Alev Çınar Curriculum Vitae CURRENT POSITION Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration Bilkent University, Turkey EDUCATION 1998 Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Pennsylvania Dissertation Title: Bodies, Places and Time: Islamic Visibilities in the Public Sphere and Contestations of Secular Modernity in Turkey 1988 M.A. in Sociology, Boğaziçi University, Turkey 1983 B.A. with Special Honors in Psychology, Boğaziçi University, Turkey 1978-80 Chemistry, Boğaziçi University, Turkey RESEARCH INTERESTS Intellectual foundations of politics and political institutions; the relationships between political philosophy, political ideologies, and the practice of politics; political theory in Turkey; nationalism; nation building as an ongoing process; formation of the national subject in relation to ethnicity, gender, religion (Islam), class; nation-building, modernity, secularism, and Islam in Turkey; Islamic, national and secular identities in Turkey; politics, popular culture, media, television and cinema in Turkey; subject formation; the public sphere, the media and the imagination as instruments of nation building; citizenship and national belonging; the politics of daily life; the public sphere and urban space; media, imagination and culture; politics of modernity, secularism and religion; social and cultural dimensions of globalization; emerging localisms in the face of globalization. AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2012-13 Membership, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 2008 Distinguished Teacher Award, Bilkent University, Ankara 2006 April Turkish Higher Education Council (YÖK) Associate Professor title 2005 Sept. Fulbright Visiting Specialist, Bryn Mawr College, PA Program on Direct Access to the Muslim World 2003-4 Social Science Research Council, International Collaborative Research Grant from the Program on the Middle East & North Africa Fall 2001 Ford Associateship in Global Women's Studies The Five College Women's Studies Research Center, Massachusetts 2001/2002 German and American Young Scholars' Institute Fellowships, Summer Workshops, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin 1998-9 Mellon Foundation/Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Fellowship, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University, NY 1
1997-8 Women s Studies Dissertation Writing Grant, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, PA 1995-6 United States Institute of Peace Scholarship, Peace Scholar Dissertation Grant 1995 Ford Foundation Grant, Dissertation Proposal Development Grant for Summer Research 1991-2 Fulbright Grant for Ph.D. students, Institute of International Education 1983 Special Honors in Psychology, and Second Place graduation in the School of Social Sciences, Boğaziçi University, Turkey PUBLICATIONS Books: Alev Çınar, Locating Political Theory: Globalized Intellectual Traditions merge with Islamic Knowledges in Turkey, in preparation. Alev Çınar, Globalism as the Product of Nationalism: Imaginings of the Globe as part of National Discourses in Turkey, in preparation. Alev Çınar, Srirupa Roy and Maha Yahya, (ed.) Visualizing Secularism and Religion: Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India. Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2012. Alev Çınar and Thomas Bender (ed.), Urban Imaginaries: Locating the Modern City, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. Alev Çınar, Modernity, Islam and Secularism in Turkey: Bodies, Places and Time, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Journal Articles: Alev Çınar and Hakkı Tas, Diverse Nationalisms: Primordialist Secularism and anti-westernism of the Ulusalcı Nationalism in Turkey, Nations and Nationalism, in review Alev Çınar, The Justice and Development Party: Turkey s Experience with Islam, Democracy, Liberalism and Secularism International Journal of Middle East Studies, 43, 2011, 529 541. Alev Çınar, Globalism as the Product of Nationalism: Founding Ideology and the Erasure of the Local in Turkey Theory, Culture and Society, 27 (4), July 2010, 90-118. Alev Çınar, Subversion and Subjugation in the Public Sphere: Secularism and the Islamic Headscarf Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 33 (4), August 2008, 891-913. Alev Çınar, Secularism and Islamic Modernism in Turkey Etnografica v.10 (1), 2006, 85-96. Alev Çınar and Burak Arıkan, The Nationalist Action Party: Representing the State, the Nation or the Nationalists? Turkish Studies, 3 (1), Spring 2002, 25-40. Alev Çınar, National History as a Contested Site: The Conquest of Istanbul and Islamist Negotiations of the Nation Comparative Studies in Society and History, 43 (2), April 2001, 364-391. Alev Çınar, Cartel in Rap i, Melezlik ve Milliyetciligin Sarsilan Sinirlari Doğu Batı, 4 (15), May-July 2001, 141-151. 2
