Suzy Hansen
New America (ASU Future Security) Fellow, 2020
Suzy Hansen is the author of From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan, which was published in April 2026. She is the author of Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction and the winner of the Overseas Press Club’s Cornelius Ryan Award for best nonfiction book on international affairs. Hansen has written for many publications, including The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times Magazine. She lives in New York.
Select Work:
- ‘The Era of People Like You Is Over’: How Turkey Purged Its Intellectuals: The story of how the Erdogan regime set out to destroy the political science school at Ankara University. (New York Times Magazine, 2019)
- Timeless Life in the Grand Bazaar: A history of the rise and fall of Turkey’s great marketplace. (Lapham’s Quarterly, 2019)
- The Erdogan Loyalists and the Syrian Refugees: An exploration of how ordinary Turks are dealing with the consequences of the Syrian refugee crisis, and the primary inspiration for Hansen’s project. (New York Times Magazine, 2016)
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