CURRICULUM VITAE Ayhan T. AKTAR Istanbul Bilgi University, Institute of Social Sciences, Dolapdere Campus, Room no. 510 Beyoglu, Istanbul 34440 TURKEY ayhan.aktar@bilgi.edu.tr 2010 to present Professor, Istanbul Bilgi University, Institute of Social Sciences. 2007 2009 Professor, Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of International Relations (Adjunct). 2006 2007 Visiting Professor, University of Cyprus / Nicosia, Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies 2003 2006 Professor, Marmara University, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Department of Political Science and International Relations (Early retirement since August 2006) 1997-June 2003 Associate Professor, Marmara University. 1989-1997 Assistant Professor, Marmara University. 1980-1989 Research Fellow and Instructor, Marmara University, Department of Public Administration. Education: Ph.D. 1989 M.A. 1979 B.A. 1977 Istanbul University, Department of Sociology. Thesis title: Small Industry in the Process of Social Change: An Analysis of Human Relations in the Bursa Textile Industry. University of Kent at Canterbury, Department of Sociology. Bosphorus University, Department of Sociology. 1
Awards, Fellowships, Visiting Professorships and Conference Organization: 2006-2007 Visiting Professor, University of Cyprus / Nicosia, Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies 2006 Active member of the organizing committee of the conference on Nationalism in the Troubled Triangle: Cyprus, Greece and Turkey that was held in Nicosia, Cyprus on 10-11 November 2006. 2005 Active member of the organizing committee of first academic conference ever held on the tragic fate of Ottoman Armenians in Turkey: Ottoman Armenians during the Demise of the Empire: Issues of Democracy and Scientific Responsibility, This conference was finally held in Istanbul Bilgi University on 25 September, 2005 after two cancellations due to political pressures coming from different directions. 2001 Winner, Research Award granted by The Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East Studies and Diplomacy on the project titled as Hybrid Globalization of the Middle East:A longitudinal analysis of business, politics, and the state in Bursa silk cloth production, 1981-2001" (With Fatma Müge Göçek, University of Michigan) 2000-2001 Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, Sociology Department. 1996 British Council Fellow, Visiting Scholar to the United Kingdom. 1992-1993 Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies. 1989-1990 Winner, Turkish National Yunus Nadi Award for the Best Original Research in the Social Sciences in Turkey during the Academic Year. Publications: Books 2012 Yüzbaşı Sarkis Torosyan, Çanakkale den Filistin Cephesine [Turkish edition of Captain Sarkis Torossian s memoir, From Dardanelles to Palestine]. Istanbul: İletişim Publications. 2011 İlginç Zamanlar: Taraf yazılarından Seçmeler, 2008-2011. [Interesting Times: Selections from Taraf articles, 2008-2011] Istanbul: Kitap Publications. 2011 Yorgo Hacıdimitriadis in Aşkale Erzurum Günlüğü (1943). [The Diary of Yorgos Hacidimitriadis in Askale/Erzurum Labour Camp, 1943] Istanbul: İletişim Publications. 2010 Nationalism in Troubled Triangle: Cyprus, Greece and Turkey, Ayhan Aktar, Niyazi Kızılyürek and Umut Özkırımlı (Eds.) London: Palgrave 2
Macmillan, 2010. 2006 Türk Milliyetçiliği, Gayrimüslimler ve Ekonomik Dönüşüm. [Turkish Nationalism, Non - Muslims and Economic Transformations], Istanbul: Iletişim Publications. 2000 Varlık Vergisi ve Türkleştirme Politikaları. [Capital Levy and Turkification Policies], Istanbul: Iletişim Publications. 1990 Kapitalizm, Azgelişmişlik ve Türkiye de Küçük Sanayi [Capitalism, Underdevelopment and Small Industry in Turkey]. Istanbul: Afa Publications. Articles 2013 Diyarbekir, 1915 in Diyarbakır Tebliğleri: Diyarbakır ve Çevresi Toplumsal ve Ekonomik Tarihi Konferansı pp. 289-326. Hrant Dink Vakfı Yayınları, İstanbul. (With Abdülhamit Kırmızı) 2013 Türkiye'de Gayrimüslimler: Kağıt Üzerinde Vatandaşlar! in Türkiye nin Yeniden İnşası: Modernleşme, Demokratikleşme, Kimlik pp. 175 188 arasında. Editor: Fuat Keyman. İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları 2013 Tax me to the End of my Life: Anatomy of an Anti-minority Tax Legislation (1942-43), in State-Nationalisms in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Turkey: Orthodox and Muslims, 1830-1945 pp. 188 220 arası. Eds. Benjamin C. Fortna, Stefanos Katsikas, Dimitris Kamouzis ve Paraskevas Konortas. Routledge. 