MEYDA YEGENOGLU


MEYDA YEGENOGLU 
 

                      Section A: Personal Record………………………………………. 4

Section B: Research and academic/professional standing………... 7

Section C: Teaching……………………………………………… 22

Section D: Management and Academic Leadership……………… 25 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

A. PERSONAL RECORD 

Name:    Meyda Yegenoglu 

Date of Birth:   8 January 1959 

Nationality:  Turkish 

Title:    Prof. Dr. 

Mailing address: 

Department of Sociology

Middle East Technical University

06531

Ankara, Turkey

Tel: 90-312-210-5983 (office); 90-312-210-6773 (home)

Fax: 90-312-210-7972

Email: meyda@metu.edu.tr 
 

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

 
1993  PhD in Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz,

            U.S.A. 

      1998 MA in Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A. 

      1985 MS in Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. 

      1981 BS in Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

POSITIONS HELD AND WORK EXPERIENCE 

        2005-Present Professor, Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. 

        1996-2005 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. 

        1994-1996 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. 

        1994 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. 

        1994 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. 

        1993 Lecturer, Women's Studies Program, Oberlin College,

        U.S. A. 

        1992 Instructor, Center for Cultural Studies and Oakes College Core Course, University of California, Santa Cruz,

        U. S. A..  

        1989& 1991  Sociology Board, University of California, Santa Cruz, U. S. A., and  Summer School. 

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS 

        2005 Professor at NOISE Summer School, Organized by Utrecht University Women's Studies,    Linkoping, Sweden September. 

        2005 Senior Associate Member, Oxford University, April-June. 

        2003 Associate Professor, Freie University, Berlin, Germany Spring. 

        2002 Associate Professor, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Spring. 

        1999-2000 Associate Professor,  Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University. 
         

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS 

2008-2009  Fulbright Fellowship 

        2003-2005 Outstanding Faculty, top 20% among the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Middle East Technical University. 

        1999 Outstanding Faculty, top 20% among the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Middle East Technical University. 

        1992-1993 American Association of University Women International Fellowship. 

        1989 Center for Cultural Studies, Graduate Student Researcher for the Postcolonial Representations Group, University of California, Santa Cruz, Fall. 

        1990-1991 Feminist Studies Organized Research Activity, Research Grant, University of California, Santa Cruz, Spring 1992, Winter 1991, Summer 1991, Summer 1990. 

        1988-1993 University of California, Santa Cruz, Non-resident PhD Fellowship 

1987-1988  Fulbright Ph D Scholarship.

 

B. RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL STANDING 
 
AREAS OF SPECIALTY 

Contemporary Social and Cultural Theory, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Feminist Theory, Globalization and Migrancy. Orientalism,  Multiculturalism, Citizenship, Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, Secularism and Role of Religious Identity in Geo-Political Transformations 

PUBLICATIONS 

BOOKS: 

        2003  Sömürgeci Fanteziler: Oryantalist Söylemde Kültürel ve Cinsel Fark  (Metis Yayınları, İstanbul) (translation ofColonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). 

        1998 Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press). 

REPRINTED CHAPTERS FROM COLONIAL FANTASIES: 

        Forthcoming The battle of the veil: Woman Between Orientalism and Nationalism", in David Lodge with Nigel Wood:Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, 3rd Edition (forthcoming) 

        2003  'Veiled Fantasies: Cultural and Sexual Difference in the Discourse of Orientalism', in Reina Lewis and Sara Mills (eds), Feminism and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader, Edinburgh University Press, (reprint of chapter 2 fromColonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism). 

        2002 'Sartorial Fabric-ations: Enlightenment and Western Feminism', in Kwok, Pui-lan and Donaldson E. Laura (eds),Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse, (New York and London: Routledge), pp: 82-99 (reprint of chapter 4 from Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading from Orientalism). 

        2001  Veiled Fantasies: Cultural and Sexual Difference in the Discourse of Orientalism', in Nineteenth Centruy Literature Criticism, Vol. 96, Juliet Byington (ed), (Detroit, Michigan: The Gale Group) pp: 242-259 (reprint fromColonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism). 

