities and Xinjiang’s Uyghurs: A Critical Discourse Analysis of People’s Republic of China State Council White Papers on Xinjiang." Master's Dissertation. Department of Media and Communication, London School of Economics, 2016. 
• "River-Crabbed Shitizens and Missing Knives: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Trends in Chinese Language Use Online as a Result of Censorship." Applied Linguistics Review. Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 97–120, ISSN (Online) 1868-6311, ISSN (Print) 1868-6303, DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2015-0005, February 2015.
• "Mutual Empowerment? Examining the Power Relationship Between Overseas Filipino Workers and the Motherland." Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs 2.1, Pages 98-121. Spring/Summer 2015.
• "Orientalism, Regionalism, Cosmopolitanism: Musical Manifestations of Cultural Hybridity." Honors Thesis Collection. Paper 225. Wellesley College, 2014.
• “River-Crabbed Shitizens and Missing Knives: Linguistic Variation in Chinese Language Use Online As a Result of Censorship.” International Relations Council Journal, Wellesley, MA, Spring 2013.

Essays, Reviews, and News Articles

• “Observations on Two Turkish Classical Music Choir Concerts.” ANAMED Blog, Koç University, March 2022. 
• “On the Road with the Ensemble.” Silk Road Project, 21 November 2014. 
• “Hyeyoon Park plays Bach.” TimeOut Hong Kong, 13 October 2014. 
• “Chinese Coal Fires: The Hidden Story.”  China Dialogue, Beijing, China, August 19, 2013.
• “Badminton’s Bad Girl Defends Trying to Lose Olympic Match.” ABC News, Beijing, China, August 2, 2012.
• “Fake It Till They Make It: Chinese Agencies Manufacture Phony Applications to US Colleges.” ABC News, Beijing, China, July 27, 2012.
• “In Beijing, Doubt Grows as Thousands Struggle to Rebuild After Floods.” ABC News, Beijing, China, July 26, 2012.
• “Vatican Threatens to Excommunicate Chinese Priest Backed By Beijing.” ABC News, Beijing, China, July 5, 2012.
• “Apple Pays $60 Million for iPad Name in China.” ABC News, Beijing, China, July 2, 2012.
• “Sex Toy Fools Entire Chinese Village.” ABC News, Beijing, China, June 19, 2012.
• “How China’s Forced Abortion Policy Hits Two Women.” ABC News, Beijing, China, June 14, 2012. (Contributor).
• “China Set for Manned Space Launch This Month.” ABC News, Beijing, China, June 11, 2012.
• “China Forbids International Tourism to Tibet Indefinitely.” ABC News, Beijing, China, June 7, 2012.
• “Tiananmen Square Quietly Remembered 23 Years Later.” ABC News, Beijing, China, June 4, 2012.

Previous Blogs

• On Global Harmony: "In which Audrey Woźniak chronicles a year as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow exploring multiculturalism in the musical cultures of China, Indonesia, and Turkey." [2014-2015]
• The Guangzhou Blog: "In which Audrey Woźniak chronicles twelve weeks of living and learning in China as an intern for the State Department at the U.S. Consulate General in Guangzhou" [Summer 2013] ***The Guangzhou Blog is currently locked.
• The Beijing Blog: "In which Audrey Woźniak chronicles ten weeks of living and learning in China as an intern for ABC News." [Summer 2012]
• The Tokyo Blog: "In which Audrey Wozniak describes the pre-, post-, and the in between of living in Japan for a year." [2007-2008. My very first blog, in which Audrey chronicled her time as the only foreign exchange student in an all-Japanese girls high school.]