Faik Gür

FAIK GÜR
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
December 2006
Department of History in conjunction with the Department of
Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin (UT)
Dissertation: “Sculpting Turkish Nationalism: Atatürk Monuments
in Early Republican Turkey”
Supervisor: Abraham Marcus, professor of social and cultural
history of the early modern and modern Middle East, Department of
History, UT.
MA
August 2000
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) in conjunction with
the Department of Anthropology, UT.
Thesis: “Visualizing Turkish Nationalism”
Adviser: Nina Berman, professor of Germanic Studies and CMES,
UT.
MA
1996-1998
The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History in conjunction
with the Department of Sociology, Boğaziçi University (BU),
İstanbul, (all but degree)
Thesis: “History of Agrarian Transformation in an Anatolian
Village”
Adviser: Çağlar Keyder, professor of sociology at Binghamton
University and Bogaziçi University.
BA
1993-1996
Political Science and Public Administration, unofficial minor
in sociology, Middle East Technical University (METU).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Fall 2005-2007
Lecturer, History Program, Sabancı University
Courses Taught:
Doctoral-Master Level Courses
Sources & Methods for Early Republican History (1923-1938)
Sources & Methods for Early Republican History (1939-1960)
Explorations in World History I (Historical Sociology I)
Explorations in World History II (Historical Sociology II)
Art and Power (Politics of Art and Architecture in Turkey, Italy,
Germany and the Soviet Union between two World Wars)
Undergraduate Level Courses
Art and Power (art and architectural culture, especially
figurative and abstract monuments and statues of the late
Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey compared to
other countries, especially the Russian Empire/Soviet Union)upper division
History of Modern Turkey (since 1908)-lover division
Spring 2003-Fall 2004
Associate Instructor, Department of History, UT
Courses Taught:
Introduction to Turkish History and Culture (since 1800s)
undergraduate-upper division
History of the Arab People, undergraduate-upper division
United States of America since 1865-lower division
Fall 2002
Associate Instructor, in charge of Turkish Studies Program,
Department of Middle Eastern Studies, UT
Courses Taught:
Courses in Turkish Language and Literature, undergraduategraduate
Fall 1998-Spring 2001
Teaching Assistant
Turkish Studies Program, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, UT
1997- 1998
Teaching Assistant
The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, BU
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN HISTORICAL STUDIES
Fall 2007
Project Coordinator for initial preparation of the project,
“600 Hundred Years of an Anatolian Village,” to be submitted to
TUBİTAK for a possible grant.
Spring-Fall 2007
Project manager
Online Turkish Cinema Archive:
A Searchable Data Base (1895-1945),
Faculty of Communication, Bilgi University
Spring 2003-Fall 2004
Project manager
Personal Digital Archive on Early Republican Turkey
supported by the Department of History, UT. This is
the largest personal digital archive on Early
Republican Turkey. It consists of primary documents,
collected from five different cities (Istanbul, Ankara,
Samsun, Afyon, and İzmir) and 15 different local and
national archives. It also includes major newspapers
and periodicals published between 1923 and 1940.
Fall 2001
Research Assistant
CMES, UT
Developed a reading packet for a course on Shia
Islam and Modern Iranian History.
Fall 2000
Research Assistant
CMES, UT
Developed a reading packet for a course on Islam,
Art, Gender, and Politics
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES
Field Research for MA thesis, Boğaziçi University
Fall 1996- Fall 1997
Project: “Agrarian Transformation in a C-type Anatolian Village”
Supervisor: Prof.Dr.Çağlar Keyder
Summer 1994
Project Coordinator, Turkish Folklore Society, METU
Project: “Cultural and Economic Transformation in an Anatolian Village”
Summer 1994
Data Analysts/ Interviewer, Department of Sociology, METU
Project: “Agrarian Transformation in the Aegean Region”
Project by Prof. Dr. Korkut Boratav and Prof. Dr Mehmet Ecevit
Summer 1992-Fall 1994
Interviewer/ Data Analysts, Department of Sociology, METU
Project: “MISKETBA” (Social transformation in classes among residence
in squatter settlements in Ankara) Project by Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ecevit
December 1993
Project Coordinator, Turkish Folklore Society, METU
Project: Pastoral Nomads in the Adana Region
Supervisor: Associate Prof. Sharon Baştuğ
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN LANGUAGE STUDIES
Fall 2004-Spring 2005
Executive Coordinator
CMES, UT
Project: “Turkish through Short Stories” for
the third-year Turkish. Developing an
interactive course book for newly created
third-year Turkish.