EDITED BOOKS: 

        1996 Oryantalizm, Hegemonya ve Kültürel Fark (with Fuat Keyman and Mahmut Mutman İstanbul, İletişim Yayınları)  (Orientalism, Hegemony and Cultural Difference, (co-edited with Fuat Keyman and Mahmut Mutman, İstanbul, İletişim Press).

SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES EDITED:
 

        1997 Feminist Kuram: Bilgi ve Iktidar, Toplum ve Bilim özel sayısı, No75, Kış (Special issue on Feminist Theory: Knowledge and Power, Toplum ve Bilim, No 75, Winter). 

        1992 Orientalism and Cultural Difference, Inscriptions, No 6, (co-edited with Mahmut Mutman), Journal published by the Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. 

ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLES IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS:  

        2007  Sacralization of Secularism in Turkey, Radical Philosophy, No. 145 (September/October) 

        2006  "Inscribing the Other Body" Kvinder, Køn & Forskning (Women, Gender and Research), Vol. 15, No. 4. 

        2006 "The Return of the Religious: Revisiting Europe and Its Others", Culture and Religion Vol. 7:, No. 3, (November). 

        2006  "Inhabiting Other Spaces: Tourists and Migrants in the Postcolonial World", in Matthew Gumpert ed. "Culture and the Arts" Lecture Series: Selected Talks: 2003-2005, (Istanbul, Kadir Has University Press). 

        2005 "Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in a Globalized World', Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1, January. 

        2005 'Avrupa Kimliğinin İdeolojik Arkaplanı' Doğu Batı Dergisi, No. 31, Şubat-Nisan (The Ideological Background of European Identity). 

        2003 "Liberal Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Hospitality in the Age of Globalization," Postmodern Culture, Vol. 13, No. 2, April.  

        2003 'Öteki Mekanda Olmak: Post-Kolonyal Dünyada Göçmenlik ve Turizm", Kültür ve İletişim (Culture and Communication), Vol. 6, No. 2. (Inhabiting Other Spaces: Migrancy and Tourism in the Postcolonial World).  

        2002 "Küreselleşen Dünyada Çokkültürcülük ve Konukseverlik," Toplum ve Bilim, No. 92, Bahar 2002 (Multiculturalism and Hospitality in a Globalizaed World). 

        2001 'Mapping the Present: Interview with Gayatri Spivak', New Formations, No. 45, (December), pp:  9-23 (co-authored with Mahmut Mutman). 

        2001 'Küreselleşme ile Postkolonyallik Arasında', DOMUS M, No. 9, Şubat-Mart 2001.(Between Globalization and Postcoloniality', DOMUS M , No. 9 February-March. 

        2001 'Orient: Site of Sexuality, Dream and Fantasy', The Perfumed Garden: An Indertminable Oscillation Between Orient & Occident, Publication of the Turkish Pavillion, 49th Venice   Biennale. 

        1997 'Emperyal  Özne ve Feminist Söylem', Toplum ve Bilim, No 75, Kış. ('Imperial Subject and Feminist Discourse', Science and Society, No 75,  

        1997 Winter)'Orlan: Gövdenin Dili', Toplum ve Bilim, No. 75, Kış ('Orlan. The Language of the Body', Science and Society, No. 75, Winter). 

        1996 'Kadın ve Siyaset: Eşitliğin Ötesinde', Birikim, No 85, Mayıs ('Woman and Politics: Beyond Equality,' Birikim, No 85, May). 

        1996 'Cultural Studies in the United States and Multiculturalism', Journal of American Studies  of Turkey,  No3, Spring. 

        1995 'Sömürge Sonrası Dünyada Göçmen Kimliği', Mürekkep, Kış--Bahar ('Migrant Identity in the Post-Colonial World,' Mürekkep, Winter-Spring. 

