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1 Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities Annual Report June 2012 May 2013 Prof. Dr. Zeynep Aycan, Director Assoc. Prof. Şuhnaz Yılmaz Özbağcı, Acting Director ( ) Table of contents 1. Executive Summary GSSSH Activities in Detail Mission & Strategies Institutional Support to Attract the Best Students International Collaborations Intellectual Stimulation Publications, Conference Presentation, Awards

2 1. Executive Summary GSSSH completed its 10 th year with 21 graduate programs, current student population of 145 and alumni population exceeding 270. GSSSH programs are growing to include faculty members from 4 colleges: College of Social Sciences and Humanities, College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Law School, and College of Engineering. GSSSH currently offers MA and Ph.D. degrees in the following programs with thesis: Archeology & History of Arts (MA & Ph.D.) (interdisciplinary program combining Archeology & History of Arts) Comparative Studies in History & Society (MA) (interdisciplinary program combining Sociology & History) Psychology (MA & Ph.D.) Economics (MA & Ph.D.) International Relations (MA & Ph.D.) Master s in Law (LLM) Design, Technology, Society (MA & Ph.D.) (interdisciplinary program combining MAVA, Psychology, Sociology, Archeology, and Engineering) In 2013 GSSSH launched the following new non-thesis programs starting from the academic year: Non-Thesis MA Program in Economics Non-Thesis MA Program in International Relations Non-Thesis MA Program in Museum Studies and Cultural Heritage Management Non-Thesis MA Program in Comparative Studies in History and Society Non-Thesis MA Program in Psychology Non- Thesis MDes Program in Design, Technology and Society Non-Thesis Master of Laws (LL.M) in Public Law Non-Thesis Master of Laws (LL.M) in Private Law GSSSH achievements in Academic year can be highlighted as follows. Quality of admitted students improved in Academic Year: number of student with GPA > 3.00 and ALES > 80 increased from 33 in 2010, to 40 in 2011, to 45 in Percentage of students on TUBITAK and Project scholarships increased from 30 % in to 36 % in and to 49 % in Number of MA graduates receiving acceptance from Ph.D. programs increased from 24 last year to 31 this year. Number of publications authored or co-authored by graduate students increased from 33 last year to 53 this year. 2

3 Our Joint Degree Ph.D. program in Psychology with Tilburg University has started and our first student, Arzu Aydınlı, was admitted to the Joint Degree program. Our first Cotutelle agreement with University of Amsterdam was approved by the Higher Education Council (YOK). This program allows joint supervision of the Ph.D. dissertation, resulting in the award of Dual Doctorate Degree from both Koc University and University of Amsterdam. MIREKOC, under the leadership of Prof. Ahmet Icduygu, has become the partner in the INTEGRIM project funded by the EU Seventh Framework Programme. The project funds graduate students engaging in multidisciplinary work on migration. The program will bring 400, 000 Euros to Koc University in 4 years to fund Ph.D. students spending part of their education in partner universities and receiving international Ph.D. students to KU. Design, Technology and Society Program s ongoing projects have received funding from TUBİTAK, EU and also from leading companies in the Information and Communications Technology and Crative Industry sector, such as VESTEL, KoçSistem, Imagination Studios. Just the EU funding alone was in the amount of 550,000 Euros, one of the highest grant received by the Department of Media and Visual Art s and used towards supporting DTS s graduate students. GSSSH Distinguished Scholar Seminar Series continues to attract world-renown scholars. GSSSH Achievements in Numbers 2009/ / / /2013 Total number of applicants Number of applicants from foreign universities Average GPA of admitted students GPA of students in the Graduate programs % of Students admitted with External funding Number of conference papers presented by graduate students Number of publications (co)authored by graduate students

4 2. GSSSH Activities in Detail Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities (GSSSH) is celebrating its 10th year with 145 students, 270 graduates and 21 graduate programs embracing a wide range of disciplines including Law, Economics, International Relations and Political Science, Design and Technology, History, Archeology, History of Arts, Sociology, and Psychology. Mission: The mission of GSSSH is to develop leaders to contribute to science and practice in fields of social sciences by providing students with competencies and skills necessary to conduct high-quality research that has the potential to contribute to universal knowledge as well as social policies in Turkey. Vision: In the next 5 years GSSSH aims to be recognized as the center of excellence to attract and develop best students in the world who have the highest potential to contribute to science and practice of social sciences and humanities. GSSSH alumni will be employed as academics in the best National and International Universities around the world, or as employees in the most competitive jobs in industry, government, or NGOs. GSSSH s strategies to achieve the vision are to increase: 1. Institutionalization 2. Internationalization 3. Intellectual Stimulation 4. Dissemination of research output To achieve these objectives the following activities were completed between September 2012 and May Institutionalization Professionally Managed Student Recruitment Activities Renewed Posters Website Updates Newspaper Ads Worldwide Announcement of our programs Electronic Banners Press Release Information Sessions New scholarship regulation According to the new YOK regulation students cannot be expelled from programs for any reason. We had to revise our scholarship regulations in light of this new YOK rule. Our new scholarship regulation shared with students and faculty outlines the conditions under which graduate scholarships are terminated ( 4

5 2. Internationalization Erasmus internship programs Graduate student exchange agreements GSSSH International Summer Schools 3. Intellectual Stimulation Distinguished Scholar Series & Special Seminars Extra trainings and summer Schools attended by our students Workshops organized by GSSSH 4. Dissemination of research output Conference participation Publications New course on writing and publishing research papers Awards and recognition received by graduate students 2.1 Activities to Increase Institutionalization Renewed Posters and Communication Materials Newly designed Poster and ings for GSSSH New Brochure is designed containing detailed information on all graduate Programs of GSSSH. 5

6 Newspaper Ads and News About Graduate Programs GSSSH Information Session Announcements Published in the following outlets: Hürriyet Newspaper Radikal Newspaper Mesele Magazine 1+1 Magazine Cognito Magazine Bianet.org Website Medyatava.com Website Worldwide Announcement of our programs: 1. Masterstudies.com 2. Studyportal.com 6

