I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University with research interests in religion, culture, immigration, ethnicity, and political sociology.  My dissertation is a study of religion-state relations in Turkey that explores how civil servants produce official Islamic sermons that are read nationwide during Friday prayers.  I have also studied religious services provided by the Turkish government for its nationals living in Germany, the interaction of religion and ethnicity among Turkish immigrants in the United States, American attitudes toward Islam, and the connection between cognition and religious discourse.