Fall 2002-Fall 2003
Fall 2000-2001
Research Assistant
Project Coordinator
CMES, UT
Project: “101 Turkish
Dunwoody Press, 2004
Idiomatic
Expressions”,
CMES, UT
Project: “Practice Your Turkish Online”
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Sociological History of Modern Middle East, specialization in Political, Social and
Cultural History of Modern Turkey.
World History, Historical Sociology: structural transformation of agrarian societies,
specialization in Anatolia (1800-onwards)
Modern Political Theory, Historiography, Nationalism, High Modernisms
History of urban development in the 19th and 20th centuries.
PUBLICATIONS
“Abide-i Cumhuriyet” (Monuments of the Republic/ The Monumental Republic)
(forthcoming), İletişim Yayınları, expected publication date: Summer 2008.
“Atatürk heykelleri ve Türkiye’de resmi tarihin görselleşmesi (Atatürk Statues and
Visualization of Official History in Turkey),” Toplum ve Bilim, Fall 2001, 90, pp.147-166.
“Uşak Araştırması Raporu” (A Report on the Transformation of Agrarian Structures in an
Anatolian Village), Halkbilim (Folklore), 1999, issue 7, 8 & 9.
“Son Göçebeler ve Hayatta Kalma Savaşları (Last Nomads and Their War for Survival),”
Folklore/Edebiyat (Folklore/Literature), March, 1997, 9, pp. 28-40.
WORK IN PROGRESS
“Sculpting National Identity in Turkey: Taksim Square and the Taksim Monument”, an
academic article to be submitted to the Journal of Historical Geography.
“Is the Statue of Liberty an Ottoman Statue?”, a documentary to be submitted to the
History Channel.
“Online Turkish Cinema Archive”, a searchable data base on the history of Turkish
Cinema in coloration with the Faculty of Communication at Bilgi University.
“A Monograph of an Anatolian Village”, a project to be submitted to TUBİTAK for
possible grant.
PRESENTATIONS-TALKS
“Sources of Official Ideology in Early Republican Turkey”, Yıldız University, Political
Science and International Relations, March 2008.
“Art, Power, and Politics in the Early Republican Turkey”, Orient Institute-Istanbul, 2006
'Rites et Symboles Politiques de la Turquie I, II & III’, IFEA, 2006-2007
“Reading the city through Statues and Monuments,” Department of Sociology, Mimar
Sinan University, July 2005
“Sculpting Turkish Nationalism: Atatürk Statues,” Department of History, Bilgi
University, May 2005
“Politics of Statuary,” Faculty of Communication, Bahçeşehir University, July 2005
“Monuments and Nationalism,” The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2003.
“Görselleşen Tarih,” Toplumsal Araştırmalar Vakfı, Ankara, December, 2001.
GRANTS
Spring 2007
Spring 2004
Spring 2003
Fall 2003
Spring 2002
Fall 2001
Fall 2000
Spring 1999
Research Grant, Bilgi University
Research Grant, Gardner F. Marston Endowed History Scholarship
Dora Foundation Travel Grant, UT
Dora Foundation Travel Grant, UT
Graduate School Travel Grant, UT
Liberal Arts Research Grant, UT
Liberal Arts Research Grant, UT
University of Texas Continuing Fellowship, UT
ORGANIZATION, LEADERSHIP AND COORDINATION ACTIVITIES
Committee Member
Liberal Arts Research Grant, Liberal Arts, CMES, UT
Fall 2003
Leading Coordinator
Panel and film festival, “Cinematic Expressions: Visions
of Modernity in Turkey,” 10 movies, 10 Scholars, UT,
Spring 2003
Executive Coordinator
Academic talk, “AKP and Secularization in Turkey,” by
Haldun Güllap, Professor at Boğaziçi University
supported by CMES, UT, Fall 2002
Committee Member
Liberal Arts Research Grant, Liberal Arts, CMES, UT,
Fall 2002
Executive Coordinator
Academic talk, “Comparative Analysis of the Great
Depression” by Şevket Pamuk, Professor at BU
supported by CMES, Fall 2001
LANGUAGES
Turkish: native speaker
Ottoman Turkish: matbu
English: fluent
French: Basic
COMPUTER SKILLS
Adobe Premier-Film Editing, Photoshop, Web-design, Digital Cameras
AFFILIATIONS AND EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
2007-present
2002-present
2003-2004
1998-2003
1989-1996
EKOTOPYA (Ekolojik Ütopyalar Derneği)
American Research Institute in Turkey
Anatolian Cultural Studies Association, UT
Turkish University Student Association, UT
Turkish Folklore Society, METU