7 Information Sessions for applicants 22 February GSSSH Information Session, Koç University 25 Attendees 23 March LLM Information Session, RCAC 7 Attendees 29 March GSSSH Information Session, RCAC 16 Attendees 27 April GSSSH Information Session, Koç University 22 Attendees 10 May All Graduate Programs Information Session, Ankara 17 May All Graduate Programs Information Session, Izmir A new portal: Graduate.ku.edu.tr Graduate Web Page ( ) has been launched recently and the number of visitors are increasing every day.the main purpose of this new web page is to have all the essential information of our four Graduate Schools under one roof. Each graduate school s web page is still the main reference of information, and this new page is basically a support unit, in which we gathered all the information from every department s own page. 2.2 Activities to Increase Internationalization GSSSH students in Erasmus / Exchange Programs Utrecht University Exchange Student Berivan Ece Usta (PSYCH PhD 2) Leiden University Exchange Student Melis Yavuz (PSYCH PhD 2 ) Newcastle University, Kara Dağ HLC and Landscape analysis project Yasemin Özarslan (ARHA PhD 2) International Migration Institute University of Oxford, Visiting Fellow Ayşen Ezgi Üstübici ( PhD 4) GSSSH Exchange Agreements Thanks to the hard work of the Office of International Programs, GSSSH has graduate student exchange agreements with the 88 universities in the world: Country Australia Australia Institution Bond University Deakin University 7

8 Australia Griffith University Australia Macquarie University Australia Macquarie University Australia University of Technology Sydney Australia University of Wollongong Austria FH-Joanneum University of Applied Sciences Azerbaijan Khazar University Brazil FGV-EAESP Bulgaria University of National and World Economy Canada Carleton University Canada Guelph University Canada University of British Columbia Canada University of Prince Edward İslands Canada York University China Fudan University China Nanjing University China Shanghai University China Tongji University Czech Republic Charles University in Prague Finland Aalto University Finland University of Helsinki Finland University of Tampere Finland University of Tampere France Euromed France Institut d edtudes Politiques de Rennes (Science Po) France Science Po Paris France Universite de Lorraine France Universite Lille 1 Germany BTU Cottbus Germany Eberhard Karls Universitat Tübingen Germany Technische Universitat Dresden Germany Universitat Bielefeld Germany Universitat Zu Köln Greece University of Ioannina Holland Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Holland Tilburg University Holland University of Groningen Holland VU Amsterdam Hong Kong Lingnan University Italy LUISS Italy Universita Carlo Cattaneo- LIUC Italy Universita degli studi di Firenze Italy Universita di Bologna Japan Kyoto University Kuwait American University of Kuwait Kyrgyz Republic American University of Central Asia Lebanon American University of Beirut Macedonia South East European University Mexico Universidad de Monterrey 8

9 New Zealand Peru Poland Poland Singapore South Korea Sweden Sweden Sweden Switzerland Switzerland Taiwan Taiwan UK UK UK UK UK UK University of Waikato Universidad del Pacifico University of Warsaw Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities NTU University of Seoul Linköping University Stockholm University UMEA University University of Basel University of Bern National Chengchi University National Taiwan University City University London Durham University Liverpool University Newcastle University St. Andrews University of Essex Binghamton University Brown University Brown University Bryn Mawr College Clemson University Drexel University Florida State University Adendum Hawai Pacific University Loyola University New Orleans Rice University Rutgers, State University of New Jersey School of the Museum of Fine Arts Suffolk University The University of Mississippi University of California University of Nevada Virginia Tech GSSSH International Summer Schools GSSSH, in collaboration with the Office of International Programs and RCAC, Boğaziçi University and Bilkent University initiated four Summer Programs to attract graduate students from the world. 9

10 AREMSIS 24 June August 2013 Istanbul Through the Ages July 2013 Being the center of magnificent empires through time, İstanbul is calling you to discover its rich cultural heritage by following the footmarks of saints, sultans and angels in this enriching summer seminar. Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations is excited to invite you to have a taste of İstanbul with its intellectual, in-depth program developed by world renowned Ottoman and Byzantine academicians. 10

11 Cappadocia in Context 17 June July 2013 Prof. Robert Ousterhout (University of Pennsylvania) and Dr. Tolga Uyar (University of Paris I), with the contribution of some esteemed faculty members from Koç University, will present Cappadocia through a combination of lectures, seminar discussions, site visits and field trips. A camera, sturdy walking shoes and a taste of exploration are essential! GSSSH International Collaborations Joint Degree with Tilburg University One of the most important developments in this academic year was launching our Joint Degree program in Ph.D. in Psychology with Tilburg University. Arzu Aydınlı, Koç University PhD 2 nd year student in Psyhchology was the first student to be admitted to the program. Dual Doctorate Diplomas through Joint Supervision (Cotutelle Agreement) The second foremost development this year was signing a Protocol with University of Amsterdam governing the joint supervision and awarding 2 doctorate diplomas. We received YÖK s (Higher Education Concil s) approval to launch this program for our Ph.D. student in IR, Aysen Ezgi Üstübici. 2.3 Activities to Increase Intellectual Stimulation GSSSH Distinguished Scholar Seminer Series Dr. Warren Meck, Duke University May 15, 2012 Dr. Jean Decety, University of Chicago September 27, 2012 Prof. John J. Mearsheimer, University of Chicago October 2, 2012 Dr. Donald A. Norman, Nielsen Norman Group, October 04, 2012 (Video Conference) Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology October, 2012 Dr. Jack Levy, Rutgers University November 19, 2012 Associate Prof. Nathan Shedroff, California College of the Arts March 11, 2013 Prof. Shahzad Bashir, Stanford University March 22, 2013 Prof. Stelios C. Zyglidopoulos, University of Cambridge April 24,

12 Media coverage for our Distinguished Scholars DTS (Design, Technology and Society) Marketing Türkiye, March Prof. John J. Mearsheimer, University of Chicago International Relations Department Distinguished Seminar Series Guest, October 2, 2013 Bizim Anadolu 03.October

13 CNN Türk Sabah Newspaper Milliyet Newspaper Ayrıntılı Haber 03.October

14 Milliyet Newspaper 02.October 2012 Vatan Newspaper 02.October Summer School/Internships/Workshops and Extra Trainings for Graduate Students - Byzantine Greek Summer School, Center for Byzantine, Ottoman, Greek Studies Birmingham, UK August, 2013 Canan Arikan (ARHA MA 1 ) 14

