CURRICULUM VITAE BURAK GÜREL Department of Sociology Koç University Rumelifeneri Yolu, Sarıyer İstanbul, 34450 Turkey Phone: +90 212 338 1862 Email: bgurel@ku.edu.tr Date and Place of Birth: 3 January 1980, İzmir Education 2015. Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, Department of Sociology. Dissertation title: The Role of Collective Mobilization in the Divergence of the Rural Economies of China and India (1950-1990). 2009. MA. Johns Hopkins University, Department of Sociology. 2006-2007. The Fox International Fellowship Program, MacMillan Center, Yale University. 2004. MA. Boğaziçi University, Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History. Thesis Title: Political Mobilization in Turkey in the 1970s: The Case of the Kahramanmaraş Incidents. 2002. BA. Dokuz Eylül University, Department of International Relations. Professional Experience Since February 2015. Assistant Professor, Koç University, Department of Sociology. Courses taught: State and Society, Historical Sociology, Political Sociology. Fall 2013. Instructor, Johns Hopkins University, East Asian Studies Program. Course title: Rural Development in Asia. 2007-2015. Teaching Assistant, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Sociology. Spring 2006. Instructor, Boğaziçi University, Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History. Course title: History of the Turkish Republic II.
2004-2005. Research Assistant, Boğaziçi University, Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History. Peer-Reviewed Articles 2014. Changing Relations of Production in Chinese Agriculture from Decollectivization to Capitalism. McGill Sociological Review, Vol. 4, pp. 67-92. 2013. (With Chengrong Duan and Weigang Gong). Regional Variation of Lineage Culture and Fertility Transition in Rural China. Rural China, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 258-310. 2011. Agrarian Change and Labour Supply in Turkey. Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 195-219. 2004. 1970 ler Türkiye sinde İslamcı ve Faşist Siyaset: Vaatler ve Sonuçlar (Islamist and Fascist Politics in Turkey in the 1970s: Promises and Results). Praksis, No. 12, pp. 85-102. 2004. Communist Police! The State in the 1970s Turkey. The Journal of Historical Studies, Vol. 2, pp. 1-18. Book Chapters 2016. İsmail Bilen: Gecikmiş Yükselişten Hızlandırılmış Çöküşe TKP (İsmail Bilen: The Communist Party of Turkey from Belated Rise to Precipitated Collapse). In Emirali Türkmen and Ümit Özger (eds.), Türkiye Solundan Portreler (Portraits from the Turkish Left) (pp. 235-252), Ankara: Dipnot Yayınları. 2016. Şefik Hüsnü (Değmer): Ekim Devrimi nden Stalinizme TKP nin Dönüşümü (Şefik Hüsnü (Değmer): The Transformation of the Communist Party of Turkey from the October Revolution to Stalinism). In Emirali Türkmen and Ümit Özger (eds.), Türkiye Solundan Portreler (Portraits from the Turkish Left) (pp. 171-184), Ankara: Dipnot Yayınları. 2015. Islamism: A Comparative-Historical Overview. In Neşecan Balkan, Erol Balkan, and Ahmet Öncü (eds.), The Neoliberal Landscape and the Rise of Islamist Capital in Turkey (pp.
