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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii Almost all of the initial supporters of this book and many more assisted me through the long journey to the finish line. I received institutional support at the book’s earliest stage from New York University’s Graduate School of Arts and Science. I received support from the Professional Staff Congress—CUNY Research Award Program, release time from the College of Staten Island, and an Andrew Mellon seminar fellowship at the Humanities Center of the CUNY Graduate Center. I am grateful for all these gifts of time. Within the vast world that is CUNY, many helped me create a productive home: Dean Francisco Soto at the College of Staten Island strove to provide the conditions to facilitate scholarship and helped with resources at critical times. Janet Ng, exemplary department chair and friend, provided the spirit and support faculty need in balancing teaching and research. My colleagues in the English department and the Women’s Studies and Science, Letters, and Society programs provided a collegial and supportive environment. At the Humanities Center, the participants in the Mellon seminar “Divided Loyalties” helped me reformulate the book conceptually by giving me valuable feedback on drafts that turned into the initial chapters : I am especially grateful for the comments of Alisa Salomon, Sarah Chin, Amy Chazkel, Ida Susser, Aiobheann Sweeney, and Yasmin Ramírez. From the book’s beginnings at New York University’s Comparative Literature department till its end, Sylvia Molloy and Jennifer Wicke provided encouragement and counsel. I am incredibly lucky and thankful to have as teachers, role models, and friends these formidable people and scholars. Richard Sieburth patiently taught, encouraged, and supported my interests through many years with the kind of engagement, insight, and enthusiasm that is truly rare. Shari Huhndorf has read significant parts of the book, offered terrific comments, and listened me to talk (and talk and talk) about this project for a long time. I am grateful to Shari for her exceptional generosity as a friend and colleague. I also thank those others whose friendship and work nourished my personal and professional life from near and far: Sonia Bakar, Anita Gilodo, Aylin Gözübüyük, Jizel Kohen, Helen Lee, David Leeming, Ilana Navaro, Liz Ornston, Arzu Öztürkmen, and Kerri Sakamoto. I wrote the last stage of this book in Toronto. I thank Ato Quayson, the director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto, for graciously hosting me as a visiting scholar at the Centre during the – academic year. I am grateful to Kerri Sakamoto, Kathy Wazana, Richard Fung, Tim McCaskell, Ratiba Hadj-Moussa, and Valentina Napolitano Quayson for making me feel welcome in this city. Thanks to their friendship and hospitality, Toronto, along with Istanbul and New York, is another home now. Many thanks to reviewers at the University Press of New England for their exceptionally engaging reading of the manuscript and helpful suggestions. I also thank my editor Richard Pult, for shepherding the book so smoothly through the publication process, and Peter Fong and Ann Brash, who were very helpful and responsive during the production stage. Robert Latham held my hand, listened, and encouraged me through many ups and downs. Patiently and caringly, he shared this journey more than anyone. I am thankful for his love, confidence, commitment, and insights (the nudging helped too). Without my mother Beki Kandiyoti’s exceptional sense of humor and devoted, extensive child care, it would have been impossible for me to continue my work; I am grateful for all the labor—and all the laughs. I have grown by raising my children Alegra Kandiyoti and Shiran Kandiyoti, who always inspire me with their creativity, true beauty, and the joy that is in their very names. They made many things possible, including this book. An early version of chapter  was published as “Comparative Diasporas: The Local and the Mobile in Abraham Cohen and Alberto Gerchunoff” in Modern Fiction Studies . (): –. viii Acknowledgments ...

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