        1995 'Taboo, Art and Sexual Difference: The Image of the 'Monstrous Feminine' in Science Fiction Films', Art and Taboos: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium,  Jale Erzen (ed), Ankara, May. 

        1995 'Tabu, Sanat ve Cinsel Farklılıklar: Bilim-Kurgu Filmlerinde 'Canavar Dişi' İmgesi',    içinde  Sanat ve Tabular: 2 Uluslarası Sempozyum Bildirileri, Jale Erzen (ed), Ankara, 4-6 Mayıs ('Taboo, Art and Sexual Difference: The Representation of the 'Monstrous Feminine' in Science Fiction Films', in Art and Taboo: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium, Jale Erzen (ed), May.. 

        1995 'Oryantalizm ve Milliyetçi Söylem Arasında Kadın ve Peçe Savaşı', Toplum ve Bilim, No 66, Bahar ('Woman Between Orientalism and Nationalist Discourse: The Battle of the Veil, Science and Society, No 66, Spring). 

        1993 'Lifting the Veil: The Discourse of Modernism in Western Feminist Representations of Muslim Woman',Turkish Studies Association Bulletin,  Vol 17, No.1, April. 

        1993 'Milliyetçiliğin Sorunsalı: Üçüncü Dünyada İdeoloji ve Çelişki', Toplum ve Bilim,  No 62, Güz-Yaz (The Problematic of  Nationalism: Ideology and Ambivalence in the Third World', Science and Society, No 62, Spring-Summer). 

        1992 'Supplementing the Orientalist Lack: European Ladies in the Harem', Inscriptions, No.6, 1992 (an earlier print of chapter 3 of Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist reading of Orientalism). 

        1992   Bilimlerde ve Toplumda Postmodernizm', (co-authored with Mahmut Mutman) Birikim, No 89, Ocak  ('Postmodernism in Sciences and Society, (co-authored with Mahmut Mutman), Birikim, No 89, January). 

BOOK CHAPTERS: 

        2005 'From Guest-Worker to Hybrid Immigrant: Changing Themes of German-Turkish Literature', in Daniella Merolla and Sandra Ponzanesi (eds), Migrant Cartographies: Cultural Travellers and New Literatures (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books). 

        1998 'Çokkültürlülük Disiplinlerarasılık mıdır?',  Sosyal Bilimleri Yeniden Düşünnmek: Yeni Bir Kavrayışa Doğru, der Toplum ve Bilim ve Defter Dergileri Ortak Çalışma Grubu, Metis Yayınları, İstanbul ('Does Multiculturalism Mean Interdisciplinarity?', in Rethinking Social Sciences: Towards a New Conception, Toplum ve Bilim and Defter Study Group (ed) Metis Press, Istanbul). 

        1996 'Giriş: Dünya Nasıl "Dünya" Oldu?' (Fuat Keyman ve Mahmut Mutman ile birlikte) içinde Oryantalizm, Hegemonya ve Kültürel Fark, Fuat Keyman, Mahmut Mutman ve Meyda Yeğenoğlu (der), (İstanbul, İletişim Yayınları). ('Introduction: How Has the "World" Been Worlded?', in Orientalism, Hegemony and Cultural Difference, Fuat Keyman, Mahmut Mutman and Meyda Yeğenoğlu (ed), İstanbul,  İletişim Press). 

        1996 'Peçeli Fantaziler: Oryantalist Söylemde Kültürel ve Cinsel Fark', içinde Oryantalizm, Hegemonya ve Kültürel Fark, Fuat Keyman, Mahmut Mutman ve Meyda Yeğenoğlu (der), (İstanbul, İletişim Yayınları) 'Veiled Fantasies: Cultural and Sexual Difference in the Discourse of Orientalism', in Orientalism, Hegemony and Cultural Difference, Fuat Keyman, Mahmut Mutman and Meyda Yeğenoğlu (ed), İstanbul,  İletişim Press). 

