TALIP KUCUKCAN

TALIP KUCUKCAN


Talip Kucukcan
Associate Professor of Sociology
Political, Economic and Social Research Foundation
Resit Galip Cad. Hereke Sok. No: 10
Gaziosmanpasa, Cankaya, Ankara, Turkey
0090 0533 668 9983
tkucukcan@setav.org


Personal data

Date of birth: 1963
Citizenship: Turkish
Languages: English (fluent), German (reading), Arabic (reading)
Work permit in UK: YES


Work experience

2006- Associate Professor of Sociology, Senior Project Director
Employer: Political, Economic and Social Research Foundation, Ankara
Main responsibilities: Co-ordinating and commissioning social and cultural research projects, seeking funds and representing the Foundation on international platforms.

2006- Associate Professor of Sociology, Part-time lecturer
Employer: Istanbul Commerce University, Istanbul
Courses Taught: Communication and Popular Culture; Social Psychology

1999-2006 Associate Professor of Sociology, Research Fellow
Employer: Center for Islamic Studies, Istanbul
Main responsibilities: Conducting fieldwork, writing reports, organizing seminars and workshops, co-ordinating research projects, charing the project commission, lecturing MA, and PhD students.


2000-2002 Associate Professor of Sociology, Part-time lecturer
Employer: Fatih University, Istanbul
Main responsibilities: Lecturing at the Department of Public Administration.
Courses Taught: Sociology; Turkish Society & Culture; Contemporary Social Movements; Citizenship & Political Participation; Globalization; Political Culture and Religion

1997-1998 Research Fellow
Employer: Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, UK
Main responsibilities: Lecturing in courses: Sociology, Ethnic Identity and Youth Culture; and Transnational Movements. Conducting fieldwork, writing reports, presenting papers, occasional lecturing, taking part in seminars, workshops, co-ordination of a research project.

1988-1996 Research Associate
Employer: CIS, Istanbul
Main responsibilities: Carrying out a Ph.D. project on the Turkish diaspora in UK and Europe, representing the Center, collecting materials for the Center library, translation of texts.

1986-1987 Research Assistant
Employer: University of Uludag, Bursa, Turkey
Main responsibilities: Conducting surveys, writing reports, presenting papers and occasional lecturing


Education

1992-1997 PhD in Ethnic Relations & Sociology, University of Warwick, UK

1989-1990 MA in Religious Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

1982-1986 BA in Islamic Studies, University of Uludağ, Bursa, Turkey


Grants and Scholarships

2006 Turkish Religious Foundation research grant for a project on “Religion in the EU”, (60 000 EURO)

2006 Tubitak (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) conference organization grant (10 000 EURO)

2005 Swedish Institute Visiting Fellowship Grant, Stockholm University, July-November 2005, Sweden.

2004 Turkish Research Center funding to work on ‘The Role of Turkish Civil Society Organizations on Turkey-EU Relations: A Case Study of the Netherlands’, 2-16 July 2004, Holland.

2003 University of Utah Middle East Center travel grant to participate a “Workshop on Muslim Diaspora Communities”, 4-5 April 2003, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

2002 International Academy for Freedom of Religion and Belief travel grant to participate in the 2002 Law and Religion Symposium at the Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, on October 6-9, 2002, and Catholic University of America and George Washington University, Washington, D.C., on October 10-11, 2002, USA

2002 The Institute on Religion and World Affairs (IRWA) Summer 2002 Seminar Fellowship on “Challenges of Religion in the Contemporary World”, 10-28 June 2002, Boston University, USA.

2002 Berliner Institute for Comparative Social Research travel grant to participate a conference on “State Policies Towards Muslim Minorities in the European Union”, 2-4 March 2002, Covenry, UK.

2001 Fellowship for Summer Institute 2001/2002 on “Public Spheres and Muslim Identities” European and American Young Scholars' Institutes Program. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Social Science Research Council (New York) and the institutes for advanced studies in Princeton (USA), Research Triangle Park (USA), Stanford (USA), Uppsala (S), and Wassenaar (NL).] Berlin, Germany and Darmouth, USA.

