Feride Hatiboglu, a lecturer in Near Eastern languages and civilizations in the School of Arts and Sciences, has been elected to the board of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL) for a two-year term. In her capacity as current president of the American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages (AATT), Dr. Hatiboglu was also a member of the team that developed and published the new Curricular Framework for College-Level Turkish Instruction.

Born in Ankara, Turkey, Dr. Hatiboglu began teaching Turkish at Penn in 2005, and in a few years, the Turkish language program became a successful multi-level language program with elementary, intermediate, advanced, and Ottoman Turkish programs under Near Eastern languages and civilizations (NELC) and a Turkish Cinema class in the Penn Language Center. Dr. Hatiboglu is an active member of the American Research Institute in Turkey.