WORK IN PROGRESS FOR PUBLICATION: 

        The Janus-Face of Globalization: Migrancy, Hospitality and Hostility : Monograph examining the different and disturbing facets of globalization (collection of earlier essays) for probable submission to Duke University Press.  

                  'Islam, Immigrants in Europe and the New Race Thinking"

                  For probable submission to Race and Ethnic Relations 

        'The Question of the Veil and the Legacies of Orientalism'For probable submission to Interventions 

        'Contrasting Spaces of Tourism and Migrancy'

        For probable submission to Public Culture 

KEYNOTE SPEECHES AND INVITED LECTURES: 
 

        2008 "Islam in the New European Imaginary and the Discourse of Cultural Difference", Lecture presented at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, London, U.K., February 

        2008 "Islam in Europe", Lecture presented at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.,  February. 

        2008 "Veiled Threats: Religion, Visibility and the Limits of Liberal Tolerance", Lecture presented at The Gaze and The Veil: Surveillance and the Legacies of Orientalism conference at Dartmouth College, Hanover, U.S.A., February. 

        2008 "Veiled Threats and Islam in Europe", Lecture presented at the LSE Forum on Religion Seminar Series, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, U.K., February. 

        2008 Spaces of Migrancy and Tourism", Lecture presented at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff School of Management, Cardiff, U.K., February. 

        2007  "Muslim Europeans, European Imaginary and the Limits of Liberal Tolerance", Keynote Speech delivered at the R.A.C.E conference on Transnational Racism and he Right to Have Rights: organzied by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, May. 

        2007  "Muslim Europeans, European Imaginary and the Limits of Liberal Tolerance", Keynote speech delivered at Communication in Pecae and Conflcit in Communication: organzied by Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, Famagusta, North Cyprus, May. 

        2006  'How Does the Third World Become Invisible? The Ethics of Subaltern in Cultural Studies', Lecture presented at the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Seminar Series, Cardiff University, October . 

        2006 'Imperialism and Feminism: Saving Women from Islam', Lecture presented at the Gender and Sexualities Group, Cardiff University, October. 

        2006 'Feminism and Orientalism", Lecture presented at the conference on "New Images of Women of the Middle East", Danish Center for Information on Women and Gender, September. 

        2006 "The Return of the Religious: Revisiting Europe and its Islamic Other", Lecture presented at Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, April. 

        2006  "Inscribing the Other Body", Keynote speech delivered at  the 'Gender, Body and Sexuality" conference, Women's studies Department, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, April. 

        2006 "Turkey as the Islamic Other in the European Union: Different Cultures or Different Religions?", Lecture presented at the Culture Forum at Istanbul, Istanbul, April. 

        2006 "Turkey as the Islamic Other in the European Union: Different Cultures or Different Religions?", Lecture presented at the Graduate Seminar at the Napoli Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, March. 

        2004 'The Becoming European of an Islamic Other: Turkey in the European Union', Lecture presented at the Centre for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, November. 

        2003 "Reading Said without Domesticating the Force of Criticism", Lecture presented at the Edward Said: Critical Perspectives, Symposium organized by the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, December. 

        2003 "The Islamic Other in the European Union: Different Cultures or Different Religions?",    Lecture presented atReligion as Colonial Commodity Conference, Yale University, New  Haven, U.S.A., September. 

        2003 "Feminism and Orientalism: Why Save Women from Islam", Lecture presented the Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Bergen, Norway, September. 

        2001 'Inhabiting Other Spaces: Tourists and Migrants in the Postcolonial World', Beyond Dichotomies: Transgressive Identities and Topographies of  In-Between Spaces (Jenseits der Dichotomien?: Transgressive Identitäten und Topographien der Zwischenräume) conference, University of Trier, Germany, October.  

        2001 'Multiculturalism, Ethics of Hospitality and the Question of Sexual Difference', Lecture presented at theReconsidering Multiculturalism: Feminist Perspectives of Plurality conference, University of Vienna, Austria, June. 