15 - Leiden University, Boeotia Archaeological Survey Project 01 August - 27 August, GREECE Yasemin Özarslan (ARHA PhD 2) - Intensive Ottoman and Turkish Summer School, organized by Koç University, Harvard University and the Turkish Cultural Foundation July 8 - August 16, 2013, with full scholarship Gözde Önder (ARHA MA 1) - Animal Use in Experimental Research Course January 2013 Başak Akdoğan (PSYCH MA 1) Filiz Coşkun (PSYCH MA 1) and Bilgehan Çavdaroğlu (PSYCH MA 2) - Training in Italian Institute of Technology 1 July-10 August Bilgehan Çavdaroğlu (PSYCH MA 2) - Neuropsychological Assessment Training 24 November-22 December 2012 Başak Akdoğan (PSYCH MA 1) - Archaeobotany Fieldcourse Birmingham, UK 9-13 July, 2013 Gülşah Günata (ARHA PhD) - Ankara Anadolu Medeniyetleri Museum Gordion Archaeolgy Site, Ankara April Erin Minnaugh (ARHA MA 1) Summer Excavation Term of the Archeology Site of Aigai Vergina, Greece 01 July August 2012 Yiğit Zafer Helvacı (ARHA MA 2) - Independent Library Research Budapest 24 August-20 September 2012 Elif Demirkent (ARHA MA 2) - 12 th Colloquium of the International Association for the Study of Ancient Mosaics Venice, Italy September 2012 Yiğit Zafer Helvacı (ARHA MA 2) - International Summer School of Greek Language History Culture at the Institute of Balkans Studies Thessalonik, Greece 29 July-26 August, 2012 Berat Meryem Örnek (ARHA MA 1 ) - Chester Beatty Library Islamic Depertmant, Summer Intenship Dublin, Ireland 17 June 13 July, 2013 Ece Tunca (ARHA MA 1) - Byzantine Greek Summer School, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies University of Birmingham, UK 29 July - 26 August 2012 Mustafa Kemal Baran (ARHA PhD 2) 15

16 2.4 Publications, Conference Presentation, Achievements Dissermination of Research Output Publications by our graduate students ( ) Student Name Department Title Publication Gonca Dardeniz ARHA PhD 1 Pyrotechnological Installations of LBIIa Alalakh. Tell Atchana, Ancient Alalakh. Volume 2: The Late Bronze Age II City. Editors: K. Aslıhan Yener, Murat Akar, Mara T. Horowitz, Istanbul: Koç University Press. Gonca Dardeniz ARHA PhD 1 Glass, Faience and Frit (in Small Finds Chapter). Tell Atchana, Ancient Alalakh. Volume 2: The Late Bronze Age II City. Editors: K. Aslıhan Yener, Murat Akar, Mara T. Horowitz, Gonca Dardeniz ARHA PhD 1 New Metal Analysis from Tarsus, Gözlükule; Turkey: Use of Lead in Arrowhead Technology. Tarsus-Gözlükule, Volume II. Gonca Dardeniz ARHA PhD 1 Geç Tunç Çağı na Ait Bir İşlik Alanın İncelenmesi: Alalakh ta Ateşli Teknolojiler [Investigating a Late Bronze Age Craft Quarter: Pyrotechnology in Alalakh]. 34. Arkeometri Sonuçları Toplantısı, Ankara. Gülşah Günata ARHA PhD 1 First Observations on the Black Glazed Pottery at Claros, Maison de l'orient et de la Mediterranee Sabiha Göloğlu ARHA PhD 2 While a Country is Changing: Turkish Painting from the Ottoman Reformation to the Republican Period (exhibition review with Nina Ergin) Istanbul: Koç University Press. Tarsus-Gözlükule, Volume II. Arkeometri Sonuçları Toplantısı, Ankara. Maison de l'orient et de la Mediterranee Turkish Historical Review 3 (2012) Sabiha Göloğlu & William Harper ARHA PhD 2 ARHA MA 2 Images of the Poor in Surname-i Hümayun (Imperial Festival Book) of Images of the Poor II (LIT Verlag, 2013) Yasemin Özarslan ARHA PhD 2 Summers, G.D., S. Branting, S. Baltalı-Tırpan, D. Langis-Barsetti, J. Lehner, Y. Özarslan, S. Penacho and F. Summers. In press. Kerkenes Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı 34. Ankara: Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı Yayınları. Yasemin Özarslan ARHA PhD 2 Karadağ HLC and Landscape Analysis Project To be published Yasemin Özarslan ARHA PhD 2 Nina Ergin w. Contributions of Y. Özarslan Mapping Istanbul s Hammams of 1752 and their Employees. (With contributions by Y. Özarslan). In: Suraiya Faroqhi and M. Erdem Kabadayı (eds). Ottoman Artisans over the Centuries. New York, Oxford: Berghahn. Yasemin Özarslan ARHA PhD 2 Özarslan, Y. and G.D. Summers. forthcoming. Chapter 2. GIS Analysis of the Cappadocia Gate Location. In G.D. Summers: Kerkenes Final Reports 1: Excavations at the Cappadocia Gate.. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Chicago: OI Press. 16