13-40), New York: Berghahn Books (Published online in Persian in 2016: http://problematicaa.com/islamismgurel/). 2014. Türkiye de Kırda Sınıf Mücadelelerinin Tarihsel Gelişimi (Historical Development of Class Struggles in Rural Turkey). In Sungur Savran, E. Ahmet Tonak, and Kurtar Tanyılmaz (eds.), Marksizm ve Sınıflar: Dünyada ve Türkiye de Sınıflar ve Mücadeleleri (Marxism and Classes: Classes and Their Struggles in Turkey and the World) (pp. 303-385), İstanbul: Yordam Kitap. 2014. İslamcılık: Uluslararası Bir Ufuk Taraması (Islamism: An International Overview). In Neşecan Balkan, Erol Balkan, and Ahmet Öncü (eds.), Neoliberalizm, İslamcı Sermayenin Yükselişi ve AKP (Neoliberalism, the Rise of Islamist Capital, and the AKP) (pp. 19-52), İstanbul: Yordam Kitap. 2012. İslamcılık (Islamism). In Gökhan Atılgan and E. Attila Aytekin (eds.), Siyaset Bilimi: Kavramlar, İdeolojiler ve Disiplinler Arası İlişkiler (Political Science: Concepts, Ideologies, and Interdisciplinary Relations) (pp. 407-428), İstanbul: Yordam Kitap. 2007. (With Can Nacar). Şefik Hüsnü Değmer. In Murat Gültekingil (eds.), Modern Türkiye de Siyasi Düşünce, Cilt 8: Sol (Political Thought in Modern Turkey, Volume 8: The Left) (pp. 118-133), İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları. 2007. (With Fulya Özkan). İsmail Bilen (Laz İsmail). In Murat Gültekingil (eds.), Modern Türkiye de Siyasi Düşünce, Cilt 8: Sol (Political Thought in Modern Turkey, Volume 8: The Left) (pp. 294-309), İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları. Book Reviews 2015. Review of Sungur Savran, Üçüncü Büyük Depresyon: Kapitalizmin Alacakaranlığı (The Third Great Depression: The Twilight of Capitalism), İstanbul: Yordam Kitap, 2013. Praksis, No. 38, pp. 229-232.
2014. Review of Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery, Peasants under Siege: The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962. The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 291-294. Conference and Workshop Papers 2016. The Syrian Civil War and Turkey s Transformation into the World s Biggest Refugee Camp. In Crises and Victims: A Workshop on Refugees, Migrants and Anti-Refugee Discourses in a New Way, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Warsaw, Karl Polanyi Center for Global Social Studies, and Eszmélet (Quarterly Journal for Social Critique), Budapest, February 27. 2014. The Role of Labor Mobilization in the Divergence of the Rural Economies of China and India (1950-1980). In Social Science Seminars, Koç University, İstanbul, February 20. 2014. The Role of Labor Mobilization in the Divergence of the Rural Economies of China and India (1947-1992). In East Asian Studies Spring 2014 Student Symposium: Transforming East Asia, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, April 11. 2013. Landownership and Capitalist Agriculture in China. In Agrarian Development in China: Legacies and Prospects, The Arrighi Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, November 1. 2013. The Role of Labor Mobilization in the Divergence of the Rural Economies of China and India (1947-1992). In Center for Development Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala, March 22. 2012. Changing Relations of Production in Chinese Agriculture from Decollectivization to Agrarian Capitalism. In 21 st Annual Columbia Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, Columbia University, New York, February 10-11. 2007. Peasant Struggles over Land in Turkey (1960-1980). In Historical Social Science- Graduate Student Conference, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, April 28-29.
2006. Land Occupation as a Form of Peasant Resistance in Turkey (1968-1980). In The Political Economy of the Middle East in the Age of Empire: Historical, Theoretical, and Political Reflections, York University, Toronto, March 23-24. Grants and Fellowships 2016. Koç-Harvard Visiting Scholar Program, Harvard University. 2013. Stephen and Lynn Browne Graduate Student Teaching Fellowship, East Asian Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University. 2012. Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University (Summer research grant). 2012. East Asian Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University (Summer research grant). 2012. Program in Global Social Change, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University (Summer research grant). 2009-2010. Chinese Government Scholarship, Wuhan University, China (Awarded scholarship as a full-time language student). 2009. East Asian Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University (Summer research grant). 2009. Institute for Global Studies, Johns Hopkins University (Summer research grant). 2006-2007. The Fox International Fellowship Program, MacMillan Center, Yale University. Academic Peer Review Antipode Comparative Studies in Society and History Journal of Agrarian Change New Perspectives on Turkey Praksis Toplum ve Bilim Languages Turkish (Native)
English (Fluent) Mandarin Chinese (Fluent)