        2001 'Postkolonyal Dünyada Turistik Mekan: Emperyal Nostalji ve Otantisite Söylemi', Hacettepe University, Lecture presented at the Department of Art History, Ankara, May. 

        2001 Comments on Craig Calhoun's "Cosmopolitanism is not Enough: Nationalism, the Public Sphere and Social Solidarity", Nira Yuval-Davis's "Identity, Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging" and Partha Chatterjee's "The Nation in Heterogeneous Time",  at the Nationalism in the 21st Century conference, Bilgi University, İstanbul, Turkey, May. 

        2000 'Orientalism Unveiled,' Lecture presented at the Luncheon Seminar Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University, U.S.A., March 

        2000 'Colonial Fantasies', Presentation and discussion of Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism, at the Colloquium organized Asia Program Colloquim, Washington State University, U.S.A., March. 

        2000 Commentator on the exhibition  'Immigration, Beyond the Passage: Issues in Ethnicity and Cultural Integration', Center for European Studies, New York University (discussion on 'Steam, the Turkish Bath'), U.S.A., March. 

        1999 Commentator on 'Splitting Desire: A Conversation About Sexuality and Repression', at Women's Project and Productions, New York, USA, October. 

        1999  Inhabiting Other Spaces: Tourists and Migrants in the Post-Colonial World', Lecture presented at Colloquim organized by the English Department, Wayne State University, U.S.A., February. 

        1998 'Turistik Mekan: Post-Kolonyal Dünyada Yolculuk ve Başkalaşma,'  ('Touristic Space: Travel and Becoming Different in the Post-Colonial World,') Lecture presented at the  Architecture Association, Ankara, May. 

        1993 'The Battle of the Veil: Women Between Orientalism and Nationalism', Lecture presented at the Department of Sociology Colloquium, University of Oregon, Eugene, U.S.A., May. 

        1992 'Images of the Veil in Western Literature and Arts', Lecture presented at the Southern Exposure Art Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A., May. 

        1992 'Veiled Fantasies: Culture and Gender in the Discourse of Orientalism', Lecture presented at the Women's Studies Program, Oberlin College, Oberlin, U.S.A., April. 

CONFERENCE PAPERS 

        2006 "The Return of the Religious: Revisiting European Orientalism", Paper presented at the In Memory of Edward Said. Symposium on Orientalism, İstanbul Turkey, December. 

        2006 "The Idea of Europe: Christianity, Civilization and the Islamic Other", Paper presented at the World Congress of Sociology, Durban, July. 

        2006 "The Metaphor of the Authentic: Travel from Colonialism to Anthropology and Ethnic Tourism", Paper presented at the World Congress of Sociology, Durban, July. 

        2006 "Turkey as the Islamic Other in the European Union: Different Cultures or Different Religions?", Paper presented at the Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Istanbul, July 

        2003 "The Islamic Other in the European Union: Different Cultures or Different Religions", Paper presented at the Alterity and the Experience of Limits Conference, organized by ISIH International conferences, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey, December. 

        2003 "Postcolonial Migrants and Imperial Tourists", Paper presented at the Cultural Studies in the World Today: The 9th International 'Culture and Power Conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal, November. 

        2002 "Liberal Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Hospitality," Translating Class: Altering Hospitality, conference organized by Congress AHRB Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History, Leeds University, England, June. 

        2001 Respondent on the panel on "Reorienting Female Gaze:....", Modern Language Association, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, U.S.A., December. 

        2001 Comments on Robert Young's "Derrida in Algeria: Deconstruction at the Edge of Empire" and Ato Quayson's "Social Imaginaries in Transition: The Culture Hero in African Literature and Politics" at the Kaleidoscope: Interdiscpilinary Journeys in Culture conference, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, February. 

        2001 'From the Guest-Worker to the Hybrid Immigrant: Changing Themes of of German-Turkish Literature', Writing Europe 2001: Migrant Cartographies, Cultural Tarvellers and New Literatures, Leiden University and Amsterdam University, Holland, March. 