17 Canan Arıkan ARHA MA 1 Canan ARIKAN, Lykia'da Erken Bizans Devrine ait bir Define: Korydalla Hazinesi, in: N.E. Akyürek Şahin - B. Takmer - F. Onur (eds.) Gözde Önder ARHA MA 1 Cultural Encounter between the Ottoman Empire and Sweden as a Result of Diplomatic Relations Eskiçağ Yazıları 3, Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, İstanbul 2012, Swedish Research Institute Journal Dragomanen. Gözde Önder With Karin Schuitema ARHA MA 1 Tophane through Traveller's Eyes Annual Report of the Netherlands Research Institute Elif Demirtiken MA Paper based on her MA research she presented at the Oxford University Graduate Symposium (February, 2013) was selected for publication. Oxford University Graduate Symposium Publications Pınar Çevikayak DTS PhD 1 SOUNDTOURIST: An Unconventional Guide for the Sonic Discovery of Istanbul (2013 Stony Brook Philosophy and the Arts Conference Proceedings) Muhammet Tahir Kılavuz MA 2 "Restoring Brotherly Bonds: Turkish-Azerbaijani Energy Relations (co-author Şuhnaz Yılmaz), PONARS Eurasia Policy Papers, No. 240, Washington D.C., September PONARS Eurasia Policy Papers, No. 240, Washington D.C., September Muhammet Tahir Kılavuz MA 2 Orta Doğu da İslamcı Siyaset: Değişim Sürecinde Müslüman Kardeşler ve Nahda, (co-author M. Huseyin Mercan, Suleyman Guder), Istanbul: Istanbul: ILKE Policy Report, no. 2, B27 Gitta Glüpker PhD 3 "Effectiveness of EU conditionality in the Western Balkans: minority rights and the fight against corruption in Croatia and Macedonia. Journal of Contemporary European Research 9 (2). Ayşen Ezgi Üstübici PhD 4 Reflections from the Conference Turkey Debates its Social Policies A Rights-Based Turn in Social Policy Making in Turkey? (Review Article) New Perspectives on Turkey, 47, Fall 2012 Ayşen Ezgi Üstübici PhD 4 The Impact of Remittances on Human Development: a Quantitative Analysis and Policy Implications Ayşen Ezgi Üstübici PhD 4 Within Country Analysis: Turkey Project Paper 9, FP7 Project EUMAGINE (co-authored with Deniz Karci Korfalı, Deniz Sert, Helene de Clerk), October 2012, Mustafa Kutlay PhD 3 Political Economy of New Turkish Foreign Policy: A Critical Approach ( Yeni Türk Dış Politikasının Ekonomi Politiği: Eleştirel Bir Yaklaşım: Mustafa Kutlay PhD 3 Internationalization of Finance Capital in Spain and Turkey: Neoliberal Globalization and the Political Economy of State Strategies Mustafa Kutlay PhD 3 Economic Integration/Political Fragmentation Paradox: The Euro Crisis and the Future of pp (co-authored with Ayse Alniacik). (SSCI) Economics and Sociology 5 (1), 2012, pp (co-authored with Darja Irdam). Uluslararası İlişkiler, Vol. 9, No. 35, 2012, (in Turkish, SSCI). New Perspectives on Turkey, No. 47, 2012, pp (SSCI). Uluslararası İlişkiler, Vol. 9, No. 33, pp (with Prof. Dr. Ziya Öniş, in 17

18 European Union (Ekonomik Bütünleşme/Siyasal Parçalanmışlık Paradoksu: Euro Krizi ve AB nin Geleceği) Mustafa Kutlay PhD 3 The Arab Spring: A Game Changer in Turkey-EU Relations? Turkish, SSCI). Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Vol. 14, No. 1, April 2013 (with O. Bahadır Dinçer, ISI). Mustafa Kutlay PhD 3 An Empirical Analysis on Turkey s Regional Power Potential in the Middle East Mustafa Kutlay PhD 3 Beyond the Global Financial Crisis: Structural Continuities as Impediments to a Sustainable Recovery, Akademik Ortadoğu, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2012, pp (with O. Bahadır Dinçer, in Turkish). All-Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace, Vol. 1, No. 1,2012, pp (with Prof. Dr. Ziya Öniş). Mustafa Kutlay PhD 3 Küresel Kriz ve Hâkim Paradigmanın Yeniden Üretimi: Fikirler-Çıkarlar Ekseninde Bir İnceleme (Global Crisis and the Reproduction of Mainstream Economic Paradigm: An Explanation Based on Interests and Ideas) Ömer Faruk Örsün PhD 4 Does the Market-Capitalist Peace Supersede the Democratic Peace: The Evidence Still Says Yes, (with Michael Mousseau and Jameson Ungerer), response to Allan Dafoe and Bruce Russett "Does Capitalism Account for the Democratic Peace? The Evidence Still Says No" in The Capitalist Peace: The Origins and Prospects of a Liberal Idea, eds. Gerald Schneider and Nils Petter Gleditsch. Routledge (2012). Başar Demir PSYCH MA Individual differences in willingness to become an organ donor: A data-mining approach to reasoned action. Personality and Individual Differences.(ISI impact 1.88). Bilgehan ÇAvdaroğlu PSYCH MA 2 Epistasis effects of dopamine genes on interval timing and reward magnitude in humans (Fuat Balcı, Martin Wiener, Bilgehan Çavdaroğlu, Branch Coslett) Bilgehan ÇAvdaroğlu PSYCH MA 2 Time-based Reward Maximization (Bilgehan Çavdaroğlu, Mustafa Zeki, Fuat Balcı) Damla Bayraktar Aksel PhD 3 Edited Book together with Ahmet İçduygu and Deniz Yükseker: Migration Around Turkey: Old Phenomena, New Research. Toplum ve Bilim, No. 124, pp (with Prof. Dr. Ziya Öniş). Routledge (2012). Personality and Individual Differences (ISI impact 1.88). Neuropsychologia (2013) (Impact 3.636) (Philosophical Transactions B under review 2013 Impact 6.050) Isis Press (forthcoming) Damla Bayraktar Aksel PhD 3 IOM 2011 Report on Turkey, co-authored with Ahmet İçduygu (forthcoming) 18

19 Damla Bayraktar Aksel PhD 3 Book Chapter co-authored with Didem Danış, "Diverse Facets of Europeanization at the Iraqi- Turkish Border" in Nurcan Özgür Baklacıoğlu and Yeşim Özer (Eds.) Building Fortress Turkey Deniz Karcı Korfal0131 PhD 3 Within Country Analysis: Turkey (co-authored with Sert, Helene de Clerk), October 2012, Project Paper 9, FP7 Project EUMAGINE Duygu Biricik PSYCHMA 2 Kagitcibasi, C., & Biricik, D. (2012) "Bir İnsan Çiz Testi" Sonuçlarının Nesiller ve Cinsiyetler Arası Karşılaştırması: 33 Yıl Sonra Türk Psikoloji Dergisi. Ayşe Burçin Erarslan PSYCH PhD 2 Gender Role Attitudes of Female Students in Single-sex and Coeducational High Schools in Istanbul. Sex Roles. (co-authored with Bruce Rankin) SSCI Sex Roles doi: /s Ayşe Burçin Erarslan PSYCH PhD 2 Taking the Best of Both Worlds: Turkey from a Yin Yang Perspective. In Tony Fang (Ed.) Yin Yang: A New Perspective on Culture. (co-authored with Duygu Biricik) Ayşe Burçin Erarslan PSYCH PhD 2 Does Educational Attainment Influence the Amount of Negative Spillover? Ayşe Burçin Erarslan PSYCH PhD 2 Definitions of Success by Turkish Entrepreneurs and Managers (co-authored with Hayat Kabasakal, Renin Varnalı, Irmak Erdoğan, Zeynep Aycan) Sage Publications Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) database in preparation, 2013 Ayşe Burçin Erarslan PSYCH PhD 2 Key Success Factors of Men and Women Entrepreneurs in Turkey (co-authored with Hayat Kabasakal, Renin Varnalı, Irmak Erdoğan, Zeynep Aycan) Beyza Ateş Şen PSYCH PhD 2 Küntay, A. C., Nakamura, K. & Ateş Şen, B. (in press). Crosslinguistic and crosscultural approaches to pragmatic development. In D. Matthews (ed.) Pragmatic Development. in preparation, 2013 TiLAR Series (Trends in Language Acquisition Research). Ayşe Sarılar PSYCH Sarılar, A., Matthews, D. & Küntay. A.C. (2013). Hearing relative clauses boosts relative clause usage (and referential clarity) in young Turkish language learners. Applied Psycholinguistics.. Applied Psycholinguistics. Ayşe Candan PSYCH Candan, A, Küntay, A.C., Yeh, Y., Cheung, H., Wagner, L. & Naigles, L. R. (2012). Language and age effects in children s processing of word order. Cognitive Development, 27(3), Melis Hatice Yavuz PSYCH PhD 2 Turkish mothers' coping with children's negative emotions: A brief report. Cognitive Development, 27(3), Journal of Child and Family Studies 19

