Curriculum Vitae Umut Koldaş Assistant Professor Department of International Relations & Near East Institute, Near East University Nicosia- Northern Cyprus umut.koldas@neu.edu.tr ukoldas@yahoo.com Education and Degrees Held PhD. International Relations Department of International Relations, Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 2008. Pre-doctorate Visiting Scholar, Tel Aviv University, The Moshe Dayan Institute for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv, September 2005- July 2006 DAAD Research Fellow, University of Flensburg, Institute of Sociology, April 2005- August 2005. Pre-doctorate Visiting Scholar, Henry Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, January 2005- March 2005 MSc. Media and Communications London School of Economics and Political Science October 2000- November 2001 MSc. International Relations Department of International Relations, Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara September 1997 January 2000 Research Intern The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies Tel Aviv University, Israel Sept. 1998 - June 1999 Research Intern Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Center for Strategic Research (SAM) August 1996 September 1996 BA -International Relations Department of International Relations, Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara September 1992 June 1997
Professional Experience Director, Near East Institute at the Near East University July 2013 Assistant Professor, Near East University, Department of International Relations and the Near East Institute, July 2013- Assistant Professor, Cyprus International University, Department of European Union Relations, March 2009 July 2013 Director, Social and Strategic Policies Research Center, Cyprus International University, 2009-2013 Lecturer, Cyprus International University, Department of International Relations September 2006 March 2009 Research Assistant Department of International Relations, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Middle East Technical University, Ankara January 1997- February 2005 Counting Centre Supervisor Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Mission in Kosovo Counting Centre Pristhina Kosovo September 2002 - November 2002 Voter Services Supervisor Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Mission in Kosovo Field Office Peja/ Pec - Kosovo June 2002 August 2002 Polling Supervisor OSCE Mission in Kosovo November 2001 Suhareke/ Suva Reka - Kosovo Project Assistant International Aid Diplomacy following the Marmara Earthquake - Middle East Technical University Research Fund Project. November 1999 Advance Polling Supervisor, OSCE in Europe Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina Election Supervision Branch, Field Office Travnik August 1998 - September 1998 Project Assistant, Umut (Hope) Foundation - NGO on Peace Studies- Ankara- Turkey August 1996 October 1996
Publications Koldaş Umut and Murat Tüzünkan, (forthcoming) Türk Dışişleri Bakanları Gözüyle Kıbrıs Sorunu, Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık, Ankara, (Turkish) Koldaş Umut, Nur Köprülü (eds.) (forthcoming), Uluslararası Sistemde Kıbrıs, Yakın Doğu Enstitüsü Araştırma Yayınları Serisi, Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2013, (Turkish) Koldaş, Umut, Intermingled Cycles of Hegemony-Building: Europeanization and Minority Policies in Greece During the Simitis Period CEU Political Science Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2013, pp. 202-233. (ISSN1818-7668 (electronic); 1992-3147 (print)) Koldaş, Umut, The Turkish Press and the Representation of the Armenian Minority During the 1965 Events, Bilig, Spring, 2013, Number 65, pp. 203-230 (SSCI- ISSN 1301-0549) Koldaş, Umut, The Nakba in Palestinian Memory in Israel, Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 47, Number 6, 2011, pp. 947-959. (SSCI- ISSN 0026-3206) Koldaş, Umut, Political economy of internal/external migration and skilled labour mobility within the Israeli labour market, International Journal of Business and Globalization, Vol. 8, No.4, 2012, pp. 503-519. (ISSN 1753-3627) Koldaş, Umut and Nur Köprülü, The Resurrection of Palestinian Identity in Divided Societies of the Middle East: The Cases of Jordan and Israel, Perceptions, Spring- Summer 2010, pp. 43-74. (ISSN 1300-8641) Koldaş, Umut and Nur Köprülü, Arap Intifadası mı?: Arap Dünyasındaki Toplumsal Hareketlerin İçsel, Bölgesel ve Uluslararası, Dinamikleri, Akademik Ortadoğu, No. 11, Ekim 2011, pp.23-61.(turkish) Koldaş, Umut, Springs of Hatred, Springs of Hope: 1965 Events, Diaspora Politics and Turkish Armenians, Review of Armenian Studies, Volume 2, Number 5, 2003, pp.75-100 (ISSN: 1303-5304 Koldaş, Umut, Integration of Armenian Minority in Turkey during Democratic Consolidation: Crises and Successes, Review of Armenian Studies, Volume1, Number 3, 2003, pp. 80-120 (ISSN: 1303-5304)