        2000  'Postcolonial Nostalgias: Myths of Homeland and Authenticity', Paper presented at the 3rd International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, , Birmingham, United Kingdom, June. 

        2000 'Displaced Borders of Postcoloniality', Paper presented at the 24th annual meeting of International Association of Philosophy and Literature, City University of New York at Stony Brook, U.S.A., May. 

        1999 'Inhabiting Other Spaces: Tourists and Migrants in the Post-Colonial World', Paper presented at the New World (dis)Orders: Culture, Globalization and Identity, Conference organized by Rutgers University, New Brunswick, U.S.A., February. 

        1998 'Towards a Feminist Reading of Developmentalism', Paper presented as the Annual Convention of theAmerican Sociological Association, San Francisco, U.S.A., August. 

        1998 'Çokkültürlülük Disiplinlerarasılık mıdır?' ('Does Interdisciplinarity Mean Multiculturalism', paper presented at the Rethinking Social Sciences: Towards a New Conception conference organized by the Toplum ve Bilim andDefter Journals Working Group, Istanbul, February. 

        1996  'Islam and Modernity in Turkey: Redefining Tradition Through Veiling', (co-authored with Sharon Bastug), Paper presented at the Middle East Studies Association Annual conference, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A., November. 

        1995 'Dangerous Border of the Post-Colonial Space: The Migrant, The Abject and The Third Term', Paper presented at the Theatres of Decolonization:  Architecture, Urbanism and Agency  conference, Chandigarh, India, January. 

        1995 'Emperyal Feminizm ve Kültürel Fark: Postmodern Antropolojide Etik Sorunu,'  ('Imperial Feminism and Cultural Difference') Paper presented at the 4th Social Sciences Congress, Ankara, Turkey, November. 

        1995 'Reflections on Cultural Studies in the United States', Paper presented at the Conference organized by theAmerican Studies Association of Turkey, Antalya, Turkey, November. 

        1995 'Taboo, Art and Sexual Difference: The Image of the 'Monstrous Feminine' in Science Fiction Films', Paper presented at the Art and Taboos 2nd International Symposium, Ankara, Turkey, May. 

        1994 'Globalization, Migrancy, Abjection', Paper presented at the Colloquim organized by the Department of Sociology and Political Science, METU, Ankara, Turkey. 

        1993 'The Other in the Field of Modern Vision', Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the International Association of Philosophy and Litearture, Pittsburgh, U.S.A., May. 

        1993 'Feminist Discourse and the Colonial Episteme', Paper presented at the Practicing Postmodernisms conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, U.S.A., May. 

        1992 'Feminist Discourse and the Colonial Episteme', Paper presented at the New World Order: Crises and Possibilities conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S:A., November. 

        1992 'The Discourse of Modernism in Western Feminist Representations of Muslim Women', Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Middle East Studies Association, Portland, U.S.A., October. 

        1992 'Lifting the Veil: Western Feminist Discourse and the Project of Enlightenment', Paper presented at the Academic Knowledge and Political Power  conference, University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A., November. 

        1992 'Desiring the Orient: Representations of the Veil and Oriental Woman',  Paper presented at the Theory, Culture and Society's 10th Anniversary Conference, Pittsburgh, U.S.A., August. 

        1992  'Representing the Veiled Other,' Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, U.S.A., August. 

        1992 'Supplementing the Orientalist Lack: European Ladies in the Harem,' Paper presented at the Nationalisms, Sexualities and the Politics of Identity Conference organized by the Feminist Studies Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, May.  

        1992 'Supplementing the Orientalist Lack: European Ladies in the Harem,' Paper presented at the Public Culture conference organized by the Institute on Culture and Society, Pittsburgh, June. 

        1992 'Supplementing the Orientalist Lack: European Ladies in the Harem,' Paper presented at the What is Modern? conference organized by the English Department of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, U.S.A., October. 