2000 ELIAMEP grant to participate in Halki International Symposium.

1999 Acton Institute of US Travel Award to Prague for a conference participation.

1999 AMSS of UK Travel Award to London for a conference participation

1997-8 Volkswagen Foundation Research Fellowship Award for a two-year project on “State, Education, Civic Culture and Ethnic Youth in Europe” at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, UK.

1996 American Exchange Conference Travel Grant to USA by the University of Warwick for conference participation

1996 The European Association for the Advancement of Social Sciences conference travel grant to Paris

1992-96 TDV PhD Scholarship in UK

1989-90 TDV MA Scholarship in UK

1988 TDV Language Training Award in UK


Publications


Books

- Politics of Ethnicity, Identity and Religion: Turkish-Muslims in Britain, Avebury: Ashgate, December, 1999

- Doğal Afetler ve Din: Marmara Depremi Üzerine Psiko-Sosyolojik Bir Araştırma (Natural Disasters and Religion) (co-authored with Ali Köse), ISAM, Istanbul, 2000

- EuroTurks and Turkey-EU Relations: The Dutch Case, (co-authored with V. Gungor), Türkevi Research Centre, Amsterdam, 2006.


Articles

2007 “Challenges to Political Leadership in Combating Islamophobia”, Muslim Public Affairs Journal, Winter, 2007, pp.75-80.

2006 “Image of Turkey and perception of European Identity Among Euro-Turks in Holland”, Euro Agenda, Year: 5, Issue: 9, No: 2/2006, pp. 225-238 (co-author: Veyis Gungor)

2006 ‘Symbolic Religiosity among the Turkish Youth in Britain’, in Manual Fanzman, Christel Gärtner, Nicole Köck (eds.), Religiösität in der säkularisierten Welt, Wiesbaden: Vs Verlag für Socialwissenschaften, 2006, pp. 333-336.

2005 ‘Multidimensional Approach to Religion: a way of looking at religious phenomena’, Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, Number 10, Spring 2005, pp. 60-70.

2004 ‘The Making of Turkish-Muslim Diaspora in Britain: Religious Collective Identity in a Multicultural Public Sphere’, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Volume 24, No. 2, 2004, pp. 243-258.

2004 ‘Turkey's Identity Options and the Challenges of Turkey's EU Relations’, Insight Turkey, Volume 6, Number 3, July-September 2004, pp. 120-125.

2004 ‘Dominant Discourses and Policies of Multicultural European Countries on National Identity and Religion in Public Schools’ in Milan Mesic (ed.), Perspectives of Multiculturalism: Western and Transitional Countries, FF Press & Croatian Commission for UNESCO, Zagreb, pp. 113-123.

2003 ‘State, Islam and Religious Liberty in Modern Turkey: Reconfiguration of Religion in the Public Sphere’, Brigham Young University Law Review, Volume 2003, No: 2, pp. 475-507.

2003 ‘Sites of National Imagery: Imparting the Dominant Culture through Public Education in Europe’, Journal of Economic and Social Research, Volume 4, No: 2, pp. 95-114.

2003 ‘Modes of Belonging: Articulation of Turkish Youth in Diaspora’ in Ayşe Lahur Kirtunc, A. Silku, K. W. Rose and M. Erdem (eds.), Selves at Home, Selves in Exile, Proceedings of the Seventh Cultural Symposium, Ege University American Studies Association, ASAT, Ege University, Publication of The Faulty of Letters, Izmir, pp. 39-48.

2002 ‘Looking at Religious Education in Secular National Contexts in Western Europe’, Euro Agenda, Vol. 1, Number 2

2000 ‘Articulating identity and belonging: Turkish students’ perception of cultural and religious differences’ Zeitschrift für Turkeistudien, June, No. 1., pp. 125-136

2000 ‘Can Religiosity be Measured: Dimensions of Religious Commitment’ Special Issue of Annual Review of the Faculty of Divinity, University of Uludağ, No. 9, Vol. 9, pp. 461-468.

