DENİZ T. KILINÇOĞLU. 110 Jones Hall Princeton, NJ, Department of Near Eastern Studies Princeton University

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1 DENİZ T. KILINÇOĞLU EDUCATION Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies,, June 2012 (expected) Dissertation Title: The Political Economy of Ottoman Modernity: Ottoman Economic Thought during the Reign of Abdülhamid II ( ) Adviser: M. Şükrü Hanioğlu Summary: My dissertation is the first comprehensive study of Ottoman economic thought within the context of modernization in the Hamidian period ( ) of the late Ottoman Empire. It focuses on the contesting approaches to the question of economic development which shaped the Ottoman modernization project in this era. It also investigates the impact of modern economic ideas on Ottoman society through mass media and popular works of fiction. Based on a broad array of primary sources from textbooks and manuals of economics to memoirs and popular fiction, my dissertation reveals the economic ideology which marked Ottoman modernity of the late nineteenth century. - The Teaching Transcript Program,, December 2011 (expected) A pedagogical training program to enhance and document effective teaching skills. M.A. in Near Eastern Studies,, 2008 Fields: Late Ottoman History (M. Şükrü Hanioğlu); Modern Middle Eastern History (Bernard Haykel); Economic and Social History of the Medieval Middle East (Abraham L. Udovitch) M.S. in Economics, Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey), 2005 Thesis: Interpretive Schemes and Ottoman Historiography in the Twentieth Century (Adviser: Eyüp Özveren) B.S. in Economics (with honors), Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey),

2 RESEARCH Publications - "Osmanlı-Türk Yazınında Milli İktisat Düşüncesinin Doğuşu" (in Turkish, "The Emergence of the 'National-Economy' Program in Ottoman-Turkish Economic Thought") in Eyüp Özveren (ed.) Milli İktisat (National Economy), forthcoming in Spring "Weber, Veblen ve Ahmed Midhat Efendi'nin Kahramanları," (in Turkish, Weber, Veblen and the Characters of Ahmed Midhat Efendi ) Eyüp Özveren (ed.), Kurumsal İktisat (Institutional Economics), İstanbul: İmge Yayınevi, 2006, pp "Protestan Ahlak, Gösterişli Tüketim ve 19. Yüzyıl Osmanlı İktisat Düşüncesi: Ahmet Mithat Efendi," (in Turkish, "Protestant Ethics, Conspicuous Consumption and the 19 th Century Ottoman Economic Thought: The Case of Ahmed Midhat Efendi ), Fuat Ercan, Yüksel Akkaya (eds.), Kapitalizm ve Türkiye 1: Kapitalizm, Tarih ve Ekonomi, Ankara: Dipnot Yayınları, 2005, pp Conferences - "From Indolent to Industrious: The Evolution of Modern Ottoman Identity," Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting 2011, December 1-4, 2011, Washington, DC. - Storytelling as Investment: Novel as a Tool of Economic Development in the Late Ottoman Empire Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting 2010, November 18-21, 2010, San Diego, CA. - Forging the Ottoman Modernity : Ottoman Economic Thought in the Late Nineteenth Century, Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting 2009, November 21-24, 2009, Boston, MA. - Current Trends in Economics and Economics Education in Turkey (as a part of the Roundtable Discussion on the Graduate Studies in Economics ) Gazi University Biannual Congress on Economics (Ekonomik Yaklaşım Kongresi) October 19-21, 2005, Ankara-Turkey. - Protestant Ethics, Conspicuous Consumption and the 19th Century Ottoman Economic Thought: The Case of Ahmed Midhat Efendi ("Protestan Ahlak Gösterişli Tüketim ve 19. Yüzyıl Osmanlı İktisat Düşüncesi: Ahmet Mithat Efendi"), 8th National Congress of Social Sciences, December 3-5, 2003, Ankara, Turkey. RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Ottoman Economic Thought; Intellectual, Economic and Social History of the late Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic; The Ottoman Novel; Modern Iran; Social and Economic History of the Middle East; Global History of Capitalism; History of Economic Thought 2