        1992 'Desiring the Orient: Representations of the Veil in Orientalist Discourse', Paper presented at the Colloquium organized by the Feminist Studies Research Activities, University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A., February. 

        1991 'Veiled Fantasies', Paper presented at the Culture and Politics of Excess conference organized by the Institute on Culture and Society, Eugene, U.S.A., June. 

        1991 'Knowing the Orient, Unveiling the Women,' Paper presented at The Strategies of Critique VI conference organized by the Department of Social and Political Thought, York University, Toronto, Canada, April. 

 

C. TEACHING

 
COURSES TAUGHT 

    - Contemporary Social Theory

    (upper division undergraduate course)

    - Culture, Identity and Postcolonial theory

    (upper division undergraduate course)

    - Culture, Literature and Society

    (upper division undergraduate course)

- Sociological Theory II

      (graduate seminar)

    - Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction and Feminist Theory (graduate seminar)

    - Middle East Women, Feminism and Orientalism

    (graduate seminar)

    - Current Issues in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory (graduate seminar)

- Globalization and Diasporas

      (graduate seminar)

- Feminist Theory

      (graduate seminar)

- Gender, Race and Class

      (undergraduate course)

  • Orientalism and Feminism

     (graduate seminar) 

  PH.D. DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED 

-Racism in Europe and its Effects on Muslim Immigrants

(in progress) 

-Stateless People and the Policing of Borders of Europe

(in progress) 

-Reformulating Orientalism: Turkey's Relation with Europe and the Rise of Patriotic Nationalism

(in progress) 

-Violence Against Women in the Conflict Zones: the Cases of Kurdish and Bosnian Women

(in progress) 

-A Sociological Analysis of the Discursive Formation of Life Sciences and the Nation-Building Project in Turkey

(completed December 2000). 

MASTER'S THESIS SUPERVISED 

-Cyber Sisters and Modern Muslima: Muslim Women on the Web (in progress) 

-An Analysis of New racism in Europe from a Postcolonial Perspective

(in progress) 

-Memory and Photography

(in progress) 

-European Identity and New Racism

(in progress) 

-Representation of Woman in Iranian Cinema

(in progress) 

-A Poststructuralist Analysis of Cyber Discourse and Computer Technology

(in progress) 

-The Critique of the Discourse of Development and the Population Policies of International Organizations

(in progress) 

-An Analysis of Developmental Governmentality in the Cold War Period

(completed December 2006). 

-Enterpreneurial Practices of Turkish Immigrants in Berlin (completed July 2004). 

-Evaluating Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World: A Case Study of Turkish Top Managers in a Multinational Corporation

(completed July 2004). 

-Social Distinction and Symbolic Boundaries in a Globalized Context: Leisure Spaces in İstanbul

(completed December 2003). 

-Marketing Demographics, Advertising Semiotics: The Case of Akşam Newspaper"

(completed December 2003). 

-The Vigourous Local: Spaces of Entertainment, Hip-Hop Music and the Politics of Resistance in the Age of Globalization (completed September 2003). 

-Orientalism from Travel Literature to the Discourse of Tourism (completed 1998). 

-The Literary Representation of Hybrid Identities: The Case of German-Turks

(completed 1998). 

-The Constitutive Role of German National Identity Formation in the Turkish Migrant's Perception of Self and Other

(completed December 2001). 
 
 
 

 

D. ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP AND MANEGEMENT 

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES, BOARD MEMBERSHIP AND REFEREEING 

Member of the Thematic Network of Women's Studies in Europe (ATHENA) for the Socrates programme of the Europen Commission of the European Union (since 2004). 

2004-2006 Member of the Working Group (under Athena Thematic Network Group) Postcolonial Europe: gender, ethnicity and migration (since 2004).  http://www.athena2.org/postcolonialeurope 

EDITORIAL and OTHER BOARD MEMBERSHIP 

Member of the Teaching Board, International PhD Programme in Cultural and Postcolonial Studies, European School of Advanced Studies, University of Naples.  

