B.A., Middle East Technical University, 1964 (Department of Social Sciences)
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2011-
Emeritus Professor, Sabancı University
2003-11
Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Sabanci University
1998-03
Professor, Department of Sociology, Boğaziçi University
1997
Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1990
Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning and Von Grünebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA
1985-89
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Boğaziçi University
1977-84
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Boğaziçi University
1972-76
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Middle East Technical University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cultural Politics
Media & the Public Sphere
City Cultures and Spaces
SELECTED AWARDS & RESEARCH GRANTS
2006-2008
EUROSHERE: Diversity and the European Public Sphere 6TH Framework Program, European Commission
[Team-Leader for Turkish Component]
2005-2006
Secular Journeys: Comparative Secularisms in the Middle East and South East Asia SEPHIS, South-South Workshops Grant
[Team member]
1997-2000
Commercial Broadcasting and Narratives of Turkish Politics MERC, Middle East Research Competition, Ford Foundation.
[Individual grant]
1995-1998
Gender, Domestic Space and a Television Serial: “Bizimkiler” ARIT, American Research Institute in Turkey and Boğaziçi University Research Fund
[co-researcher: Nükhet Sirman]
1990-1994
Socioeconomic Transformation, State and Political Regimes in Egypt and Turkey, Middle East Research Competition (MERC), Ford Foundation
[co-directors: Saad-Eddin Ibrahim and Çağlar Keyder]
1992-1993
Images of Istanbul in Turkish Cartoons, funded by Boğaziçi University Research Institute, Istanbul.
[individual research grant]
1990-1992
Turkey and the West: Changing Political and Cultural Identities Institut für Wissenschaft und Politik/FRG.
[co-directors: Heinz Kramer and Metin Heper]
1991
Istanbul as a World City Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Istanbul.
[co-researcher: Çağlar Keyder]
1984-1985
Governing Greater Istanbul: Dilemmas of Decentralization Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Bonn.
[research team member]
1976-1979
Metropolitan Government in Turkey OECD; British Council; Center for Regional Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury; Istanbul Municipality
[coordinator and researcher]
JOURNAL EDITORSHIP
Managing co-editor, New Perspectives on Turkey (1998-2004)
ACADEMIC SERVICES
INTERNATIONAL
Standing Committee Member (2006-2008)
International Collaboration in Social Science Research
SSRC (Social Science Research Council)
Grant Committee Member (1990-92; 2000-2002)
Population Council, MEAwards (Middle East Research Awards Program), Cairo, Egypt.
Grant Committee Member (1993-95)
Ford Foundation, Middle East Research Awards (MERC), Cairo, Egypt.
Program Committee Member (1988-1990; 1990-94)
International Sociological Association (ISA)
Grand Jury Member (1993-94)
Second Worldwide Competition for Young Sociologists,
International Sociological Association (ISA)
NATIONAL
Member,
Academy of Science, Turkey (2014-)
Program Coordinator,
Cultural Studies Program, Sabancı University (2003-2005)
Administrative Board Member,
Social Policy Forum, Boğaziçi University, (2004-2007)
Academic Board Member,
Boğaziçi University Foundation (2000-2003)
Director of Graduate Studies
Sociology Department, Boğaziçi University (1994-1997; 2000-2003)
Chairperson
Sociology Department, Boğazici University (1986-1994)
CONFERENCES