1999 ‘Ethnicity, Identity and Strategies of Conflict Resolution in a British School: Turkish Pupils in a Comprehensive Public School’, Education et Société Plurilingues, No: 6, Juin, pp. 55-66

1999 ‘Turkish Diaspora in Multicultural Britain’ Zeitschrift für Turkeistudien, 1/99, pp. 123-134

1999 ‘Re-claiming Identity: Ethnicity, Religion and Politics among Turkish Muslims in Bulgaria and Greece’, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 19, No: 1, pp. 59-78

1998 'Community, Identity and Institutionalization of Islamic Education: The Case of Ikra Primary School in North London', British Journal of Religious Education, Vol. 21, No.1, pp. 30-41

1998 'Continuity and Change: Young Turks in London' in S. Vertovec & A. Rogers (eds.), Muslim European Youth, Reproducing ethnicity, religion and culture, Ashgate: Aldershot, pp. 103-132

1998 Turkish Diaspora in Europe: A Short Bibliography, Working Paper, Centre for Political and Legal Studies, Coventry

1996 ‘Encountering the Victims of Genocide: Observations of a Traveler’, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 16, No: 2, pp. 317-318

1995 ‘Some Reflections on the Wahhabiya and Sanusiya Movements’, Hamdard Islamicus, Vol. 18, N0.2, pp. 67-82

1994 ‘An Analytical Comparison of the Aligarh and the Deobandi Schools’, Islamic Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 48-58

1991 ‘Conversion to Islam with Reference to Egypt and Iraq’, Islamic Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 225-232

1990 ‘The Nature of Islamic Resurgence in the Near and Middle Eastern Muslim Societies’, Hamdard Islamicus, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 65-104


Book reviews

1999 Muslim Identity and the Balkan State (by Hugh Pulton and Suha Taji-Farouki).
Turkish and Other Muslim Minorities of Bulgaria (by Ali Eminov), Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 19, No: 2, pp. 339-341.

1999 The Suitcase: Eyewitness from Bosnia and Croatia, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 16-163

1998 The Bridge Betrayed, Religion and Genocide in Bosnia (by Michael Sells), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2, p. 400

1997 The Politics of Oil in the Caucasus and Central Asia (by R. Forsythe), Muslim World Book Review, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 36-38

1997 Russia and Azerbaijan: A Borderland in Transition (by T. Swietochowski), American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 103-105


Interview

1996 ‘The Political Mobilization of Muslims Minorities in Europe’, MERGER Bulletin, Vol. 4, No.1, pp. 10-12


Unpublished Research Reports

1997 Civil Culture in Educatıon: Curricular Frames and Teaching in the School: The British Case, State, School & Ethnicity Research Project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, pp. 30

1998 (with Dr. Thijl Sunier; Sabine Mannitz and Dr. Beate Collet) Transmission of Civil Values Through History: School Practices and Forms of Differentiations, State, School & Ethnicity Research Project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, pp. 77

1997 (with Dr. Thijl Sunier; Sabine Mannitz ND Dr. Beate Collet ) Civic Traditions and Turkish Students: Cultural Convergence and Divergence, State, School & Ethnicity Research Project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, pp. 185


Conference papers

2007 “Politicians, Political Discourse and Islamophobia”, Incitement to Racıal and Religious Hatred: Islamophobia, Council of Europe and Cojep International, Strasbourg, France, 3 July 2007

2007 “Political Participation, Representation of Turks in Europe”, Paper presented at the The European Union, Turks and Political Participation on the 50th Anniversary of the EU Conference, The 6th International Symposium on Turkish Periodicals, Amsterdam, 9 June 2007.

2007 (Panelist) OSCE Conference on Combating Discrimination and Promoting Mutual Respect and Understanding, Follow‑up to the Cordoba Conference on Anti‑Semitism and Other Forms of Intolerance, Bucharest, 7 - 8 June 2007

2007 “Religion, State and Secularism in Modern Turkey”, Paper presented at the Colloquy on Questions related to State and Religion, Commıttee on Culture, Science and Education, European Commission, Strasbourg, 27 February, 2007.

2007 (Panelist), Islamophobia Workshop, Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC), 2 Istanbul, Turkey, 2 February 2007.

2007 (Panelist), “Strategic Vision Group “Russia-Islamic World” Meeting, Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) and SETA, Istanbul, Turkey, January 31 – February 1, 2007.

2007 “Turkish Migrants, Social Capital and Culturalist Discourse in Turkey-EU Relations”, Paper presented at the International Conference on Turkey in Europe: Religion, Politics and the Politics of Religion, Organized by the University of Copenhagen & Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-20 January 2007.

2006 (Convenor & Discussant), “Religion and State in Europe”, Center for Islamic Studies, Istanbul, 9-10 December 2006.