Member of the Advanced Thematic Network in European Women's studies—ATHENA (since 2004). 

The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Editorial Board member (Since 2001). 

Feminist Europa, Editorial Board member (Since 2003). 

Westview Press: Politics and Culture series, Editorial Board member (Since 2004). 

REFEREEING FOR RESEARCH GRANTS 

Referee for Tubitak, (Turkish National Science Foundation) for Social Sciences and Humanities Project, December 2006. 

Referee for Tubitak, (Turkish National Science Foundation) for Social Sciences and Humanities Project, August 2006. 

Referee for the 6th Framework, Marie Curie Fellowship, Conferences and Training, European Commission, 2006. 

Referee for the 6th Framework, New and Emerging Science and Technology, European Commission, 2006. 

Referee for the 6th Framework Marie Curie Fellowships, Transfer of Knowledge, European Commission, 2006. 

Referee for the 6th Framework Marie Curie Fellowships, Intra European, Incoming European and Outgoing European Fellowships, European Commission, 2006  

Referee for the 6th Framework Marie Curie Fellowships, Intra European, Incoming European and Outgoing European Felwoships, European Commission, 2005.  

Referee for the 6th Framework Marie Curie Fellowships, Transfer of Knowledge, European Commission, 2005.  

Referee for the 6th Framework, Marie Curie Fellowships, Conferences and Training, European Commission, 2005. 

Referee for the 6th Framework Marie Curie Fellowships, Excellence Chairs and Awards European Commission, 2005. 

Referee for the 6th Framework Marie Curie Fellowships, Transfer of Knowledge Fellowships, European Commission, 2004. 

Referee for the 6th Framework Marie Curie Fellowships, IntraEuropean, Outgoing European and Incoming European Fellowships, European Commission, 2004. 

Referee for the 6th Framework, Integrated Projects, European Commission, 2004. 

REFEREEING FOR JOURNAL ARTICLES

 
Referee for an article submitted to the journal Signs (2006). 

Referee for an article submitted to the journal Signs (2004). 

Referee for an article submitted for the journal  Angelaki (2002).   

Referee for an article submitted to the journal ARIEL (2000). 

Referee for an article submitted to the journal Interventions (2000). 

Referee for an article submitted to the journal Interventions (1998). 

BOOK REFEREEING FOR PRESSES 

Referee for a book submitted to the University of Toronto Press (2006). 

Referee for a book submitted to Cambridge University Press (1998). 

WORKSHOP, SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION 
 
Co-Organizer of lecture series 'Kaleidoscope: Intedisciplinary Journeys in Culture', Speakers invited for 1998 academic year : Stephen Heath and Mark Cousins; Sponsored by the Representation of the European Comission to Turkey and the Middle East Technical University, December 1998. 

Co-Organizer of lecture series 'Kaleidoscope: Intedisciplinary Journeys in Culture', Speakers invited for 2001 academic year Robert Young, Ato Quayson and Sabine Strasser; Sponsored by the Representation of the European Comission to Turkey, February 2001 and May 2001. 

Organizer, of a lecture on Migrant Identities and Hybridity, Invited speaker Sabines Strasser, University of Veinna, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 1999.  

Co-Organizer and participant of a lecture series on Space and Identity (Discussions on Space), Ankara, Mimarlar Dernegi (Architects Association) February-May 1998, Ankara,  

Co-organizer of the conference 'Sosyal Bilimleri Yeniden Düşünmek: Yeni bir Kavrayışa Doğru' (Rethinking Social Sciences: Towards a New Conception), İstanbul Universitesi, February 1998, Istanbul. 

Organizer of lectures 'On Deconstruction and Feminist Theory', Speakers invited Gerald MacLean and Donna Landry, Middle East Technical University, May 1995. 

Co-Organizer of the conference on 'Rethinking the Political', Speakers invited Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffee, Andrew Ross, Fred Dallmayer, Douglas Kellner, University of California, Santa Cruz, November 1989 
 
 

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