20 Melis Hatice Yavuz and Hilal Şen PSYCH PhD 2 Well-being of mothers of children with orthopedic disabilities in a disadvantaged context Child: Care, Health & Development Hilal Şen and Melis Hatice Yavuz PSYCH PhD 2 Parenting: The Turkish context. In. H. Selin (Ed.), Parenting across cultures: Childrearing, motherhood and fatherhood in non-western cultures. Netherlands: Springer. Hilal Şen PSYCH PhD 2 Eisenberg s theory of prosocial reasoning. In J. Wright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences (2nd ed.) Arzu Aydınlı PSYCH PhD 2 Helping and Volunteering across Cultures: Determinants of Prosocial Behavior. Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, Unit 5. Süleyman Sabri Taşçı PSYCH PhD 1 Hand Reversal and Assimilation in TİD Lexicalized Fingerspelling. United Kingdom: Elsevier Ltd. Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, Unit 5. Retrieved from /6 To appear in Engin Arık (ed.) Readings in Turkish Sign Language. Süleyman Sabri Taşçı PSYCH PhD 1 Ideology and language in the Early-Republic: A history of deaf education in Turkey. Proceedings of International Symposium on Language Conference presentations of our graduate students ( ) Department Student Conference Paper ARHA MA 1 Canan Arıkan Koç ARHA Graduate Symposium: Cities a Bigger Picture Patterns of Worship and Mobility in the Hinterland of Myra: Günağı Church ARHA MA 1 Canan Arıkan 1. Eski Çağ Dilleri ve Kültürleri Öğrenci Sempozyumu, Mayıs 2013 Bizans Vaftiz Teknelerindeki Adak Yazıtları ARHA MA 2 Berat Meryem Örnek 6th International Conference on the Inclusive Museum: Museums and Active Citizenship,Copenhagen,Denmark Disability and Accsess Issues in Turkish Museums ARHA PhD Gülşah Günata Koç ARHA GSA Graduate Symposium, Cities: A Bigger Picture The extra-urban Sanctuary and City: Claros, a Sanctuary with two Cities ARHA PhD Gonca Dardeniz 35 th International Symposium of Excavations, Surveys and Arhaeometry Alalakh (Tell Atchana): New Results New Results in Late Bronze Age Glass Production. Late Bronze Age Glass Production. ARHA PhD Deniz Sever 14th Annual Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman, Modern Greek Studies Postgraduate Symposium, University of Birmingham Sixth-Seventh Century Lead Pilgrim Flasks and Their Role in the Shaping of Pilgrims Self-definition ARHA MA 2 Aysel Arslan IV. International Archeology Students Symposium, Harran University. Ana Tanrıça'nın İzinde: İç Anadolu'da Neolitik ve Kalkolitik Dönemlerde Figürinler 20

21 ARHA MA 2 Erin Minnaugh 6th International Conference on the Inclusive Museum: Museums and Active Citizenship,Copenhagen,Denmark Turkish Primary Schools and Archeology Museum in the Digital Age: A Case Study of the Gordion Museum ARHA MA 2 William Harper Symposia Iranica: First Biennial Iranian Studies Graduate Conference 'Friend and Brother'? The Mughal- Safavid Artistic Perception and Portrayal of Each Other, ARHA MA 2 ARHA MA 2 William Harper (co-presented with Sabiha Göloğlu). Yiğit Zafer Helvacı IMAGES (II) - Images of the Poor 12th Colloquium of the International Association for the Study of the Ancient Mosaics,Venice-Italy Images of the Poor in Surname-i Hümayun (Imperial Festival Book) of 1582 Archeological and theorotical research paper on Zeugma Mosaics, PhD 4 Ömer Faruk Örsün Midwest Political Science Association - Chicago,IL, Aiding Peace Abroad? A Second Image Theory PhD 4 Ömer Faruk Örsün METU Conference on International Relations, Ankara, Turkey Contestation, Inclusiveness and Interstate Conflict: A Second Image Theory" 2013 PhD 4 Ömer Faruk Örsün 2013 Peace Science Society-ISA Annual Meeting, Budapest, Hungary. Foreign Aid and War Time Defense Spending PhD 4 Imren Borsuk 10. Graduate Conference of Turkish Political Science Association, Middle East Technical University, 16 December 2012, Ankara, Turkey. European Union s impact on minority policies: Comparison of Bulgaria and Turkey PhD 4 Imren Borsuk 18. Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalities. Lynching in Turkey toward Kurds and Alevis PhD 4 Imren Borsuk The road from Ethnic Mobilization to Intercommunal Violence: Comparison of Northern Ireland, Basque Conflict and Kurdish problem in Turkey PSS-ISA Joint Conference 2013, Budapest, Hungary PhD 2 Aylin Yardımcı The Evolution of Turkey's Experience in Development Assistance" in Hany Besada, Evren Tok and Leah McMillan (eds.) (forthcoming) Innovating South-South Cooperation: Challenges, Modalities and Policies University of Ottawa Press PhD 3 Deniz Karcı Korfalı Annual IMISOEe Confernce, Amsterdam Immobility and Changing Migration Aspirations in Ukraine, Turkey and Morocco. PhD 3 Deniz Karcı Korfalı Impact of Remittances on Consumption and Human Development: The Case of Emirdağ, Ege University, Migration Studies Symposium. PhD 3 PhD 3 Ayşen Ezgi Üstübici Siyasi İlimler Türk Derneği, X.LİSANSÜSTÜ KONFERANSI, METU, Ankara Ayşen Ezgi Üstübici 4th International Conference on Women's Studies: Gender Equality and the Law, Farmagusta, North Cyprus, 3-5 October Geçiş ülkesinden Hedef Ülkeye: Türkiye ve Fas ta Düzensiz Göçün Düzenlenmesi Gender in Migration: Navigating Journeys and the Settlement through Marriage.

