Dr. DiCarlo comes to the Entrepreneurship Division with expertise in qualitative research methods and analysis, ethnographic research and writing, and discourse analysis. Her research areas include transnational migration, consumption and sustainability, entrepreneurship and creative economy, and the intersection of ethnographic research and social entrepreneurship. She is the recipient of two Fulbright Research Fellowships and the author of Migrating to America: Transnational Social Networks and Regional Identity among Turkish Migrants (IB Tauris). Her current projects include social impact assessment of environmental initiatives in Turkey, and examining state support of, and public reactions to Ebru: Reflections of Cultural Diversity in Turkey.
Dr. DiCarlo teaches the off-shore course "Social Responsibility through Eco-Enterprise in Turkey," applied research methods and qualitative data analysis, and discourse analysis. She is currently developing courses on social impact assessment methods. When she isn't teaching at Babson, she is probably somewhere in Turkey.