3 LANGUAGES Turkish (native); Ottoman Turkish (reading); Persian (reading/writing/speaking fluent); Arabic (reading); Azeri (reading, written in Cyrillic, Perso-Arabic and Latin scripts); Spanish (reading); French (reading); German (reading) TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant,, - Iran since the Revolution (NES 321/POL 369), Prof. Mirjam Künkler, Fall Introduction to the Middle East (NES 201/HIS 223), Prof. Michael Cook, Fall Oil, Energy and the Middle East (NES 266/ENV266), Prof. Bernard Haykel, Spring Political and Economic Development of the Middle East (NES 265/POL 268), Prof. Mirjam Künkler, Fall Political Islam (NES 268/POL 376), Prof. Julie Taylor, Fall Teaching Assistant, Çankaya University, Department of Economics (Ankara, Turkey) - Economic History (ECON 204), Prof. Osman Aray, Spring History of Economic Thought (ECON 304), Prof. Osman Aray, Spring Teaching Assistant, Middle East Technical University, Department of Economics (Ankara, Turkey) - Economy, Society and Civilization II (ECON 108), Prof. Onur Yıldırım, Spring Statistics for Economists II (ECON 206), Prof. Erkan Erdil, Fall OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Research Assistant, Çankaya University, Department of Economics (Ankara, Turkey), Prof. Osman Aray (fields: history of economic thought; economic history), February 2005 August Undergraduate Advisor, Çankaya University, Department of Economics, February August Research Assistant, Project Title: Industrial Structure and Labor Markets: A Study on Productivity Growth, Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, November - December Translator (English into Turkish), Diplomacy and Displacement: Reconsidering the Turco-Greek Exchange of Populations, , (Türk-Yunan Mübadelesinin Öteki Yüzü: Diplomasi ve Göç, Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2006) Onur Yıldırım, May - August

4 LECTURES AND TALKS,, - Iranian Cinema after the Revolution, lecture given in the course, Iran since the Revolution, Prof. Mirjam Künkler, October 27, "A Summer in Iran during the Presidential Election Crisis" (with Eric Lob and Sevil Çakır), Brown Bag Lunch Series, February 1, Iranian Presidential Election, lecture given in the course, Introduction to the Middle East (Prof. Michael Cook), November 11, Economics in the Ottoman Empire, lecture given in the course, Introduction to the Middle East (Prof. Michael Cook), October 21, A Turk in Iran during the Elections, Turkish Lunch Talk, October 2, Languages of the Middle East, lecture given in the course, Introduction to the Middle East, Prof. Michael Cook, September 23, Çankaya University, Department of Economics (Ankara, Turkey) - Heterodox Economics, lecture given in the course, History of Economic Thought (Prof. Osman Aray), Spring Economic History of the Early Turkish Republic, lecture given in the course, Economic History (Prof. Osman Aray), Spring UNIVERSITY SERVICE, - Chair of the Graduate Student Committee, since May Graduate Student Government Representative of the Near Eastern Studies Department, September 2009 November Çankaya University, Department of Economics (Ankara, Turkey) - Member, Curriculum Revision Committee, Fall MAJOR SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS AND GRANTS Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), PIIRS Graduate Fellow, Ladislas Pathy Scholarship (for academic excellence and exceptional promise as a scholar), Grant for Research and Language Studies (Tehran, Iran), Summer Münir Ertegün Foundation, Funding for Summer Language Studies (Persian Summer School at Dehkhoda Institute, Tehran, Iran), Summer Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Summer Language Studies Support (Persian Summer School at Dehkhoda Institute, Tehran, Iran), Summer

5 Münir Ertegün Foundation, Pre-Dissertation Research Award (for archival and library research in İstanbul, Turkey), Summer Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Pre-Dissertation Research Award (for archival and library research in İstanbul, Turkey), Summer Münir Ertegün Foundation, Funding for Summer Language Studies (Arabic Summer School, Damascus, Syria), Summer Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Summer Language Studies Support (Arabic Summer School, Damascus, Syria), Summer University Fellowship for PhD Studies,, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Scholarship from the Turkish Ministry of Education for university education in the US or Britain (upon high score in the Nationwide University Entrance Exam, 1998; ranking: 118 th among over 1.5 million participants) declined. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP Middle East Studies Association 5

6 REFERENCES M. Şükrü Hanioğlu Garrett Professor in Foreign Affairs; Professor of Near Eastern Studies Michael A. Cook Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies Bernard Haykel Professor of Near Eastern Studies; Director, Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia ADDITIONAL REFERENCES UPON REQUEST Eyüp Özveren Professor of Economics; Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey) Onur Yıldırım Professor of Economic History Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey) 6