22 PhD 3 PhD 3 Ayşen Ezgi Üstübici International Summer School: The Transnational Social Question: Implications for Concepts and Methods, Bielefeld University, Germany, 3-7 September Ayşen Ezgi Üstübici Ninth Annual IMISCOE Conference, Amsterdam,the Netherlands, August, The link between emigration and immigration in transitional contexts? The case of Turkey and Morocco. Perceptions on Gender Equality: a Motivation to Emigrate. MA 2 Melissa Meek Eastern sociological Society Conference, Boston Massachusetts Peaceful Protest or Violent Rebellion: Factors explaining the pursuit of nonviolence over violence among ethnic groups PhD 4 Didem Çakmaklı International Society for Third Sector Research 10th International Conferance, Siena Italy Practicing Rights and Obligations: Civil Society Organizations in Turkey / From Transition to Turning Point: Tracing Civil Society Development in Turkey PhD 4 Didem Çakmaklı 5. Uluslar arası İlişkiler Çalışmaları ve Eğitim Kongresi, KKTC Simulation Applications on International Relations Classes Kadir Aydın Gündüz International Society for Third Sector Research 10th International Conferance, Siena Italy Testing the civil society argument: Does stronger civil society lead to less corruption and better democracy? Damla Bayraktar Aksel 18th Annual Association for the study of Nationalities, Kins Distant Workers, Diasporas Columbia University, NY Constructing Turkey's Transnational Members Abroad Damla Bayraktar Aksel 54th ISA Annual Convention, San Francisco The Triangular Nexus Migration, Security and Economy: Evidence from Turkish-Iraqi Border Damla Bayraktar Aksel International Society for Third Sector Research 10th International Conference, Siena Italy The Triangular Nexus Migration, Security and Economy: Evidence from Turkish-Iraqi Border PSYC Ceren Yalın Dışavurumcu Sanat Yöntemlerinin Koçlukta Kullanımı/Koçlukta Yaratıcılık,Ataşehir,İstanbul Parenting and Social Development in Early Adolescence PSYC Demet Kara Ceren Yalın IAAH th World Congress on adolescent Health,İstanbul Parenting and Social Development in Early Adolescence PSYC Berivan Ece Usta Sarmac X Rotterdam 2013&Matlab Fundamentals Training Eindhoven,Netherlands Preventing Typical Life Events Eliminates the Bump PSYC Ayça Alaylı, Bilge Yağmurlu, Evren Etel, Yasemin Sandıkçı İrem Korcu 2013 Society for Research in Child Development Biennal Meeting (SRCD), Seattle, Social Withdrawal in Turkish institutionreared children: An examination of its stability and early predictions. PSYC Berna Akçınar 22nd International Association of Cross Cultural Psychology Congress 22 The protective role of support systems on the children s behavioral development

23 PSYC Berna Akçınar 22nd International Association of Cross Cultural Psychology Congress Ramifications of Social Stratification for Three Year Old Children and their Families in Turkey PSYC Ezgi Aytürk ESCOP 2013, Budapest Hungary Poster Presentation: "The Role of Personality and Emotional State on Risk Taking Behavior PSYC Melis Yavuz Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Seattle,.With Yavuz, M. H., Ekmekci, H., Emmen, R., Mesman, J.,Yagmurlu, B., IJzendoorn, M. (2013, April). Sensitivity Beliefs of Mothers and Professionals Across Cultures. PSYC Melis Yavuz Symposium paper presented at the 20th Biennial Meeting of International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Edmonton, Canada. PSYC Melis Yavuz Poster presented at the 20th Biennial Meeting of International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Edmonton, Canada. The role of maternal sensitivity, child temperament, and stress in preschoolers internalizing behavioryavuz, H. M., Yagmurlu, B., Aksan, N., & Corapci, F. (2012, July). s in Turkey. Social-emotional wellbeing in low SES Turkish children with chronic orthopedic disability PSYC Hilal Şen and Melis Yavuz Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Seattle, with Sen, H., Zhou, N., Leung, C. Yavuz, M. H., Yagmurlu, B., & Cheah, C. L. (2013, April) Similarities and differences in Turkish and Chinese immigrant mothers' expression of warmth. PSYC Melis Yavuz Symposium paper presented at the 2013 Biennial Across cultures the ideal mother is a Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development sensitive one: Maternal beliefs about (SRCD), Seattle, sensitive parenting across the globe. PSYC Melis Yavuz Poster presented at the 20th World Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP), Paris, France. PSYC Melis Yavuz Poster presented at the 20th Biennial Meeting of International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Edmonton, Canada. See-know ability and social competence in children with autism Understanding that knowledge is followed by seeing is critical for social competence in children with autism. PSYCH PhD Sezin Öner Sarmac X Rotterdam 2013 Netherlands The role of attachment representations on the phenomenology of relationshipspecific autobiographical memories PSYCH Berivan Ece Usta Sezin Öner and Ezgi Aytürk Sarmac X Rotterdam 2013 Netherlands Ambient Odor and Autobiographical Memory PSYCH PhD Ceyla Erhan TIMELY School on Timing and Time Perception: Procedures, Measures, & Applications, Corfu Greece Presented the poster Time Reproduction for Temporally Predictable and Unpredictable Events 23

