Curriculum Vitae Name: Yüksel Ta k n Place of Birth: Rize, Turkey Date of Birth: 02 May 1972 Email: ytaskin@marmara.edu.tr EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Sept.2011-Feb. 2012 Visiting Scholar at the Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University, Chicago, (By a fellowship from The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey -TÜB TAK) 04 March 2009- Associate Professor Marmara University, Department of Political Science and International Relations 1 March-31 Aug.2006 Post-Doctoral Studies at ISIM (International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World) Netherlands March 2002-2009 Assistant Professor Marmara University, Department of Political Science and International Relations 2001 Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science and International Relations, Bo aziçi University, Institute of Social Sciences, 1998-1999 Visiting Scholar at the Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University by a fellowship from TÜBA (Turkish Academy of Sciences) 1995 Master of Arts in Political Science and International Relations Bo aziçi University, Institute for Social Sciences 1994 Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations, Bo aziçi University PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2002- Member of Publishing Board of Toplum ve Bilim (Journal of Society and Science)
February 2002 - Full-time member of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University 1999-2001 Teaching Assistant, stanbul Bilgi University, Department of International Relations 1995-98 Research Assistant, Bo aziçi University, Department of Political Science and International Relations CLASSES INSTRUCTED: PSIR 121-122 PSIR 203-204 PSIR 347 IR 302 PSIR 447 Humanities, Political Theory, History of Modern Middle East, Comparative Politics (Bilgi University, Summer School), Research and Reading in Turkish Politics ACADEMIC INTERESTS Political sociology of intellectuals, Conservatism and political Islam in Turkey, Society and Politics in the Middle East AWARDS AND HONORS 2010 The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜB TAK), Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (6 months) 2006 Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA), Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (Six months) 1996-2000 Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) Research Fellowship 2000 American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) PhD grant LANGUAGES Turkish: Native English: Fluent
PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Anti-Komünizmden Küreselleşme Karşıtlığına: Milliyetçi Muhafazakar Entelijensiya, (From Anti-communism to anti-globalization: Nationalist Conservative Intelligentsia) stanbul: leti im Yay nlar, 2007. ARTICLES Türk Sa ve ayd nlar: Bir a k ve nefret ili kisini anlamak, Gürkan Güven Öztan ve nci Kerestecio lu (Der.) Türk Sağı: Mitler, Fetişler, Düşman İmgeleri ( stanbul: leti im Yay nlar, 2012): 407-425. Ortado u: slamc Popülizm ktidara Yürürken, Birikim 273, (Ocak 2012): 80-87. (Book review) Islam and Secularism in Turkey: Kemalism, Religion and the Nation- State, International Journal of Turkish Studies, Vol. 2011, pp.233-235 Ready for new Erdogans in the Middle East? Bitterlemons-International, Middle East Round Table, 27 Oct. 2011 http://www.bitterlemons-international.org/inside.php?id=1448 Europeanization and the extreme right in Bulgaria and Turkey: unveiling similarities between Ataka Party and Red Apple Coalition, Southeastern Europe 35 (2011):95-119 Turkey s Search for Regional Power, Middle East Report Online (MERO), 21 August 2010, http://www.merip.org/mero/mero082110.html Siyasi Partilerin Gençlik Kollar : Politikle me Öyküleri ve deolojik Yönelimler Üzerinden Bir De erlendirme, Gençler Tartışıyor: Siyasete Katılım, Sorunlar ve Çözüm Önerileri, Cemil Boyraz, der. ( stanbul, TÜSES Yay nlar, 2009):97-129 Türkiye de Sa c l k, Modern Türkiye de Siyasi Düşünce, Dönemler ve Zihniyetler, Cilt 9, ed. Ömer Laçiner, leti im Yay nlar, Istanbul, 2009, 451-474 Devrim sonras ran da Siyaset: Aktörler, Stratejiler ve Gelecek, (Politics in the post-revolution Iran: Actors, Strategies and Future) Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi, ( stanbul Üniversitesi), No: 39, Ekim 2008, 21-55 AKP s move to conquer the center-right: its prospects and possible impacts on the democratization process, Turkish Studies 9, No. 1 (March 2008), 53 72, The recent upsurge of extreme right in Turkey and the intra-right struggle of redefining true nationalism and Islam Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 44, No. 1, (January 2008): 129-147. From Left Populism to Conservative Republicanism: Left Kemalists Regression from
