FAIK GÜR EDUCATION

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1 FAIK GÜR EDUCATION Ph.D. December 2006 Department of History in conjunction with the Department of Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin (UT) Dissertation: Sculpting Turkish Nationalism: Atatürk Monuments in Early Republican Turkey Supervisor: Abraham Marcus, professor of social and cultural history of the early modern and modern Middle East, Department of History, UT. MA August 2000 The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) in conjunction with the Department of Anthropology, UT. Thesis: Visualizing Turkish Nationalism Adviser: Nina Berman, professor of Germanic Studies and CMES, UT. MA The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History in conjunction with the Department of Sociology, Boğaziçi University (BU), İstanbul, (all but degree) Thesis: History of Agrarian Transformation in an Anatolian Village Adviser: Çağlar Keyder, professor of sociology at Binghamton University and Bogaziçi University. BA Political Science and Public Administration, unofficial minor in sociology, Middle East Technical University (METU). TEACHING EXPERIENCE Fall Lecturer, History Program, Sabancı University Courses Taught: Doctoral-Master Level Courses Sources & Methods for Early Republican History ( ) Sources & Methods for Early Republican History ( ) Explorations in World History I (Historical Sociology I) Explorations in World History II (Historical Sociology II) Art and Power (Politics of Art and Architecture in Turkey, Italy, Germany and the Soviet Union between two World Wars)

December 2006 Department of History in conjunction with the Department of Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin (UT) Dissertation: Sculpting Turkish Nationalism: Atatürk Monuments in Early

2 Undergraduate Level Courses Art and Power (art and architectural culture, especially figurative and abstract monuments and statues of the late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey compared to other countries, especially the Russian Empire/Soviet Union)- upper division History of Modern Turkey (since 1908)-lover division Spring 2003-Fall 2004 Associate Instructor, Department of History, UT Courses Taught: Introduction to Turkish History and Culture (since 1800s) undergraduate-upper division History of the Arab People, undergraduate-upper division United States of America since 1865-lower division Fall 2002 Associate Instructor, in charge of Turkish Studies Program, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, UT Courses Taught: Courses in Turkish Language and Literature, undergraduategraduate Fall 1998-Spring 2001 Teaching Assistant Turkish Studies Program, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, UT Teaching Assistant The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, BU RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN HISTORICAL STUDIES Fall 2007 Project Coordinator for initial preparation of the project, 600 Hundred Years of an Anatolian Village, to be submitted to TUBİTAK for a possible grant. Spring-Fall 2007 Project manager Online Turkish Cinema Archive: A Searchable Data Base ( ), Faculty of Communication, Bilgi University Spring 2003-Fall 2004 Project manager Personal Digital Archive on Early Republican Turkey supported by the Department of History, UT. This is the largest personal digital archive on Early Republican Turkey. It consists of primary documents, collected from five different cities (Istanbul, Ankara,

Courses Taught: Introduction to Turkish History and Culture (since 1800s) undergraduate-upper division History of the Arab People, undergraduate-upper division United States of America since

3 Samsun, Afyon, and İzmir) and 15 different local and national archives. It also includes major newspapers and periodicals published between 1923 and Fall 2001 Research Assistant CMES, UT Developed a reading packet for a course on Shia Islam and Modern Iranian History. Fall 2000 Research Assistant CMES, UT Developed a reading packet for a course on Islam, Art, Gender, and Politics RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES Fall Fall 1997 Field Research for MA thesis, Boğaziçi University Project: Agrarian Transformation in a C-type Anatolian Village Supervisor: Prof.Dr.Çağlar Keyder Summer 1994 Project Coordinator, Turkish Folklore Society, METU Project: Cultural and Economic Transformation in an Anatolian Village Summer 1994 Data Analysts/ Interviewer, Department of Sociology, METU Project: Agrarian Transformation in the Aegean Region Project by Prof. Dr. Korkut Boratav and Prof. Dr Mehmet Ecevit Summer 1992-Fall 1994 Interviewer/ Data Analysts, Department of Sociology, METU Project: MISKETBA (Social transformation in classes among residence in squatter settlements in Ankara) Project by Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ecevit December 1993 Project Coordinator, Turkish Folklore Society, METU Project: Pastoral Nomads in the Adana Region Supervisor: Associate Prof. Sharon Baştuğ RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN LANGUAGE STUDIES Fall 2004-Spring 2005 Executive Coordinator CMES, UT

Fall 2000 Research Assistant CMES, UT Developed a reading packet for a course on Islam, Art, Gender, and Politics RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES Fall 1996- Fall 1997 Field Research for