24 PSYCH Duygu Biricik International Congress of Psychology, Cape Town South Africa Career-Shifters : Key Factors in Voluntary Carer Change Process PSYCH A. Burçin Erarslan and Duygu Biricik Academy of International Business Annual Meeting 2013, Istanbul, Turkey Companies go Glocal : A case study in Turkey PSYCH A. Burçin Erarslan with Hayat Kabasakal and Irmak Erdoğan from Boğaziçi University Girişimcilikte Başarı Paneli: Türkiye'de Kadın ve Erkek Girişimcilerin Başarı Tanımları ve Kritik Başarı Faktörleri, Koç Üniversitesi, Istanbul 14 May, 2013 Kadın ve Erkek Girişimcilerin Başarı Tanımları PSYCH A. Burçin Erarslan 9th Biennial Conference of the Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues, Charlotte, North Carolina, June,2012 Gender Socialization in Single-sex and Coeducational High Schools in Istanbul: A Mixed-method Approach PSYCH A. Burçin Erarslan Beijing Forum 2012, Beijing, China 1-4 Nov, 2012 Revisiting the Concept of Culture in an Era of Great Transformation: Cultural Integration and Collisions PSYCH PSYCH A. Burçin Erarslan And Duygu Biricik The Inaugural International Conference on Yin Yang Paradigm, Stocholm, Sweden A. Burçin Erarslan Midwest Sociological Society 75th Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Taking the Best of Both Worlds: Turkey from a Yin Yang Perspective The Impact of School-level Factors on Gender Socialization in Single-sex and Coeducational High Schools in Istanbul TTT Pınar Çevikayak 2013 Stony Brook Philosophy and the Arts Conference,New York, Soundtourist: An Unconventional Guide for the Sonic Discovery of Istanbul Other Achievements of our Students Awards, Grants, Internships, Seminers and Recognitions o Ahmet Arda Gitmez (ECON MA 2nd Year): Crivelli Europe fellowship for Ph.D, funded by UniCredit and Universities Foundation This is an extremely competitive fellowship offered to only one student in Europe. o Deniz Sever (ARHA PhD 3 rd Year): Leventis Grant for Medieval Greek School in American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2011 July. o Melisa Şaylı (ECON MA 2nd Year): ESRC North West Doctoral Training Centre Funding for ECON PhD Program in University of Manchester (For three years) o Berat Meryem Örnek (ARHA MA 2nd Year): Peggy Guggenheim Collection internship, Venice. This is one of the most competitive and prestigious (and paying) international museum internships and we are so pleased that one of our graduate students from ARHA has 24

25 received this award. Please find the link to the museum's website at o Ayşe Burçin Erarslan (PSYC-PhD 2nd Year): Grants: -November 2012 Turkish Psychological Association International Conference Participation Support Fund. -June 2012 Stockholm University School of Business Yin Yang Collaborator Scholarship. -March 2012 Midwest Sociological Society Student Travel Grant. Awards: -April 2012 SPSSI (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues) Crosby-Spendlove Student Award in support of feminist perspective and social justice. o Hilal Şen (PSYC-PhD 2nd Year): Awards: -The Young Scholar Program of 2012 Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Jacobs Foundation International Travel Award for Society for Research in Child Development Biennial. o Ceyla Erhan (PSYC-PhD 1st Year): Grant: -Awarded 500Euros Travel grant to participate and present her poster in TIMELY School on Timing and Time Perception: Procedures, Measures, & Applications Corfu, Greece February 4-8, o Ayşen Ezgi Üstübici ( PhD 4th Year): Grants : /2012 International Studies Association Travel Grant ($500) to participate ISA Annual Convention, San Diego, US.1-4 April /2011-present KOÇ-KAM (Koç University Center for Gender Studies) Research Grant. -9/2011-present Fellow in Settling into Motion, The Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship in Migration Studies. -05/2013- Grant approved by TUBİTAK for her Joint PhD Degree studies at the University of Amsterdam. o İmren Borsuk ( PhD 4th Year): Grants : -ISA Conference Grant (250 $) -TUBITAK Conference Support Program (1500 $) o Gözde Önder (ARHA MA 1st Years): -3 week internship Netherlands Research Institute 25

26 -Worked on Tophane Heritage Project o Gonca Dardeniz (ARHA PhD 1st Year): Research Grants: AKMED (Reseach Institue on Mediterranean Civilizations) Research Grant for the scientific work on Tell Atchana/ancient Alalakh pyrotechnology. Awards: -Finalist for Rakow Grant for Glass Research o Mustafa Kemal Baran (ARHA PhD 2nd Year): Grants: - Classical Association London "Summer School Grant" o Melis Hatice Yavuz (PSYCH PhD 2nd Year): Research Grants: - Summer 2012: The Scientific and Technological Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) travel grant for International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development 2012 Biennial Meeting GSSSH Brown Bag Seminar Series International Relations Department: February 28th, 2013, Filippos Exadaktylos, Pablo Brañas-Garza and Antonio Espín, Experimental subjects are not different March 14, 2013 Bruce Rankin Murat Ergin and Fatoş Gökşen A Cultural Map of Turkey March 21, 2013, Selim Erdem Aytaç ve Ali Çarkoğlu, Who Gets Targeted for Vote Buying? Individual-Level Evidence from a List Experiment in Turkey March 28, 2013, Seda Ertaç The Tranmission of Risk Preferences from Mothers to Children April 4, 2013, Emre Erdoğan Measuring Change in Repeated Surveys: Age, Cohort and Period Analysis April 18, 2013, Sinan Türkyılmaz "Survey and Sample Design of 2008 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey May 2, 2013, Cerem I. Cenker Özek ve Ali Çarkoğlu "Diversity and Generalized Trust: The case of Turkey" May 9, 2013, Ahmet İçduygu Hüseyin Alptekin Deniz Sert Who Wants to Go to Europe: Evidence from Morocco, Senegal, Turkey, and Ukraine Psychology Department : Theory of Mind and Social Competence: A Meta-Analysis, Hilâl Şen, PhD Candidate. Autobiographical memory, Berivan Ece Usta, PhD Candidate. 26