Modernist Optimism, New Perspectives on Turkey (NPT) 37 (Fall 2007); 177, 203. Türkiye Sa n anlamak: So uk Sava ve sonras için bir izah denemesi, Kemali Saybaşılı ya Armağan, Ba lam Yay nlar, 2006. Türkiye de s n fsal yeniden yap lanma, AKP ve Muhafazakar Popülizm, Birikim 204 (Nisan 2006): 16-26. Milliyetçi Sivil Toplum Kurulu lar n n Türk Kimli ini Türk Dünyas Ölçe inde Yeniden Tan mlama Çabalar ve D Politika Gündemine Etkileri, Sivil Toplum ve Dış Politika: Yeni Sorunlar, Yeni Aktörler, Semra Mazlum Cerit ve Erhan Do an, der., ( stanbul: Ba lam Yay nlar, 2006):181-209 Emperyal bir seçkin kümesi olarak ABD nin Yeni Muhafazakarlar, Tek Kutuplu Dünyada Yaşamak, ed. Yonca Özer, (Istanbul: SODEV Yay nlar, 2006, 1-25) Akademik Üretimin Demokratikle tirilmesi imkanlar üzerine bir deneme, Toplum ve Bilim 100 (Spring 2004): 44-50 Muhafazakar bir proje olarak Türk- slam Sentezi, Modern Türkiye de Siyasi Dü ünce, Cilt V: Muhafazakarl k. Istanbul: leti im Yay nlar, 2003: 381-401 Yüksel Ta k n and Koray Çal kan. Turkey's Dangerous Game Middle East Report Online, March 27, 2003 Yüksel Ta k n and Koray Çal kan. Litmus Test: Turkey s Neo-Islamists Weigh War and Peace, Middle East Report Online, January 30, 2003 Reaksiyonerlik: Muhafazakarl n Uslanmaz Çocu u, Modern Türkiye de Siyasi Dü ünce. Cilt V: Muhafazakarl k. Istanbul: leti im Yay nlar, 2003: 187-204 Anti-Komünizm ve Türk Milliyetçili i: Endi e ve Pragmatizm, Türkiye de Siyasi Düşünce, Cilt IV: Milliyetçilik. Istanbul: leti im Yay nlar, 2002: 618-635 12 Eylül Atatürkçülü ü ya da bir Kemalist restorasyon te ebbüsü olarak 12 Eylül Modern Türkiye de Siyasi Düşünce, Cilt II : Kemalizm. Istanbul: leti im Yay nlar, 2001: 570-584 Tan l Bora, Yüksel Ta k n. Sa Kemalizm, Modern Türkiye de Siyasi Dü ünce, Cilt II: Kemalizm. Istanbul: leti im Yay nlar, 2001:529-545 Kemalist Kültür politikalar aç s ndan Türk Dil ve Tarih Kurumlar Modern Türkiye de Siyasi Dü ünce, Cilt II : Kemalizm. Istanbul: leti im Yay nlar, 2001: 419-424
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS The Domestic and International Implications of Turkey's Search for Regional Power, Palestine and Uprisings, 8 th Annual Conference organized by SOAS Palestine Society and hosted by London Middle East Institute and the Centre for Palestine Studies (SOAS), Brunei Gallery, 17 March 2012. The Rise of Muslim Intellectuals in Turkey: Challenging the Hegemony of Modernist- Republican Intellectuals Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University, the USA, October 14, 2011. Türkei - Parlamentswahlen 12.6.2011 - Die regierende AKP im Spannungsfeld von Islam, Konservativismus und Demokratie Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation (VIDC), Volkshochschule Ottakring Ludo-Hartmann-Platz 7 1160, 26 May s 2011, Viyana (Türkçe-Almanca simultane çeviri). Recent wave of Revolutions in the Middle East: Remembering the debate on the Post-Islamist Turn Paper presented in the Conference titled Politics of Ordinary People: Understanding Popular Revolutions in the Middle East, organized by Center for Globalization and Democratic Governance (GLODEM), Koç University, Istanbul, 30 March 2011. Popülizm sonras ba lamda entelektüeller, 26 Kas m 2010, Bo aziçi Üniversitesi, Atatürk lkeleri ve nk lap Tarihi Enstitüsü Cuma Seminerleri AKP in power: Prospects and drawbacks of democratization process in Turkey, Conference titled, Turkey: Secularism Challenged, organized by Turkey Institute, the Netherlands and ISIM (International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World), Netherlands, October 9,10, 2008, Amsterdam. Europeanization of the extreme right-wing agenda: a comparative approach to Bulgarian and Turkish experiences, Conference titled, "Political Representation and Participation of Minorities in the Balkan Democratization Process", organized by New Bulgarian University and Marmara University, October 30, 2007 and December 01, 2007 Nationalist Conservative Intellectuals: Between Tradition and Kemalism. Conference titled the Ideological Landscape of Turkey, organized by the Department of Turkish Studies, Leiden University, 21-22 June 2002. 27 May s tan Milliyetçi Cephe Hükümetlerine Milliyetçi-Muhafazakar Entelektüeller ve ktidar (Nationalist Conservative Intellectuals and the State: From 27 May to National Front Governments) National Congress of Social Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 21-23 November, 2001.