4 Project: Turkish through Short Stories for the third-year Turkish. Developing an interactive course book for newly created third-year Turkish. Fall 2002-Fall 2003 Research Assistant CMES, UT Project: 101 Turkish Idiomatic Expressions, Dunwoody Press, 2004 Fall Project Coordinator CMES, UT Project: Practice Your Turkish Online RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Sociological History of Modern Middle East, specialization in Political, Social and Cultural History of Modern Turkey. World History, Historical Sociology: structural transformation of agrarian societies, specialization in Anatolia (1800-onwards) Modern Political Theory, Historiography, Nationalism, High Modernisms History of urban development in the 19 th and 20 th centuries. PUBLICATIONS Abide-i Cumhuriyet (Monuments of the Republic/ The Monumental Republic) (forthcoming), İletişim Yayınları, expected publication date: Summer Atatürk heykelleri ve Türkiye de resmi tarihin görselleşmesi (Atatürk Statues and Visualization of Official History in Turkey), Toplum ve Bilim, Fall 2001, 90, pp Uşak Araştırması Raporu (A Report on the Transformation of Agrarian Structures in an Anatolian Village), Halkbilim (Folklore), 1999, issue 7, 8 & 9. Son Göçebeler ve Hayatta Kalma Savaşları (Last Nomads and Their War for Survival), Folklore/Edebiyat (Folklore/Literature), March, 1997, 9, pp WORK IN PROGRESS Sculpting National Identity in Turkey: Taksim Square and the Taksim Monument, an academic article to be submitted to the Journal of Historical Geography. Is the Statue of Liberty an Ottoman Statue?, a documentary to be submitted to the History Channel. Online Turkish Cinema Archive, a searchable data base on the history of Turkish Cinema in coloration with the Faculty of Communication at Bilgi University. A Monograph of an Anatolian Village, a project to be submitted to TUBİTAK for possible grant. PRESENTATIONS-TALKS

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Sociological History of Modern Middle East, specialization in Political, Social and Cultural History of Modern Turkey.

5 Sources of Official Ideology in Early Republican Turkey, Yıldız University, Political Science and International Relations, March Art, Power, and Politics in the Early Republican Turkey, Orient Institute-Istanbul, 2006 'Rites et Symboles Politiques de la Turquie I, II & III, IFEA, Reading the city through Statues and Monuments, Department of Sociology, Mimar Sinan University, July 2005 Sculpting Turkish Nationalism: Atatürk Statues, Department of History, Bilgi University, May 2005 Politics of Statuary, Faculty of Communication, Bahçeşehir University, July 2005 Monuments and Nationalism, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring Görselleşen Tarih, Toplumsal Araştırmalar Vakfı, Ankara, December, GRANTS Spring 2007 Spring 2004 Spring 2003 Fall 2003 Spring 2002 Fall 2001 Fall 2000 Spring 1999 Research Grant, Bilgi University Research Grant, Gardner F. Marston Endowed History Scholarship Dora Foundation Travel Grant, UT Dora Foundation Travel Grant, UT Graduate School Travel Grant, UT Liberal Arts Research Grant, UT Liberal Arts Research Grant, UT University of Texas Continuing Fellowship, UT ORGANIZATION, LEADERSHIP AND COORDINATION ACTIVITIES Committee Member Leading Coordinator Executive Coordinator Committee Member Liberal Arts Research Grant, Liberal Arts, CMES, UT Fall 2003 Panel and film festival, Cinematic Expressions: Visions of Modernity in Turkey, 10 movies, 10 Scholars, UT, Spring 2003 Academic talk, AKP and Secularization in Turkey, by Haldun Güllap, Professor at Boğaziçi University supported by CMES, UT, Fall 2002 Liberal Arts Research Grant, Liberal Arts, CMES, UT, Fall 2002

Monuments, Department of Sociology, Mimar Sinan University, July 2005 Sculpting Turkish Nationalism: Atatürk Statues, Department of History, Bilgi University, May 2005 Politics of Statuary, Faculty

6 Executive Coordinator Academic talk, Comparative Analysis of the Great Depression by Şevket Pamuk, Professor at BU supported by CMES, Fall 2001 LANGUAGES Turkish: native speaker Ottoman Turkish: matbu English: fluent French: Basic COMPUTER SKILLS Adobe Premier-Film Editing, Photoshop, Web-design, Digital Cameras AFFILIATIONS AND EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES 2007-present EKOTOPYA (Ekolojik Ütopyalar Derneği) 2002-present American Research Institute in Turkey Anatolian Cultural Studies Association, UT Turkish University Student Association, UT Turkish Folklore Society, METU

Web-design, Digital Cameras AFFILIATIONS AND EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES 2007-present EKOTOPYA (Ekolojik Ütopyalar Derneği) 2002-present American

Department of Sociology Beytepe Campus, Ankara

Curriculum Vitae Name Görkem Akgöz Place of Birth Ankara, Turkey Date of Birth 22 May 1980 University Address Hacettepe University Department of Sociology Beytepe Campus, Ankara Office phone 00 90 312