Research Papers and Reports Umut Koldaş (1996), Threats to the Middle East Peace Process, report prepared for the Centre for Strategic Research (SAM), Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Conferences and Seminars Koldaş, Umut, and Huriye Gurdallı, Columns of colonialism: Representation of political power in the official buildings of British rule in colonial Cyprus, International Conference Architecture and Ideology, 28-29 September 2012, Belgrade Koldaş, Umut, and Nur Köprülü, A Trend toward Democratization: Comparative Analysis of Social Movements in Maghrep and Mashreq, International Conference Arab Uprisings: Causes and Consequences 13-14 December 2011 Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta Koldaş, Umut, and Huriye Gurdallı, Oral History of the Buildings of Power in Northern Cyprus through the eyes of their Architects, Oral History in Art, Craft and Design, 2010 Oral History Society Annual Conference, in association with the V&A, 2-3 July 2010, Sackler Centre, V&A London Koldaş, Umut, and Huriye Gurdallı, Architecture of Power and Urban Space in a Divided City: A History of Official Buildings in Nicosia/Lefkosa, Annual Conference of European Urban History Association in Ghent, 1-4 September 2010 Catalyzing or Resisting the system: A Gramscian Analysis of Relationship Between Traditional structures and social movements in the Middle East, International Conference on Change and Stability in the Middle East & North Africa, Jagiellonian University, Cracow/ Poland, 28 29 May 2009 Civilizing the political control: Turkish political and civil societies and the minority politics in the dawn of EU accession, ISA World International Studies Committee, First Global International Studies Conference «Bringing International Studies Together: contrasting approaches and agendas» Istanbul, at Bilgi University, 24-27 August 2005, Ecumenical or not?: Fener Greek Orthodox Church and Debating the Transnational within the National Discursive and Institutional Boundaries, The Oxford Symposium on Trans-nationalism in the Balkans, St Anthony s College, Oxford, 17-18-19 June 2005
Divided on minorities: A Gramscian Analysis of Divisions in Turkish Civil Society on the Road to the EU Accession, Concepts of the third Sector: The European debate Civil Society, Voluntary Organizations, Social and Solidarity-Based Economy, Cnam, Paris, 27-28-29 April 2005 Europeanization and Dominant Media Discourse on Representation of Minorities in Central Europe, Interdisziplinäres Kolloquium Universität Flensburg, Auf dem Campus 1, Hauptgebäude Raum 249, 10 May 2005 On a Bumpy Road to the European Union: Change and Continuity in the Minority Policies of the Turkish Republic in the New Century, ASN 2005 World Convention, Columbia University, 14-16 April 2005 Al-Nakba in the Discursive Corridors of Memory Politics, Sixth Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, Montecatini -Terme, Florence, 16-20 March 2005, Representing the other in the discursive gardens of the state Conference on Nationalism, Society and Culture in Post-Ottoman South East Europe, University of Oxford, St Peter s College, 29-30 May 2004 Turkey and Systematizing Minority Policies on the Road to the European Union Third METU Conference on International Relations, Ankara Turkey, May 24-26, 2004 Last Point of Struggle: Terrorism and the Middle East Peace Process Peace Summit August 2001, AEGEE (Association des Etats-Generaux des Etudiants de L Europe) Convenor of the discussions on Terrorism in the Middle East. Impressions, International Graduate Student Conference on Kosovo: Understanding the Past, Looking Ahead, Central European University, Budapest, 31.3-2.4.2000. Umut Koldaş (Chair) International Relations Studies and Universities in Cyprus (Roundtable Organized by the Association of Euromed Studies (ASEMEDS) and the Department of International Relations, Cyprus International University, TRNC) The Ninth METU Conference on International Relations May 20-22, 2010 Umut Koldaş (Chair) Cyprus, Greece and the European Union The Ninth METU Conference on International Relations May 20-22, 2010 Research Projects:
Project Director, Turkish Republic / Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Scientific Research Project, Comparative Analysis of Foreign Policy Making and Implementation Processes of Euro-Mediterranean Countries towards Cyprus, 2010. Project Director, Turkish Republic / Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Scientific Research Project, The Models of Democracy/ Democratization in the Mediterranean Region and the TRNC: Political Elite, Political Parties, Civil Society and the Democratic Structure, 2010. Researcher and co-director, Scientific Research Project, TRNC Ministry of Education, Oral History of Turkish Cypriot Community through the Eyes of Turkish Cypriot Elected Political Elite, 2009, Project Director:Murat Tüzünkan, Phd. Cyprus International University, Department of International Relations Researcher, Scientific Research Project, TRNC Ministry of Education, Architecture of Power: Representation of Power in the State Buildings in the TRNC, 2009 Project Director: Huriye Gürdallı, Phd. Near East University Department of Architecture Researcher, Scientific Research Project, TRNC Ministry of Education, Harmonization of TRNC Environmental Regulations with the EU Environmental Legislation, 2009 Carolina Smochina, Phd. Cyprus International University, Department of European Union Relations. Memberships: Association of Israel Studies International Oral History Association International Studies Association Personal
Birth Date and Place : 09.08 1974, Elazığ Foreign Languages : English (fluent) Hebrew (basic) German (basic) Teaching Experience Courses given in the last two years: Undergraduate courses : INR 104 Introduction to World Affairs INR209 Introduction to International Relations INR321 International Politics INR344 International Security INR431 Human Rights INR446 Seminar in International Relations INR456 Media and International Conflict Graduate Courses: INR 535 Euro-Mediterranean Politics INR 503 Issues in International Security INR 560 Democratization and Civil Society in the Middle East PhD. Courses INR 603 Theories and Issues in Global Security INR 635 Issues in Euro-Mediterranean Affairs INR 604 Middle East in World Affairs