Alev Çınar, Cartel: The Travels of German-Turkish Rap Music MERIP (Middle East Report), 29, 1999, 43-44. Alev Çınar, Refah Party and The City Administration of Istanbul: Islamism, Localism and Hybridity, New Perspectives on Turkey, 16, Spring 1997, 23-40. Book Chapters: Alev Çınar. State Building as an Urban Experience: The Making of Turkey s Capital City, in Power and Architechture, ed. Michael W. Minkenberg, New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming in 2014. Alev Çınar. Cities in The Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkey, eds. Metin Heper and Sabri Sayari, New York: Routledge, 2012. Alev Çınar, Srirupa Roy and Maha Yahya. Introduction: Religious Nationalism as a Consequence of Secularism in Visualizing Secularism and Religion: Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India, eds. Alev Çınar, Srirupa Roy and Maha Yahya. Michigan: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2012. Alev Çınar. Subversion and Subjugation in the Public Sphere: Secularism and the Islamic Headscarf in Visualizing Secularism and Religion: Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India, eds. Alev Çınar, Srirupa Roy and Maha Yahya. Michigan: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2012. Alev Çınar and Ergun Özbudun. Mesut Yılmaz in Türkiye de Liderler ve Demokrasi, eds. Metin Heper, Sabri Sayarı. Çev. Zuhal Bilgin. İstanbul: Kitap Yayınevi Ltd., 2008: 206-226. Alev Çınar and Thomas Bender. Introduction - The City: Experience, Imagination, and Place in Urban Imaginaries: Locating the Modern City, eds. Alev Çınar and Thomas Bender, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007: xi-xxvi. Alev Çınar. The Imagined Community as Urban Reality: The Making of Ankara, in Urban Imaginaries: Locating the Modern City, eds. Alev Çınar and Thomas Bender, University of Minnesota Press, 2007:151-181. Alev Çınar and Ergun Özbudun. Mesut Yılmaz: From Özal s Shadow to Mediator in Political Leaders and Democracy in Turkey, eds. Metin Heper and Sabri Sayarı, Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland, 2002: 181-198. Alev Çınar and Burak Arıkan. Nationalist Action Party: Representing the State, the Nation or the Nationalists? in Political Parties in Turkey, eds. B.Rubin & M.Heper, Frank Cass Publ., 2002: 25-40. Book Reviews: Puritan Islam: The Geoexpansion of the Muslim World, Barry A. Vann (New York: Prometheus Books, 2011) Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36:1, Jan2013, 219-220. Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey, Esra Özyürek (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006) International Journal of Turkish Studies, 14: 1-2, 2008, 161-2. The Politics of Public Memory in Turkey, Esra Özyürek (ed.) (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2007) International Journal of Turkish Studies, 14:1-2, 2008, 163-4. Citizenship in a Global World: European Questions and Turkish Experiences, E. Fuat Keyman and Ahmet İçduygu (eds.) [Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era] (New York: Routledge, 2005.) New Perspectives on Turkey, 36, 2007, 169-174. 3
Rethinking Islam and Liberal Democracy: Islamist Women in Turkish Politics, Yeşim Arat, (New York: State University of New York Press, September 2005). International Journal of Middle East Studies, 38: 3, 2006, 487-489. The Myth of the Military-Nation: Militarism, Gender, and Education in Turkey, Ayşe Gül Altınay (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). International Journal of Middle East Studies, 38:4, 2006, 601-603. Fragments of Culture: The Everyday of Modern Turkey Deniz Kandiyoti ve Ayşe Saktanber. (New York: I.B.Tauris & Co Publishers, 2002). H-Gender-MidEast, 1 August 2003. Turkey Today: A Nation Divided Over Islam s Revival Martine Howe, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 35: 1, 2001. RECENT LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS The Dilemma of Secularism in Turkey: Anti-Islamism versus Democracy, Conference titled Secularism and religiosity in South-Eastern Europe, 52th International University Week / Internationale Hochschulwoche, Tutzing, Germany, 8-11 October 2013 Merging of Western Intellectual Traditions with Islamic Thought in Turkey, New School for Social Research, Sociology Department Seminars, New York, 1 May 2013 "Locating Political Theory: Globalized Intellectual Traditions Merge with Islamic Thought in Turkey," Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science Seminars, 21 February 2013 Negotiating Turkish National Identity vis-à-vis the EU: The Ulusalcı Movement and the Rise of anti- Westernism in Turkey