Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey

University of Washington Press

1997

Contributors

 

Yesim Arat is a professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul. She is the author of The Patriarchal Paradox: Women Politicians in Turkey (1989). Her current work is on contemporary feminist activity in Turkey.

Sibel Bozdogan is an associate professor of architecture in the History Theory Criticism section of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She teaches courses on the architecture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the coauthor of Sedad Eldem: Architect in Turkey (1987) and is currently working on architecture and nationalism in the making of modern Turkey.

Ernest Gellner was a professor of philosophy with special reference to sociology at the London School of Economics from 1962 to 1984, professor of anthropology at the University of Cambridge from 1984 to 1992, and head of the Centre for the Study of Nationalism at the Central European University, Prague, at the time of his death in 1995. He wrote more than twenty books, among them Nations and Nationalism (1983) and Anthropology and Politics (1995).

Nilüfer Göle is an associate professor of sociology at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul. Her current research interests and publications concentrate on the place of religion in modern Turkish society. She is the author of Forbidden Modern (1997; in Turkish, 1991).

Haldun Gülalp is an assistant professor of sociology at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul. Among his recent publications are articles on the crisis of Westernization in Turkey and on Islamism and postmodernism. His research interests center on Third World studies and political sociology, with a current project on social and political change in contemporary Turkey.

Deniz Kandiyoti is a senior lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She is the editor of Women, Islam and the State (1991) and Gendering the Middle East (1995) and the author of numerous articles on gender and ideology in Turkey and the Middle East.

Resat Kasaba is an associate professor of international studies at the University of Washington. He has published Ottoman Empire and the World Economy: The Nineteenth Century (1988), Cities in a World System (1991), and articles on the social and economic history of the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish republic. Currently he is researching state policies toward labor migration in the Ottoman Empire and its successor states.

Çaglar Keyder is a professor of sociology at Binghamton University. Among his publications are Turkey: The Definition of a Peripheral Economy (1981), State and Class in Turkey (1987), and numerous articles on the history and politics of modern Turkey.

Serif Mardin is a professor of sociology at the School of International Service at American University. He has written extensively on Ottoman and Turkish cultural history, including Religion and Social Change in Modern Turkey (1988).

Michael E. Meeker is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. He has conducted several research projects in Turkey, in Trabzon and Antalya from 1966 to 1968 and in Istanbul from 1986 to 1988. He has also published books and articles on the oral traditions and social institutions of pastoral peoples. He is now completing a book on local elites in the eastern districts of Trabzon.

Joel S. Migdal is the Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington. He writes on the interaction of Israelis and Palestinians and, more generally, on state-society relations. His books include Strong Societies and Weak States (Princeton University Press) and, with Baruch Kimmerling, Palestinians: The Making of a People (Harvard University Press).

Gülsüm Baydar Nalbantoglu teaches architectural history, theory, and design at the School of Architecture, National University of Singapore. She is co-editor of the forthcoming book Postcolonial Space(s) (Princeton Architectural Press) and has published articles on various aspects of modern architecture in Turkey and postcolonial architectural conditions outside the West.

Roger Owen is the A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History at Harvard University and director of the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He works primarily in the economic history of the Middle East and has published The Middle East in the World Economy 1800–1914.

Meral Özbek is an assistant professor of sociology at the Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul. Her research interests are in cultural studies. She is the author of Popular Culture and Orhan Gencebay’s Arabesk (in Turkish, 1991).