2011 Sunuş, Erken Cumhuriyet Döneminde Ekonominin Türkleştirilmesi içinde. Murat Koraltürk. İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2011: 11-17. 2010 Osmanlı Meclisi Ermeni Meselesini Tartışıyor: Kasım-Aralık 1918, İmparatorluğun Çöküş Döneminde Osmanlı Ermenileri: Bilimsel Sorumluluk ve Demokrasi Sorunları. İstanbul: Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2010: 353-382 2010 O Foros Periousias os Anti-Mionotiki Politiki, 1942-43 [Giriş: Azınlık Karşıtı bir Politika olarak Varlık Vergisi, 1942-43], Yorgos Hacıdimitriadis, İmerologio Exorias: Erzeroum 1943 [Yorgo Hacıdimitriadis in Sürgün Günlükleri: Erzurum 1943] içinde, Atina: Hestia yayınları, Eylül 2010: 99-152. 2010 Mübeccel Kıray ın İstanbul Yılları, Türk Sosyolojisinde Üç Bilim İnsanı [Three Scholars in Turkish Sociology] Yay. Haz. Çağlayan Kovanlıkaya ve Erkan Çav. İstanbul, Bağlam Yayınları, pp. 73-88 2010 Conversion of a Country into a Fatherland : The Case of Turkification Examined, 1923-1934, in Nationalism in Troubled Triangle: Cyprus, Greece and Turkey, Ayhan Aktar, Niyazi Kızılyürek and Umut Özkırımlı (Eds.) London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. 21-35. 3
2009 with Abdulhamit Kırımızı, Bon pour l Orient : Fuat Dündar ın kitabını deşifre ederken, [Bon pour l Orient: Deciphering Fuat Dündar s Book] Tarih ve Toplum - Yeni Yaklaşımlar. Bahar 2009, pp. 157-186. 2009 Turkification Policies in the Early Republican Era in Turkish Literature and Cultural Memory. Ed. by Catharina Duft. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009: 29 62 2008 Türkiye de Gayrimüslimler: Kağıt üzerinde Vatandaşlar! [Non-Muslims in Turkey: Citizens on Paper!] Aydınlanma, Türkiye ve Vatandaşlık. Yay. haz. Fuat Keyman. Istanbul: Osmanlı Bankası Arşiv ve Araştırma Merkezi yayını. 2007 Debating the Armenian Massacres in the Last Ottoman Parliament, November December 1918, History Workshop Journal, No. 64, Autumn 2007: 240-270 2006 Yunan Tarihyazımında Mübadele ve Göç [Treatment of Population Exchange in Greek Historiography]. Kebikeç: İnsan Bilimleri için Kaynak Araştırmaları Dergisi. Vol. 22, 2006: 85-98. (With Damla Demirözü) 2006 The First Year of the Population Exchange: September 1922 September 1923, The Greek-Turkish population exchange - aspects of a national conflict. Konstantinos Tsitselikis (Ed.). Kritiki Publications, Athens. [In Greek] 2005 Tek Parti Döneminde Irkçilik Meselesi [Question of Racism during the Single Party Period in Turkey], Virgül, Eylül 2005. 2005 Ermeni meselesi, Mavi Kitap ve Yeni Ittihatçilik, [The Armenian Question, Blue Book and the New forms of Unionism] Birikim. Mayis 2005: 106-116 2005 Türk - Yunan Nüfus Mübadelesi nin İlk Yılı: Eylül 1922 - Eylül 1923, [First Year of the Population Exchange: September 1922 September 1923] Yeniden Kurulan Yaşamlar: 1923 Türk - Yunan Zorunlu Nüfus Mübadelesi, Müfide Pekin (Ed.). İstanbul: Bilgi Üniversitesi yayınları. 41-74 2004 Varlık Vergisi nin Hikayesi, [A Short Story of Capital Levy] Toplumsal Tarih 121 :82-87. 2003 Homogenizing the Nation,Turkifying the Economy: Turkish Experience of Populations Exchange Reconsidered. In Crossing the Aegean: An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Exchange between Greece and Turkey. Edited by Renée Hirschon. Berghahn Books (New York, Oxford). 79-95 2002 Son Osmanlı Meclisi ve Ermeni meselesi: Kasım Aralık 1918, [Last Ottoman Parliament and the Armenian Question: November December 1918] Toplum ve Bilim. 91:142-166. 2000 Nüfusun Homojenleştirilmesi ve Ekonominin Türkleştirilmesi sürecinde bir 4
