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1 2/2016 BILGE FIRAT 36 Park Terrace Place, Binghamton, NY (607) (607) EDUCATION Ph.D., Binghamton University, Anthropology, 2011 M.A., Binghamton University, Anthropology, 2006 B.Sc., Middle East Technical University, Sociology, 2002 Certificate, Baku Summer Energy School, Caspian Center for Energy and Environment, Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, 2015 EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Istanbul Technical U (tenure-track) Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Binghamton U Lecturer, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Istanbul Technical U Visiting Faculty Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Binghamton U 2013 Visiting Research Associate, Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, Binghamton U Research Associate, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Istanbul Technical U Visiting Researcher, Centre de recherche en ethnologie européenne, Université Libre de Bruxelles PUBLICATIONS Edited Volumes 2014a Special Issue on Culture, Power, and Policymaking in the New Europe. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Vol. 23 Issue 1, (

2 Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles In press Political Documents and Bureaucratic Entrepreneurs: Lobbying the European Parliament during Turkey s EU Integration. Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Forthcoming in November The Most Eastern of the West, the Most Western of the East : Energy- Transport Infrastructures and Regional Politics of the Periphery in Turkey. Economic Anthropology 3(1): b 2014c Crisis, Power, and Policymaking in the New Europe: Why Should Anthropologists Care? Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 23(1):1-20 (DOI: /ajec ). The Accession Pedagogy: Power, Policy, and Politics in Turkey s Bid for EU Membership. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 23(1): (DOI: /ajec ) Failed Promises: Economic Integration, Bureaucratic Encounters, and the EU-Turkey Customs Union. Dialectical Anthropology 37(1):1-26 (DOI: /s ) Negotiating Europe/Avrupa: Prelude for an Anthropological Approach to Turkish Europeanization and the Cultures of EU lobbying in Brussels. European Journal of Turkish Studies, 9 Special Issue on EU-Turkey: Sociological Approaches (online available at Other Writings 2015 White Elephants and Cannibals through the Glass Wall of Policymaking in Euroland: Enlargement, Energy, and Infrastructure. CritCom (Reviews & Critical Commentary) of the Council for European Studies, September 16 (invited, online available at Europeanization alla Turca? A Communicative Engagement Event Towards the Positive Agenda. The Wenner Gren Blog (online available at: Manuscripts in Progress Book: Article: The Private Life of Politics: Turkey s Europeanization, Lobbying and Bureaucratic Politics in Brussels. Book manuscript prepared for Indiana University Press, New Anthropologies of Europe Series. Steel(ed) Interests: Lobbying and the Political Economy of Turkey s Non-Membership in the EU, under review by Focaal Firat 2

3 GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2015 Partial Tuition, Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy 2015 Grant, University Research Fund, Istanbul Technical U 2015 Grant, International Society for Ethnology and Folklore/Wenner Gren Foundation 2013 Engaged Anthropology Grant, Wenner Gren Foundation 2012 Grant, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey 2012 Grant, University Research Fund, Istanbul Technical U 2009 Richard T. Antoun Fellowship, Binghamton U Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Wenner Gren Foundation Graduate Scholarship, Council for Higher Education of Turkey RESEARCH Energy Transport Infrastructures and Regional Integration around the Bosphorus: Material Futures or Political Dreamscapes? Solo Project Multi-sited research; preliminary fieldwork conducted in Istanbul and Ankara (Spring and Summer 2013, Fall 2014) and Baku (Summer 2015); funding application to SSRC, InterAsia Program, Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellowship: InterAsian Contexts and Connections pending Fall Research-Related Academic Work: Academic audit, Energy Economics and Politics, Energy Institute, Istanbul Technical U, Spring 2013 The Negotiation of Turkish Europeanization in Brussels Dissertation Fieldwork Fieldwork conducted in Brussels, Istanbul and Ankara during July 2005 and September 2007-June 2009; funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation (Grant #7783). Research-Related Non-Academic Work in Brussels: Internship at ABHaber/EU-Turkey News Network (2009); Network Officer at TR PLUS Centre for Turkey in Europe ( ); Internship at the European Economic and Social Committee (General Affairs Directorate, Interinstitutional Relations and Relations with National Economic and Social Committees, 2008); Internship at the Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen s Association, Representation to the EU (2005) Research-Related Media Coverage: Run-up to Swedish EU presidency: Turkey-EU Blame Game. By Anna Paton. cafebabel.com. The European Magazine, May 28, 2009 (online access: presidency.html) Lobbying in Brussels, the Turkish Case. Centre for Turkey in Europe. EU-Turkey Update. Issue 4/May, 2009, pp Isolated Imprisonment in the US and Turkey: Its Effects and Prisoner Responses, Firat 3