Conference on Politics, Identities and European Integration, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey, 29 May 2010. Globalization as the Product of Nationalism: Founding Ideology and the Erasure of the Local in Turkey Sabanci University, School of Arts and Sciences Seminars, Istanbul, 9 February, 2010. State and Nation-Building as an Urban Experience: The Making of Turkey s Capital City The Spring 2009 Max Weber Lecture Series, Conference titled Power & Architecture Reloaded: The Construction of Capitals (II). New York University, NY, 23 April, 2009. Courtroom Scenes in Turkish Film: Secularism and the State as the Dispenser of Justice American Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Washington D.C., USA, 28-30 November, 2007 Local productions of Globalized Knowledges: Academia and the Field of Political Theory in Turkey Conference on The Politics of Academic Knowledge in a Global Era: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Market Values, hosted by the International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University and the Institute of History Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 17-19 July 2007. State and Nation-Building as a Public Experience: The Formation of the Turkish State Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, Boston, USA, 17-21 Nov. 2006. Modernity, Islam and Secularism in Turkey, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. 15-18 June 2005. Gender, Islam and Women s Movements in Turkey, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA, 12 September 2005. Women, Islam and Politics in Turkey, Community College of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 16 September 2005. 4
Islamic Modernism in Turkey, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA. 13 September 2005. Islam, Modernity and Gender Opening lecture of the lecture series on The Middle East: Various Perspectives, Main Line School Night Lecture Series, Pennsylvania, USA. 20 September 2005. The City, the Body and the Nation: Negotiating a Place for Islam in Secular Spaces in Turkey Cairo Workshop on Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, American University in Cairo, Egypt, February 26-27, 2005. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2012-13 Institute for Advanced Study Membership Project: The Particularism of Political Theory: Globalized Intellectual Traditions meet Islamic Knowledges in Turkey 2010-11 Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, Bilkent University Project: Intellectual Foundations of the AKP (Justice and Development Party) 2007 Bilkent University Research Grant Project: Globalization as the Product of Nationalism: Founding Ideology and the Erasure of the Local in Turkey 2003-04 Social Science Research Council, International Collaborative Research Grant from the Program on the Middle East & North Africa Project: Icons, Images and Ideologies of Religion and Nation: Secularism, Religious Nationalism and the Public Sphere in Comparative Perspective Fall 2001 Ford Associateship in Global Women's Studies, The Five College Women's Studies Research Center Project: Gender and Images of Women in Turkish Cinema: Negotiations of Modernity, Nation and Citizenship 2001/2002 German and American Young Scholars' Institute Fellowships, Summer Workshops on Public Spheres and Muslim Identities, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin Project: The Constitutive Function of the Public Gaze: Building the Perimeters of the Public Sphere around Islam and Secularism in Turkey 1998-99 Mellon/Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow, Project on Cities and Urban Knowledges, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University Project: The Use of Public Space in the Making of National Identity in Turkey 1996-97 Research Assistant, Anspach Center for International Studies, University of Pennsylvania 1995-96 Dissertation Research, United States Institute of Peace Scholarship Dissertation Grant, Project Title: Clothing, Social Space and National History: Negotiations of Modernity, Nationalism and Secularism in Turkey 1983 Research Assistant to Prof. Çigdem Kagitcibasi, Research titled Value of Children and Socio-Economic Conditions Department of Psychology, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2013- Professor and Chair at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Bilkent University, Turkey 5