aşama: Türk - Yunan Nüfus Mübadelesi, 1923 1924, [Homogenizing the Nation,Turkifying the Economy: Turkish Experience of Populations Exchange Reconsidered, 1923-1924], Mübeccel Kıray için Yazılar. Istanbul: Bağlam yayınları, 2000. Pp. 77-111 2000 Niyazi Berkes in Türkiye de Çağdaşlaşma kitabını yeniden okumak [Rereading the Development of Secularism in Modern Turkey by Niyazi Berkes]. In İz Bırakmış Kıbrıslı Türkler 1. Sempozyumu [Turkish Cypriots who Influenced the World]. Edited by İsmail Bozkurt. Gazi Magosa: Cyprus Research Foundation. 59-69 1999a 1999b Turkish Attitudes vis à vis the Zionist Project, (with Soli Özel), CEMOTI (Cahiers d etudes sur la Méditerranée orientale et le monde turco-iranien) 28:129-147. Varlık Vergisi sırasında Gayrimenkul Satışları: Istanbul Tapu Kayıtlarının analizi (26 Aralık 1942-30 Haziran 1943) [Real Estate sales during the implementation of the Capital Levy: The Analysis of the Istanbul Public Deeds Office Records from December 26,1942 to June 30, 1943]. Toplumsal Tarih 69:8-19. 1998 Şark Ticaret Yıllıkları nda Sarı Sayfalar : İstanbul da Meslekler ve İktisadi faaliyetler hakkında bazı gözlemler, 1868 1938, [The Analysis of Yellow Pages in Annuaire Oriental, Commercial Guides to Istanbul: Changes in Occupational Structure and Economic Activities between 1868 and 1938]. Toplum ve Bilim 76:105-143. 1996a Economic Nationalism in Turkey: The Formative Years, 1912-1925, Boğaziçi Journal, Review of Social and Administrative Studies. 10/1-2:263-290. 1996b Trakya Yahudi Olaylarını Doğru Yorumlamak, [ Correctly Interpreting the Jewish Exodus from Eastern Thrace in 1934]. Tarih ve Toplum 155: 45-56. 1996c Varlık Vergisi ve Istanbul [The Capital Levy and Istanbul, 1942 1944], Toplum ve Bilim 71:97-149 1996d 1996e Cumhuriyetin İlk Yıllarında Uygulanan Türkleştirme Politikaları [Turkification Policies Implemented during the Early years of the Turkish Republic], Tarih ve Toplum 156: 4-18. Bursa da Devlet ve Ekonomi [State and Economy in Bursa], pp. 119-43 in Bir Masaldı Bursa. Engin Yenal, ed. Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları. 1994 Kamuya açık alanlarda postmodern çeşitlilik: Istanbul da Günübirlik Tatil, [Postmodern variations in Public Space: An Istanbul Daytrip]. Istanbul - Üç aylık Dergi 10: 59-62. 5
Research Experience: 2001 2002 Revisiting Bursa, after 20 years. Field research conducted in Bursa. 1996 Archival work on the social position of Non-Muslim minorities in Turkey: PRO, Kew Gardens, London. 1992 Archival work on the property sales in Istanbul during the days of WWII in Istanbul Public Deeds Office Records. 1981-82 Extensive field work on Bursa textile industry tracing the development patterns in small-scale production with reference to developing countries. 1981 Archival work in the records of the Bursa Chamber of Commerce, tracing the birth and rise of Turkish industrialists as a distinct social strata, focusing especially on patterns of entrepreneurship and the utilization of unpaid family labour in the process of change. 1981 Senior Research Fellow in Ereğli Revisited: 1962-1982, a follow-up study to the 1962 survey conducted in the small Black Sea town of Ereğli before the construction of the biggest steel plant in Turkey. I conducted interviews and studied the social process which transformed migrating peasants into steel workers. Titles of Some of the Courses Taught at Several Universities: Department of Political Science & International Relations, Marmara University : Sociology I and Sociology II Seminar on Social Change Social Change and Turkish Novel Seminar on Political Biography History of Turkish Political Thought: From Yusuf Akçura to Turgut Özal Department of Sociology, University of Michigan States and Non-Muslim Minorities in the Middle East Department of Anthropology, Yeditepe University Sociology of Work and Industry. Department of International Relations, Bahçeşehir University 6
Turkish and Ottoman Diplomats: Between East and West Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cyprus / Nicosia Turkish Politics Social Research in Turkey Social Transformations in Turkey Department of International Relations, Bilgi University States and Non-Muslim Minorities in the Middle East Politics and Policies in Greece and Turkey: Perspectives from both sides of the Aegean 7