27 Role of parental involvement in the effectiveness of intervention programs for childhood obesity: A meta-analysis, Melis Yavuz, PhD Candidate. The Longitudinal Analysis of the Effect of Parental Control on Externalizing Behaviors in Early Childhood Berna Akçınar, PhD Candidate Revisiting the Concept of Culture and Entrepreneurial Success Ayşe Burçin Erarslan, PhD Candidate Early Attentional and Communicative Skills As Foundations for Referential Communication and Word Learning Beyza Ateş Şen, PhD Candidate. An Analysis of Mammograms and Religiosity Celia K. Naivar Şen, PhD Candidate ARHA Graduate Symposium An examination of The Heratage, Archeology and Art of Anatolian Cities From Prehistory through the Ottoman Empire ARHA MA and PhD Students Sarah Aldrich, Ayse Bike Baykara, Mustafa Kemal Baran and Tyler Wolford hosted and executed the first annual Koc ARHA Graduate Symposium, titled "Cities; A Bigger Picture." They brought together 14 scholars from 5 countries and 10 universities. Synopsis The first annual Koç ARHA Graduate symposium aimed to challenge the boundaries of current scholarship. With a focus on Anatolian cities throughout the ages, the symposium brought together graduate student speakers from around the world to share their current research and engage in cross-disciplinary discussions. Scholars were presented with the following prompt: As the majority of the world s population now lives in cities, studies relating to cities are a common ground which can bring scholars together. However, many scholarly approaches to the study of cities can be quite narrow and divided in terms of periodization, geography and methodology. This 27

28 symposium suggests that a wider focus on the study of cities can work to diffuse the boundaries between departments, universities, and even countries and foster a multi-disciplinary approach to research. On April 27th ARHA Students welcomed speakers from five different countries and ten different universities. The topics ranged from the relationship of Hellenistic sanctuaries and cities, Byzantine urban monastic culture, various periods of Ottoman municipal development and the preservation of historic sites within cities. Together these papers create engaging dialogues that raise many interesting points about the urban dynamics of various periods in Anatolia. The keynote speech was delivered by Prof. Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu from Boğaziçi University. Her talk was titled Lineaments of an Early Modern Urban Image: Cartography, chorography, and narrative in Ottoman representations of Istanbul. The papers presented in the symposium The extra-urban Sanctuary and City: Claros, a Sanctuary with two Cities, Gülşah Günata, Koç University. Private Benefaction in the Greek Cities of Asia Minor: Re-Urbanization under the Roman Rule, Aygün Kalınbayrak Ercan, Middle East Technical University. Performing Columns: The Column Monuments of Early Constantinople, Pelin Yoncacı, University of California Los Angeles. Notes on the Development of the Countryside of Myra in the Early Byzantine Period, Canan Arıkan, Koç University. Urban Monasticism and Philanthropy in the Late Antique and Byzantine Periods, Tyler Wolford, Koç University. Konya and Sivas: Imperial vs. Civic? The Architectural History of Two Cities in 13th Century Anatolia, Sophia Vassilopoulou, Freie Universitaet Berlin. The Old Seraglio in the Modernizing Istanbul, Nilay Özlü, Boğaziçi University. In the Search of a Normative Spatial Pattern for the Proto-Ottoman City: Bursa and Dimetoka in a Typo-Morphological Dialogue, Ourania Bessi, University of Birmingham. A Comparative Analysis of Urban Transformation in Salonica and Izmir: The Formatıon of Hamidiye and Alsanca Districts, Günseli Gürel, Boğaziçi University. Building the Nation at the Crossroads of East and West : Izmir and Thessaloniki , Kalliopi Amygdalou, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. The Northern Shore of the Golden Horn in the 17th Century: The Development of the Urban Landscape and its Reflections in Social Life, Ayşe Pınar Gökpınar, New York University. Istanbul and Rio de Janeiro: Historical and Current Comparisons, Monique Sochaczewski, FGV - Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janerio. 28

29 Re-existence and Presentation of a Historic City Center: Hamamönü, Elif Sudan, Middle East Technical University. The Role of Community Participation in Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Urban and Rural Context, Aslı Zeren, Politecnico di Milano. PhD Acceptance Received in Psychology Duygu Biricik Eda Anlamlıer Ceren Yalın Elif Gözde İkizer Nazlı Altınok Özge Savaş Burçak Aktürk Başar Demir Leuphana Universitat in Lüneburg University of Illinois Tufts University - Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development University of Connecticut Central European University- Cognative Sciences- To be attending University of St. Andrews-Origins of Mind University of Georgia Brain and Behavioral Sciences Georgia State University-Cognative Sciences University of Michigan- Joint PhD Program in Women's Studies and Psychology University of Southern Denmark Center for Child Language Middle Eastern Technical University- Social Psychology International Relations Ömer Faruk Örsün Harvard University or University of California, Davis M. Tahir Kılavuz University of Notre Dame Ayşen Ezgi Üstübici İmren Borsuk University of Amsterdam Queen's University of Belfast (Visiting Fellow) Archaeology and History of Art William James Harper Yale University Gözde Çörekçioğlu Ahmet Arda Gitmez Serhat Uğurlu EconomicS European University Institute, Florance Massachusetts Institute of Technology Norwegian School of Economics 29

30 Melisa Şaylı Duygu Özdemir University of Manchester University of Essex Other Internships and Recuitments: Koç University Psychology MA Graduate Tilbe Göksun, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania has been offered a position at Koç University. Gonca Dardeniz is now a PhD student in ARHA department has received a Suna İnan Kıraç Akdeniz Medeniyetleri Araştırma Enstitüsü grant to do analyses on her glass samples from Alalakh. She will be going to Nottingham University in the spring semester 2014 to study with Prof. Julian Henderson on an Erasmus exchange program. Muge Bulu, MA ARHA Graduate and presently the Archaeology Laboratory Director and will be applying to our PhD program. She currently holds a TUBITAK grant from the Hittite Map project to study the LBA pottery of the Amuq Valley survey. Erin Minnaugh, MA ARHA student has started an internship with Art and Restoration, the company, which is designing the installation of the new Hatay Archaeological Museum. Bengi Atun, PhD ARHA student is likely to do a Intership this summer at The Oakland Museum San Francisco. Yasemin Özarslan, PhD ARHA student "Research Associate, Newcastle University, School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Yasemin was initially accepted under the ERASMUS grant but was offered this title as she started the program. İmren Borsuk, PhD Student was admitted as a Visiting Researcher Associate to Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom and to European Center for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany. Burçak Aktürk, MA PSYCH 2012 Graduate, was offered a position as a part-time lecturer between September 2012-August 2013, Department of Psychology & Department of Guidance and Psychological Counselling, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey.Introduction to Psychology, Statistics. Burçak will be attending Institute of Language and Communication, Center for Child Language, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark PhD Program in Fall Şebnem Nasır, MA PSYCH 2012 Graduate has been recruited as Human Resources Management Consultant at Profil International & Odgers Berndtson. 30