İLKER AYTÜRK Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Bilkent University FEASS, T Building, Room 363 Bilkent University, Bilkent, 06800 Ankara ayturk@bilkent.edu.tr CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Bilkent University, December 2004-present. PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT Instructor, Department of Political Science, Bilkent University, Ankara, September 2003-December 2004. Teaching Assistant, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA, August 1998-June 2003. Research Assistant, Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, September 1995-June 1998. EDUCATION Ph.D. Brandeis University, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, 2005 M.A. Brandeis University, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, 2001 M.Sc. Middle East Technical University, International Relations, 1997 B.Sc. Middle East Technical University, International Relations, 1995 RESEARCH INTERESTS Nationalism, sociolinguistics, intellectual history, Israeli politics, Turkish politics. ARTICLES Pride and Prejudice: What Went Wrong in Turkish Israeli Relations? Turkish Studies (forthcoming, December 2011). (SSCI) 1
İsrail de Hristiyan Cemaatler: Devlet ve Dinî Azınlık İlişkilerinin Kurumsallaşmasına Bir Bakış. Orta Doğu Etütleri 2/2 (2011), 97-116. The Racist Critics of Atatürk and Kemalism from the 1930s to the 1960s. Journal of Contemporary History 46 (2011), 308-335. (SSCI) Revisiting the Language Factor in Zionism: The Hebrew Language Council from 1904 to 1914. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 73 (2010), 45-64. (AHCI) Editorial Introduction: Romanisation in Comparative Perspective. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Third Series, 20 (2010), 1-9. (AHCI) Script Charisma in Hebrew and Turkish: A Comparative Framework for Explaining Success and Failure of Romanization. Journal of World History 21 (2010), 97-130. (AHCI) H.F. Kvergić and the Sun-Language Theory. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 159 (2009), 22-44. (AHCI) Between Crises and Cooperation: The Future of Turkish-Israeli Relations. Insight Turkey 11 (April 2009), 57-74. The First Episode of Language Reform in Republican Turkey: The Language Council from 1926 to 1931. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Third Series, 18 (2008), 275-293. (AHCI) Politics and Language Reform in Turkey: The Academy Debate. Wiener Zeitchrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 98 (2008), 13-30. Yahudi Kimdir? Tartışmasının Işığında İsrail de Din ve Etnik Kimlik. Doğu Batı 44 (2008), 153-169. Attempts at Romanizing the Hebrew Script and Their Failure: Nationalism, Religion and Alphabet Reform in the Yishuv. Middle Eastern Studies 43 (2007), 625-645. (SSCI) Eyüp: Soğuğa Açılan Kapı. Doğu Batı 40 (2007), 23-32. Türk Dil Milliyetçiliğinde Batı Meselesi. Doğu Batı 38 (2006), 93-108. Turkish Linguists against the West: The Origins of Linguistic Nationalism in Atatürk s Turkey. Middle Eastern Studies 40 (2004), 1-25. (SSCI) 2
BOOK REVIEWS Ergun Çağatay and Doğan Kuban, eds., The Turkic Speaking Peoples: 2,000 Years of Art and Culture from Inner Asia to the Balkans. Munich, Berlin, London, New York and The Hague: Prestel and The Prince Claus Fund Library, 2006. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 19 (2009), 389-390. Simeon D. Baumel, Sacred Speakers: Language and Culture among the Haredim in Israel. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006. Israel Studies Forum 22 (2007), 126-129. ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES Anti-Judaism, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in the Ottoman Empire, Anti- Judaism, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Turkey, Aliyah to Mandatory Palestine and Israel Turkey, Bedel-i Askeri, Celal Nuri, The Struma Affair, Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, Norman A. Stillman, ed. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2010). History of the Romanization of the Hebrew Script, Language and Nationalism, Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, Geoffrey Khan, ed. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, forthcoming 2011). Language Planning and Reform: Contribution of Kemal Atatürk, Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, Carol A. Chapelle, ed. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming 2011). LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS Atsız, Atatürk ve Kemalizm: Unutturulmuş Bir Polemiğin Düşündürdükleri. Tarih Vakfı Ankara Tartışmaları, organized by Oktay Özel, November 2010, Ankara, Turkey. Turkey and Israel: What went Wrong? USAK Panel on Turkish-Israeli Relations, November 2010, Ankara, Turkey. Atsız and Islam, or Why Did Secular Turkish Nationalism Fail? Turks and Islam (Conference), organized by Kemal Sılay, September 2010, Bloomington, IN, USA. Sâmiha Ayverdi: Paradoxes of a Turkish-Muslim Woman. Middle East Studies Association Conference, November 2009, Boston, MA, USA. Script Charisma in Hebrew and Turkish. Seminar Series in Social Sciences and Humanities, Koç University, November 2009, İstanbul, Turkey. Erken Cumhuriyet Döneminde Kemalist Milliyetçilik. Ankara Türk Ocağı, April 2009, Ankara, Turkey. The Ottomanist Turn in Turkish Nationalism: Dündar Taşer and Erol Güngör. 3
Middle East Studies Association Conference, November 2008, Washington, DC, USA. The Kurdish Question and Turkish Nationalism. Halki Seminars, June 2008, Halki, Greece. Atsız versus Atatürk: The Repressed Story of a Feud within Turkish Nationalism. Panel organizer and presenter, Middle East Studies Association Conference, November 2007, Montréal, Canada. Linguistic Nationalism in the Work of Va ad ha-lashon. imagination: The Cultural Praxis of Zionism (Conference), organized by Arieh Saposnik and Shai Ginsburg, February 2006, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA. Alphabet Reform in Turkey. Alphabetics (Conference), organized by Ericka Boekeler and Daniel Kokin, April 2003, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. The Sun-Language Theory: Nationalism and Language Reform in Early Republican Turkey. Middle East Studies Association Conference, November 2002, Washington, DC, USA. The Sun-Language Theory in Turkey. Israeli Sociolinguistics Conference, May 2002, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel. Nationalism and Language Reform in Turkey. Fourth European Social Science History Conference, February 2002, The Hague, Netherlands. Nationalism and Linguistics in Atatürk s Turkey. Manifestations of National Identity in Europe (Conference), organized by Klaas van der Sanden, May 2001, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Young Scientist Award, Turkish Academy of Sciences, 2011-2013. Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, 2011-2012. Bilkent University Teaching Award Finalist, 2008 (6 finalists voted by Bilkent students). The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), Conference Subsidy Grant toward organizing Romanization in Comparative Perspective: Explaining Success and Failure (International Workshop) at Bilkent University, 5-7 September 2007. Bilkent University Research Development Grant, 2004. Participant, Summer Institute for Israel Studies, Brandeis University, 2004. 4
Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award, Brandeis University, 2002. Visiting Graduate Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, October 2001-May 2002. Research Grants, Dorot Foundation, Karin MacQuillan Fund, Center for European and German Studies, Brandeis University, 2002. Scholarship and Assistantship, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University, 1998-2003. Exchange Graduate Student, Moshe Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University, September 1996-May 1997. PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Assistant Chair, Department of Political Science, Bilkent University, September 2009- April 2011. Member, Facult y Council, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Bilkent University, September 2009-April 2011. Faculty Advisor, Numismatics Club, Bilkent University, November 2010-present. Member, Editorial Board, Orta Doğu Etütleri, September 2009-present. Member, Editorial Board, Turkish Studies (SSCI), November 2010-present. COURSES TAUGHT AT BİLKENT POLS 101 Introduction to Political Science I POLS 104 Introduction to Political Science II POLS 305 Turkish Political Development POLS 306 Contemporary Turkish Politics POLS 331 State and Society in Israel POLS 344 Turkish Nationalism: Ideology and Politics POLS 636 Nationalism and Politics LANGUAGE ABILITY Turkish (native), English (proficient), Hebrew and German (reading proficiency). 5