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Resim: 2000 Yılı Uluslararası Hacı Bektaş Veli Törenlerinde bir Alevi Dedesiyle

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

 Aykan Erdemir

aerdemir@metu.edu.tr

 

Department of Sociology

Office # 201A

Middle East Technical University

Ankara 06531 TURKEY

Tel: +90(312)2105996

Fax: +90(312)2101284

 

EDUCATION

 

2002-2004         Doctoral Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University .

1997-2004         Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies and Social Anthropology, Harvard University . Passed general examinations with Distinction. Passed Thesis Defense on 29 April 2004 . Dissertation Title: Incorporating Alevis: The Transformation of Governance and Faith-Based Collective Action in Turkey .

1996-1998         MA. Middle Eastern Studies. Harvard University .

1992-1996         BA. International Relations. Bilkent University, Ankara .  Recevied full scholarship.  Graduated with High Honors.

1985-1992         Robert College, Istanbul .

 

FELLOWSHIPS RECEIVED

 

2002-2004    Hauser Fellowship for Nonprofit Organizations at Kennedy School of Government

2003           Department of Anthropology Conference Grant

2003           The Center for Middle Eastern Studies Summer Research Grant

2002           Harvard University , Graduate Society Award for Summer Study

2002           The Center for Middle Eastern Studies Conference Grant

2001           The Center for Middle Eastern Studies Summer Research Grant

2000-2001   Harvard University Grant towards tuition

2000           Teschemacher Fellowship for Field Study

2000           The Center for Middle Eastern Studies Summer Research Grant

1999-2000   Harvard University Grant towards tuition

1999           Harvard University , Graduate Student Council Summer Research Grant

1999           The Center For Middle Eastern Studies Summer Research Grant

1999           Mellon Fellowship for Predissertation Field Research

1998-1999   Harvard University Grant towards tuition

1998           The Center For Middle Eastern Studies Summer Research Grant

1998           Teschemacher Fellowship for Predissertation Field Research

1992-1996   Bilkent University Merit Fellowship

PUBLICATIONS

2005                 “Pinhan Tarih: Alevilik, Antropoloji ve Arkeoloji” Kırkbudak, vol.1, no.1. pp.89-94. [co-authored with Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir]

2005                 “ABD’ye başkaldır!” Birgün, 12 January.

2005                 Translation of Nur Yalman’s “Türkiye’nin Avrupa’ya öğretebileceği çok şey var” Birgün, 2 January.

2004                 “Review of Philip Lewis's Islamic Britain : Religion, Politics and Identity among British Muslims”  International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol.36, no.1., pp.152-154.

2002                 “Yılmaz Güney” in Encyclopedia of Modern Asia : Volume 2, Levinson, David and Karen Christensen, eds. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, p.463.

2001                 “Alevi Nettaşlar: İnternet’te Folklor ve Antropoloji’nin Sınırlarını Zorlamak”  Halkbilimi, vol.14, pp. 58-61.

2001                 “Nüfus Cüzdanlarındaki Din Bölümü ve Türk Muhafazakarlarının Bilinçaltı”  Kızıldeli, vol.4, pp.58-59.

2001                 “Önsöz” in Bir Türk Diplomatın Gözüyle Avrupa Birliği.  Funda Tezok.  Istanbul : Institut für Türkisch -Europäische Studien, pp.3-4.

1999                 “Review of Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey”  The Middle East and South Asia Folklore Bulletin, vol.16, no.3, pp.7-8.