2006 (Discussant), International Conference on Religious Institutions and Education in the Process of European Union, Istanbul, 17-19 November 2006.

2006 “Models of State-Religion Relations: The Case of Turkey,” The Thirteenth Annual International Law and Religion Symposium on the 1981 U.N. Declaration on Religious Tolerance and Non-Discrimination: Implementing Its Principles after Twenty-five Years, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Brigham Young University and the International Academy for Freedom of Religion and Belief, Provo, Utah, October 1-4, 2006

2006 “Managing Religious Diversity in Turkey: The Past and the Present,” Religious Freedom and World Peace, Brigham Young University and the Columbia University, The United Nations Building, New York City, New York, 5-6 October 2006

2006 “Modernization, Secularization and Religion in Europe and Turkey”, Transatlantic Dialogue on Religion and Politics: Concepts, Definitions, and Trends, The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, The Brookings Institution Washington, D.C., 7 July 2006.

2006 (Moderator and Panellist) International Conference on Muslims in Europe, Istanbul 1-2 July 2006.

2006 (Discussant) International Symposium on New Perspectives in Human Rights, Mazlum-Der Association and Edam, Istanbul, 27-29 May 2006.

2006 “Challenges to Political Leadership in Combating Islamophobia”, Paper presented at The Second Roundtable Meeting on Representation of Muslims in Public Discourse, organized by The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Warsaw, Poland, 9 May 2006.

2006 “Turkish Civil Associations in Europe and Turkey-EU Relations”, International Symposium on the Changes and Transformations in the Socio-Economic and Political Structure of Turkey within The EU Negotiations, Dumlupinar University, Kutahya, Turkey 15-17 March, 2006.

2006 “Freedom of Religion in Turkey”, Conference on The Changing Face of International Religious Freedom Issues: Challenges Twenty-Five Years After Adoption of the UN’s 1981 Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief”, Salt Lake City, Utah, 28-31 January 2006.

2005 “Religion and Civil Society Building: Views from the Muslim World”, International Symposium on Religion: Source for Human Rights and Development, ICCO, CORDAID and Institute of Social Studies, Soesterberg, Netherlands, 6-8 September 2005.

2005 “Islamic Institutions and Social Change in Tatarstan: Rediscovery of Religious Heritage and Muslim Identity”, The Second International Symposium on Islamic Civilisation in Volga-Ural Region, IRCICA, Kazan, Tatarstan, 23-25 June 2005.

2005 (Panellist) “Islam, Democracy and the Middle East”, International Conference on Democracy and Global Security, The Turkish National Police Academy, Istanbul, 9-11 June 2005.

2005 “Muslim Presence in the West: A Challenge or an Opportunity for Dialogue and Co-existence?”, The International Conference on Islam and Dialogue, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 29-30 April 2005, Wisconsin, USA.

2004 “Turkish Civil Associations as Social Capital and Their Impact on Turkey-EU Relations”, Paper presented at a conference on Turkish Civil Society Organizations, Integration and the EU, University of Amsterdam and Turkish Research Centre, 13-14 October 2004, Amsterdam, Holland.

2003 “Policies and Practices of Multicultural European Countries on National Identity and Religion in Public Schools”, paper presented at the International Conference on “Experiences and Perspectives of Multiculturalism: Croatia in Comparison with Other Multicultural Societies”, Unesco & International Centre of Croatian Universities, 9-12 November 2003, Dubrovnik, Croatia

2003 “Transition from Empire to Republic: Secularization, Islam and Non-Muslims in Modern Turkey”, paper presented at the International Conference on “Religious Change in Pluralistic Contexts”, organized by the Leiden Institute for the Study of Religions (LISOR) in cooperation with the Leiden Center for Asian, African and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), Leiden, The Netherlands, 28-30 August 2003

2003 “Turkish Muslim Diaspora in Secular Europe”, paper presented at the international “Workshop on Muslim Diaspora Communities”, 4-5 April 2003, University of Utah Middle East Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

2003 “Religious Beliefs and Attitudes among the Turkish Youth in Diaspora” paper presented at the “2nd Youth and Education Symposium”, University of Uludağ, 18-20 April 2003

2003 “Varieties of Islam in Modern Europe: Symbolic Religiosity among the Turkish Youth in Britain”, paper presented at an International Conference on "Religiosity in the Secularized World”, 12th Annual Conference of the Arbeitgemeinschaft Objektive Hermeneutik e.v., 21 To 23 March 2003, Frankfurt Am Main/Germany.