2012-13 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Sciences, Princeton, NJ, USA 2012 Professor and Chair at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Mugla University, Turkey 2010-11 Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, Bilkent University, Turkey 2009-10 Associate Professor, Department of International Relations and the European Union, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey 1999-2009 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science Bilkent University, Turkey 2005 Sept. Visiting Professor as Fulbright Specialist Bryn Mawr College: Modern Middle Eastern Cities Fall 2001 June 1996 Visiting Faculty, Women s Studies Department University of Massachusetts at Amherst Assistant Media Coordinator, United Nations Development Project Habitat II United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Istanbul, Turkey 1994-96 Instructor, International Politics International Relations Department, University of Pennsylvania 1992-94 Teaching Assistant, International Politics Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania 1988-91 Free-lance Translator/Interpreter, Turkish Radio and Television, Istanbul 1987-88 Reporter and Researcher, Research Department, Hürriyet Gazetesi (major national daily newspaper) Istanbul ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS Organized panel session titled Experiencing the Turkish State: Mourning, Marking, Remembering at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, Boston, USA, 17-21 Nov. 2006. Organized international workshop titled Secularism, Religious Nationalism, and the Public Sphere in Comparative Perspective, 15-17 October 2004, in Bilkent University. (http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/bilkent/academic/crts/act5.html). Organized panel session titled Discourses of Secularism and Religious Nationalism in Comparative Perspective at the American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, USA, 28-31 August 2003. Initiated and organized international conference titled Locating the City: The Idea, Place, Politics, and Everyday Practice of the Urban, held in Antalya, Turkey, May 2001 (http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/bilkent/academic/crts/act2.html). Organized panel session titled Secularism, Religious Nationalism and the Formation of the Nation- State at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, Orlando, USA, Nov. 2001. 6
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Politics, Culture, Identity and the Media (senior/graduate seminar) Politics, Nation, Race and Gender (graduate seminar) Society and Politics in Turkey (senior seminar) Politics of Turkish Modernization (graduate seminar) Contemporary Issues in Turkish Politics (senior seminar) The Public Sphere (graduate seminar) Nationalism and Citizenship in Comparative Perspective (senior seminar) The National, Gendered, Public Subject (graduate seminar) Introduction to Political Science I, II (two-semester freshmen level) Comparative Politics I,II (two-semester junior level) Islam and Secularism in Turkey (in development) The Islamic Turn in Turkey: The AKP Rule (in development) SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Ad-hoc reviewer: Duke University Press, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Theory Culture and Society, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Current Anthropology, Nations and Nationalism, History and Memory, South European Society and Politics, International Journal of Turkish Studies, New Perspectives on Turkey. Middle East Report (MERIP) Editorial Committee member 1998-1999 ASSOCIATIONAL AFFILIATIONS Middle East Studies Association (intermittent) American Political Science Association (intermittent) American Anthropological Association (intermittent) TRAINING July 1991 Training in Teaching, Word Processing and Workstation Computing, Fulbright Orientation Program, State University of New York at Buffalo July 1984 Workshop on Statistics and Micro-computing for the Social Sciences, Ford Foundation/Population Council, Cairo, Egypt LANGUAGES Fluent in Turkish and English; elementary (reading) level Ottoman Turkish and French REFEREES Srirupa Roy, Professor of State and Democracy in Modern India Professor and Chair of State and Democracy, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Goettingen, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany Phone: (49-551) 39-12742/-20236, e-mail: srirupa@gmail.com Metin Heper, Provost and Professor of Political Science Office of the Provost, Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara, 06800, Turkey Phone: (90-312) 290-1510, e-mail: heper@bilkent.edu.tr, Thomas Bender, University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History, Department of History, New York University, 53 Washington Square South, New York NY, 10012 Phone: (212) 998-8625, e-mail: thomas.bender@nyu.edu, Anne Norton, (Dissertation Advisor) anorton@sas.upenn.edu, (215) 898-6324 Professor of Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 7