 PROFESSIONAL TALKS  

  • “Toplum ve Kimlik” presented at the Alevilik, Toplum, Kimlik Conference, Hacı Bektaş Veli Anadolu Culture Foundation, Ankara ( 21 November 2004 ).
  • “Politics of Alevi Sexuality in Turkish Sunni Cosmology” presented at the Sexuality Studies in the Middle East Workshop, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University (7 May 2004).
  • “The Transformation of the Law of Foundations in Turkey” presented at the Works in Progress Workshop at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (26 April 2004).
  • Commentator at Markus Dressler’s talk “Redefining Religious Authority in Contemporary Turkish Alevism: The Modern Dede”  Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University ( 17 March 2004 ).
  • “Islamic Nonprofits in Turkey : Reconfiguration of Alevi Belief and Practice” presented at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) at Chicago (19-23 November 2003).
  • “Alevi Örgütlenmesi ve Hukuksal Çerçeve” presented at Alevi Gençliğinin Sorunları Conference, Garip Dede Association, Istanbul ( 8 June 2003 ).
  • “Transformation of Alevi Collective Action in Turkey: a Contextual and Processual Analysis” presented at the Works in Progress Workshop at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (31 March 2003).
  • “A Critical Reassessment of Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Alevis” presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) at Washington , D.C. (23-26 November 2002).
  • “Alternative Apocalyptic Narratives of the Alevi Religious Community in Turkey ” presented at the Seventh Annual Conference of the Center for Millennial Studies, at Boston University (2-5 November 2002).
  • “Alternative Modernities? ‘Modern’ Alevis and Alevi Alternatives” presented at the “Local Modernities: Islamic Cultural Practices as Sites of Agency, Mediation, and Resistance” Graduate Symposium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge ( 5 October 2002 ).
  • “The ‘Eastern’ Alevis and the ‘Western’ Elite in Istanbul ” presented at the Seventh Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, Copenhagen , Denmark (14-17 August 2002).
  • “The Predicament of Alevi Subjects at the Nexus of Supranational and National Sovereignties” presented at the Fourth Annual Globalization Workshop Conference, University of Chicago (3-4 May 2002).
  • “History as the Battlefield of Activism: Politics of Alevi Historiography in Turkey since 1980" presented at History of Activism, History as Activism Conference, Columbia University (5-6 April 2002).
  • “Turkish Citizens of African Descent: Suggestions for Further Research” presented at the 10th Annual Boston University Graduate Research Conference in African Studies, African Studies Center, Boston University,  (22-23 March 2002).
  • “The Other's Sexuality as an Idée Fixe: Demarcating Religious Communities in Contemporary Turkish Culture” presented at Fixed Ideas Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Harvard University , Barker Center (01-02 March 2002).
  • “Alevi Nettaşlar ve İnternet’te Alevilik” presented at Contemporary Alevism Conference, Garip Dede Association, Istanbul ( 27 May 2001 ).
  • “Death of a Community: Alevi Predicament in 1990s Istanbul ” presented at Boas/Benedict Graduate Student Conference, Columbia University (23-24 March 2000).

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

2005           Lecturer for SOC 104: Introduction to Sociology, SOC 206: The Anthropology of Kinship Organization, SOC 534: Anthropology of Europe at the Middle East Technical University .

2004           Lecturer for SOC321: Political Anthropology and SOC 527: Society and Culture in Iran at the Middle East Technical University .

2002-2003   Senior Thesis Advisor at the Department of Social Anthropology, Harvard University .  Advised Ayanna Lonian’s thesis “Black Computers: An Ethnography of Race and Gender in Cyberspace”

2002           Teaching Fellow for the course FC74: Cultures of Southern Europe at Harvard University .

2001-2002   Instructor for Anth98r: Individual Tutorial in Social Anthropology at Harvard University . Advised Mindy Minyi Chen’s paper “Jawaiian: An Examination of Reggae Subculture and its Emergence in Hawai’i ”.

2001-2002   Teaching Fellow for the course FC17: Thought and Change in the Contemporary Middle East at Harvard University .

2001-2002   Instructor of the course A98z: Junior Tutorial in Social Anthropology ( Middle East : Who gets to be in the Nation?) at Harvard University .

2001           Recevied Graduate Writing Fellows Program Certificate from Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University

2001           Conducted (with Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir) Youth Writing Workshop at Garip Dede Association, Istanbul (February-June 2001).

2000           Teaching Fellow for the course FC 70: Understanding Islam and Contemporary Muslim Societies at Harvard University .

1999-2000   Teaching Fellow for the course Sci B-29: Human Behavioral Biology at Harvard University .

1999           Teaching Fellow for the course A110: Introduction to Social Anthropology at Harvard University .

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS

 

2005                             “Between Integration and Resettlement: The Meskhetian Turks” in cooperation with the European Center for Minority Issues (ECMI), Flensburg , Germany .

2004-2005         “Immigrant Work Strategies and Networks” in cooperation with the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford .

1998-2001         18-month ethnographic study of Alevi foundations and associations in Istanbul .

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

2005                 Member of the Editorial Board for Kirkbudak.

2001-2004         Indexing Assistant for Anthropological Literature at Harvard University , Tozzer Library.

2001-2002         Student Coordinator of the Anthropology Middle East Workshop at the Department of Social Anthropology, Harvard University .

2002                 Paper refereeing for Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, volume 23.

2001                 Co-organizer of the “Contemporary Alevism Conference” at Garip Dede Association Cultural Center, Istanbul ( 27 May 2001 ).

2000                 Co-directed (with Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir) Veritas: Let Hundered Flowers Bloom, 13 minute documentary on Living Wage Campaign at Harvard University, screened at First Annual Dudley Digital Film Festival (May 13-14, 2000).

1999-2002         Cofounder and student coordinator of the Rural and Urban Folklore of Turkey (RUFT) workshop at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University .

1998-2000         Member of the staff at Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review.  Worked as the Book Review Editor for Volume 4, Number 1-2.

1997-present     Co-editor of the Alevi-Bektaşi Research Website. [http://www.alevibektasi.org].

1997                 Worked as a researcher-writer for the 1998 editions of Let’s Go: Greece & Turkey and Let’s Go: Europe.  Researched Marmara and Black Sea regions.

 

LANGUAGE SKILLS

 

Turkish (native)

English (fluent)

German (intermediate)

Persian (intermediate reading)

Ottoman (intermediate reading)

Arabic (basic reading)