Academic Career

2010 – Present: Lecturer in Politics and Active Citizenship, Department of Sociology, NUI Maynooth
2008 – 2010: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Koc University, Istanbul
2009 – 2010: Visiting Lecturer in International Relations, Beykent University, Istanbul
2007: PhD (Sociology), York University, Toronto.
2006: Visiting Lecturer in Social and Political Studies, Sabanci University, Istanbul
2002 – 2006: Research Fellow, Citizenship Studies Media Lab, York University, Toronto

Research Interests

Citizenship Studies – citizens’ engagement with, and enactment and disruption of citizenship regimes and habitus, classical and contemporary interpretations of liberal and republican theories of citizenship, and European citizenship

Nation and Nationalisms; Racial and Ethnic Politics; Minority Politics – Currently, I am in the process of co-authoring an article with Dr. Agnes Czajka of the American University in Cairo on the role played by the Lausanne Treaty of 1923 in the nationalisation of minority rights in Europe. This paper constitutes a part of a wider research theme provisionally titled “European Minority Politics” which comprises of an analysis of the emergence of the minority issue in continental Europe; the historical trajectory along which it has developed; the power relations embedded in its development; its historical and contemporary problematisations; its presence in contemporary European discourses on citizenship; and the manners in which various minority groups interpret their own political agencies vis-à-vis the polities they belong to as citizens.

European Studies – Europeanisation within and on the borders of the EU; construction and enactment of European identity

Contemporary Political Theory; Continental Social and Political Thought – Currently, I am in the process of conducting preliminary research on the manner in which different strands of European political thought has engaged with the question of responsibility.)

Historical Methods in Social Sciences; Discourse Analysis

Publications

2010 (forthcoming) – (with Fuat Keyman and Bahar Rumelili) “Multi-Layered Citizenship in Extended European Orders: Kurds Acting as European Citizens.” (Journal of Common Market Studies.)
2010 (forthcoming) – (with Fuat Keyman and Bahar Rumelili) “Turkey’s Conscientious Objectors and the Enactment of European Citizenship.” In Peter Burgess (ed.) A Threat Against Europe: Security, Migration, Integration. Brussels: IES.
2010 – (with Fuat Keyman and Bahar Rumelili) “Youth Acts of Citizenship in Turkey.” (Report prepared for ENACT: Enacting European Citizenship project funded by the European Commission), www.enacting-citizenship.eu
2009 – (with Fuat Keyman and Bahar Rumelili) “Non-Muslim Acts of European Citizenship.” (Report prepared for ENACT: Enacting European Citizenship project funded by the European Commission), www.enacting-citizenship.eu
2009 – (with Fuat Keyman and Bahar Rumelili) “Kurdish Acts of European Citizenship” (Report prepared for ENACT: Enacting European Citizenship project funded by the European Commission), www.enacting-citizenship.eu
2008 – “The Death of Socrates.” In Engin Isin and Greg Nielsen (eds.) Acts of Citizenship. London: Zed Books.
2008 – “Euthanasia.” In Engin Isin and Greg Nielsen (eds.) Acts of Citizenship. London: Zed Books.
2008 – (with Fuat Keyman and Bahar Rumelili) “Becoming What One Is: Enacting European Citizenship in Turkey.” (Report prepared for ENACT: Enacting European Citizenship project funded by the European Commission), www.enacting-citizenship.eu
2005 – “The Origins of Turkish Republican Citizenship: The Birth of Race.” Nations and Nationalism, 11(3): 343-360.
2005 – (with Engin F. Isin) “Türkiye’de Ulus-Devlet ve Vatandaşlığın Doğuşu (The Emergence of Nation-State and Citizenship in Turkey).” In Ayhan Kaya and Turgut Tarhanlı (eds.) Türkiye’de Azınlık ve Çoğunluk Politikaları: AB Sürecinde Yurttaşlık Tartışmaları (Majority/Minority Politics in Turkey: Citizenship Debates and Negotiations with the EU). Istanbul: TESEV.
 

Current Research

Please see research interests

Papers Delivered

Invited Presentations
“‘Enjoy Your Europe As Yourself!’: Politics of Securitisation in the European Union.” Centre for Migration and Refugee Studies, American University of Cairo, Cairo, Egypt. March 18, 2010.

“Critical Approaches in Citizenship Studies.” Centre for Migration and Refugee Studies, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt. December 16, 2009.

“Conducting Genealogy in Social and Political Sciences.” Department of International Relations, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. December 10, 2009.

“A Genealogy of the Nation.” Department of Social and Political Sciences, Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey. April 2, 2007.

“Sociology of the Nation: Toward a Genealogical Interpretation.” Department of Sociology, Boğaziçi University, February 11, 2007.

Conference Presentations
“Non-Muslim Acts of European Citizenship.” Enacting European Citizenship: Making Connections, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, October 2009. (With Fuat Keyman and Bahar Rumelili.)

“Towards a Post-Territorial Europe: Turks Acting as European Citizens.” The 50th Annual ISA Convention, New York, United States of America, February 2009. (With Fuat Keyman and Bahar Rumelili.)

“Responding in the ‘Face of Law’: Towards and Ethic of Testimony.” Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, March 2006. (With Agnes Czajka.)

“‘On the Vision and Riddle’ of Responsibility.” The 15th International Conference of Friedrich Nietzsche Society of Great Britain and Ireland: Nietzsche on Time and History, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, September 2005.

“Responsible Citizens, Fallen Beings.” Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, May 2005.
“Marching Toward Turkism: A Genealogy of Citizenship in Late Ottoman Empire.” Acts of Citizenship: A Symposium, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, March 2004.

“Citizen’s Memory: Remembering and Forgetting in the Early Turkish Republic.” Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, June 2003.

“The Pre-History of Turkish Citizenship: Modernisation Attempts in Late Ottoman Empire.” Young Turks: The State of Orientalism in the 21st Century, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America, November 2002.

Discussant
“Immigration and Citizenship.” Koç University Jean Monnet Chair Graduate Student Workship in EU-Turkey Affairs, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, May 8, 2009.

“Narratives of Nationalism and Resistance.” Strategies of Critique, Department of Social and Political Thought, York University, Toronto, Canada, April 24, 2005.
 

Teaching

Content to follow

Professional Membership

International Studies Association
The Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
 

Contact Details

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