4 with Denis O Hearn, Department of Sociology, Binghamton U, Collaborative Project Geography of Innovation: An Oral History of Industry in the Southern Tier , under the auspices of the Center for Technology and Innovation and the Departments of Anthropology and History, Binghamton U, Collaborative Project DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES Conference/Panel Organizations 2015 Panel co-organizer, Olive Futures: Ethnographies of a Delicious Kind, 12 th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, June Rountable organizer, Europeanization alla Turca? A Communicative Engagement Event, European Parliament, Brussels, September 17 (see blog.wennergren.org/2014/08/engaged-anthropology-grant-bilgefirat/) 2012 Panel co-organizer, Culture, Power and Policy in the New Europe I: Refocusing the Anthropological Purview on the Politics of Culture, City, Migration and Enlargement, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November Panel co-organizer, Culture, Power and Policy in the New Europe II: Refocusing the Anthropological Purview on the Politics of Gender, Agriculture and Finance, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November Paper Presentations 2015 Carving Turkey: Material Development, Infrastructural Power, and Land Appropriation around Bosporus, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November Carving Turkey: Material Development, Infrastructural Power, and Land Appropriation around Bosporus, Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, October In Pursuit of the Undying tree : Power, Capital and Regional Inequality in Southeast Europe, 12 th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, June Energy and Transport Infrastructures and Peripheral Politics around the Bosphorus, Society for Economic Anthropology Annual Meeting Energy and Economy, April Energy Infrastructures and the Politics of the Periphery, Council for European Studies Conference, March Political Documents and Bureaucratic Entrepreneurs: Lobbying the Firat 4

5 European Parliament during Turkey s EU Integration, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Binghamton U, February Energy Infrastructures and Politics of the Periphery, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November Infrastructure and Regional Integration around the Bosphorus: Material Futures or Political Dreamscapes?, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Binghamton U, October Europeanization alla Turca? Bridging Communicative Divides across the Bosphorus, European Parliament, September The Most Eastern of the West, the Most Western of the East : Rethinking the EU s Enlargement Policy and Accession Pedagogy Towards Turkey, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November Policy Communities, Symbolic Politics and Lobbying for Turkey s EU Accession in Brussels, Italian Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September The Accession Pedagogy: Power and Politics in Turkey s Bid for EU Membership, Crisis & Critique Conference, Sakarya U, April Technification and Politicization in Turkey s EU Accession, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November Turkish Europeanization, European Integration and the Cultures of EU Lobbying, Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, August Lobbying, Trains, and other EU Business: An Anthropological Inquiry into Turkey s Accession to the European Union, First Annual Conference and Research Workshop of the Binghamton/Cornell Consortium for the Anthropology of Europe, September 10 Panels Chaired 2015 Olive Futures: Ethnographies of a Delicious Kind, 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, June Within and Without: Factors Influencing European Policy Making on the Environment, Council for European Studies Conference, March (invited) 2012 Prisons and Academia, Prisons and the Society Forums, organized by CISST and Bogazici U, December Culture, Power and Policy in the New Europe II: Refocusing the Anthropological Purview on the Politics of Gender, Agriculture and Finance, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November Firat 5

6 Campus and Invited Talks 2012 Lobbying Common European Interests: The T. File of Steel and Turkey s Accession Negotiations, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Istanbul Technical U, February Négocier l Europe/Avrupa: prélude à une approche anthropologique sur l intégration européenne de la Turquie. Centre de recherches en ethnologie européenne, Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Unité de recherche en communication, Université Catholique de Louvain under the auspices of the Graduate School of Social Sciences (EDTSS) of the French Community of Belgium, March 17 TEACHING Underworlds: Social Lives of Infrastructures (advanced undergraduate) Globalization: Tales from the Dark Side (undergraduate) Comparative Social Development (advanced undergraduate) Anthropology of Sex/uality Binghamton U The Body (graduate) Visual Anthropology (undergraduate, TAed) Political Anthropology (undergraduate, TAed) Globalization and International Relations (undergraduate) Issues in World Politics Istanbul Technical U Energy, Transport and Society (graduate) Science & Technology Policies (graduate) Courses Prepared To Teach: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology * Globalization: the Dark Side * Energy, Transport & Society * Underworlds: Social Lives of Infrastructures * Critical Development SERVICE To Profession Publications and Project Chair, Society for the Anthropology of Europe 2014 Program Reviewer, Council for European Studies Conference To University 2015 Performance Evaluation and Post Tenure Review Committee, Istanbul Firat 6

7 Technical U Undergraduate Committee, Department of Sociology, Binghamton U Advisory Committee for the MA Program in Science and Technology in Society, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Istanbul Technical U Advisory Committee for the PhD Program in Political and Social Thought, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Istanbul Technical U (principal author of the PhD Program Proposal & 2013 Strategy Report) Advisory Committee for the MA Program in Political Studies, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Istanbul Technical U (principal author of the 2012 Strategy Report) NETWORKING American Anthropological Association * Society for the Anthropology of Europe * Cornell-Binghamton Consortium in the Anthropology of Europe (founding student member) * European Association of Social Anthropologists * Association for the Anthropology of Policy * Association for Political and Legal Anthropology * Society for Economic Anthropology * Council of European Studies and CES Research Network on European Integration and the Global Political Economy * International Society for Ethnology and Folklore REFERENCES Thomas M. Wilson, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Binghamton U, State University of New York, PO Box 6000, Binghamton, NY , Tel: , twilson@binghamton.edu Aydan Turanli, Professor and Chair to the Department, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Istanbul Technical U, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Ayazaga Campus, Istanbul, Turkey, Tel: , turanliay@itu.edu.tr Douglas Rogers, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale U, P.O. Box , New Haven, CT , Tel: , doug.rogers@yale.edu Carmen A. Ferradas, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Binghamton U, State University of New York, PO Box 6000, Binghamton, NY , Tel: , ferrada@binghamton.edu Firat 7