2002 “State, Religion and Religious Liberty in Turkey”, paper presented at the 9th International Law and Religion Conference on “New Impulses in the Interaction of Law and Religion”, Brigham Young University October 5-9, 2002, Utah, USA

2002 “Modes of Belonging: Articulation of Turkish Youth in the Diaspora”, paper presented at the the 7th Cultural Studies Symposium on “Selves at Home, Selves at Exile: Stories of Emplacement and Displacement”, May 8 - 10 , 2002, Eğe University, Faculty of Letters, Izmir, Turkey

2002 “State Policies towards Muslims Minorities in Europe”, paper presented at a conference “State Policies Towards Muslim Minorities in the European Union”, Berliner Institute for Comparative Social Research and Warwick University, 2-4 March 2002, Covenry, UK.

2001 ‘Cultural Identities in Contact: A Challenge for Co-existence in Turkish & European Relations”, paper presented at conference on “A Critical Approach to Europe”, organized by Association des États Généraux des Étudiants de l'Europe, 24-25 October 2001, Ankara, Turkey

2001 “Perceiving Natural Disasters, The Case of Marmara Earthquake”, paper presented at “The International Symposium on the Psycho-sociological Consequences of 1999 Marmara Earthquake”, University of Sakarya, 3-4 May 2001, Sakarya, Turkey

1999 “Religious Pluralism, Multiculturalism and Muslim Minority in the United Kingdom”, paper presented at a conference on “Toward a Free and Virtuous Society in Europe”, organized by The Acton Institute and Civic Institute, 2-5 September, Tepla, Czech Republic

1999 “Constructing National Imagery and Imparting the Dominant Culture in Europe”, paper presented at “The First Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists”, 6-8 September, London, UK

1998 “Ethnicity, Identity and Strategies of Conflict Resolution in a British School: Turkish Pupils in a Comprehensive Public School”, paper presented at the Biannual Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, 4-7 September, Frankfurt, Germany

1998 “Changing Meaning of Cultural Identity among the Second Generation Turkish Youth”, paper presented at the Euroconference No.23 Small Migration Systems, organized by Das Berliner Institut für Vergleichende Sozialforschung e.V., 18-21 June, Sintra, Portugal

1998 “Towards a Symbolic Religious Attachment among Turkish Youth in England”, paper presented at the “Religion and Locality Conference”, organized by the Department of Religion and Theology, University of Leeds, 8-10 September, Leeds, UK

1996 “Discourses of Turkish-Islamic Organizations on Religious Belonging”, paper presented at a conference on “Collective Identity and Symbolic Representation”, organized by the European Association for the Advancement of Social Sciences 3-6 July, Paris, France

1996 “Turkish Migration to Western Europe: Issues and Challenges” paper presented at the Euroconference No. 15 on Theories of Migration, organized by Das Berliner Institut für Vergleichende Sozialforschung e.V., Berlin, Germany, 6-8 September


Published conference reports

1999 ‘Religion and Locality’, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 11, pp. 68-71

1996 ‘Religion and Nationalism’, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 424-428

1994 ‘Material Culture in Central Asia and the Middle East’, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 444-446

1993 ‘Islam in Europe’, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 431-434

1992 ‘Islam and Democracy’, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 277-279


Newspaper comments

“Turkish Diaspora and Euro-Islam”, The New Anatolian, 4-5 March, 2006.

“Euroturks: Turkey’s Social Capital in Europe”, The New Anatolian, 25-26 February, 2006.

“Turks in Germany: At the margins or at the periphery?”, The Turkish Daily News, 27 March 2006.

“Muslims in Europe: a misconstrued community”,The New Anatolian, 3 April 2006.

“Understanding state, society and religion in Turkey (I)”, The New Anatolian, 27 April 2006.

“Understanding state, society and religion in Turkey (II)”, The New Anatolian, 28 April 2006.

“Challenges to Political Leadership in Combating Islamophobia”, The New Anatolian, 18 May 2006.