Prof. Dr. FULYA ATACAN

Curriculum Vitae 

Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations

Address:

Yildiz Technical University, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences Department of Political Science and International Relations Main Campus, 34349 Yildiz, Istanbul – Turkey

Tel: 212 – 383 70 70 (2551)

Fax: 212 – 327 24 63

E-mail: atacan@yildiz.edu.tr

Academic Degrees and Career

1982          BA, Political Science, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Marmara University.

1984          MA, Political Science, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Marmara University.

1985                      Research Assistant on Sociology, Marmara University.

1989                      Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Institute of Social Science, Marmara University. The title of Ph.D. thesis was “Social Change and the Sufi Orders, The Case of Cerrahis”.

1990                      Visiting Lecturer, Department of Islamic Languages and Cultures, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

                    Lecturer, Erasmus Summer Programme “Islam in Europe”, Louvain la Neuve University, Belgium.

1992           Visiting Lecturer, Department of Islamic Languages and Cultures, University  of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

1993                      Assistant Professor of Political History at the Department of Political Sciences and International Relations, Marmara University.

1998                       Associate Professor, Department of Political Sciences and International Relations, Marmara University.

2000                        Associate Professor, Department of Political Sciences and International Relations, Yildiz Technical University.

2004            Professor, Department of Political Sciences and International Relations, Yildiz Technical University.

Awards and Scholarships

1986                     Scholarship awarded by the Methodist Church for research at the Center for Christian-Muslim Relations, Selly Oaks, Birmingham, U.K.

1989            Scholarship awarded by M.Th. Houtsma Foundation for research at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.               

1990            NWO (The Netherlands Foundation for Pure Scientific Research) Fellow University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

1991                          Research Fellow of the Norwegian Research Foundation at the Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Bergen, Norway.

1994                           Visiting Research Fellow, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Development Studies and Human Rights, Bergen, Norway.

Salzburg Seminar Fellow, “Religion, Ethnicity, and Self-Identity”, July 2-9, Salzburg, Austria.

1995                            Scholarship awarded by the Center for Arab Unity Studies for learning Arabic in Egypt.

Administrative Positions

September 1995- March 1998            Vice Chairperson, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University.

March 2000 - June 2002                     Assistant Director, Social Science Institute (Graduate School), Yildiz Technical University.

September 2000- April 2005               Vice Chairperson, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Yildiz Technical University.

April 2005- April 2006                        Chairperson, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Yildiz Technical University.

                                               Papers Presented in Conferences

1992                               “Kasabada Yaşanan İktidar İlişkileri ve Tarikat”, III. National Congress of Social Sciences, 21-23 October, Ankara, Turkey.

1993                               “Türkiye’de Toplumsal Değişme ve Dinsellikteki Artış”, I. National Congress of Sociology, 3-5 November, İzmir, Turkey.

1994                               “Islams in Modern Turkey”, XIIIth World Congress of Sociology, 18-23 July, University of Bielefeld, Germany.

“The Political Context of Research: The Case of Islam”, MEAwards Workshop on Qualitative Methods, 25-28 July, İstanbul, Turkey.

1996                               “Tarikat ve Göç”, II. National Congress of Sociology, 20-22 November, Mersin, Turkey. 

“Islamist Women and Social Change in Modern Turkey”, XVIIIth Mediterranean Conference, 8-11 July, İstanbul, Turkey.

2000                 “Can Islam Contribute to Peace”, Religion and Peace Studies, Adam Institute, 21-25 May, Jarusalem, Israel. 

“Secularism in Turkey and the Arab World”, IIéme congrés du dialogue arabo-turc sur: Modernisation Politique, Economique et Scientifique dans les Pays Arabes et en Turquie (1918-1998), 2-5 June, Zaghouan, Tunusia.

“Islam and the Future of Europe”, Approaching a New Millenium, VIIth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, 14-18 August, Bergen, Norway.

2001                “Changing Patterns of Islamic Groupings in Turkey”, International Summer Acedemy; The Local Production of Islamic Knowledge, 3-14 September, Istanbul, Turkey.

2002                “Being a Naqshibandi in the 1930’s and 1940’s in Turkey: Opponent or Companion”, The Intellectual Legacy of Authoritarian Regimes Near Eastern, Central and Eastern European Perspectives, 21-23 March, Swedish Research Institute, Istanbul, Turkey.

“Islam and Secularism: The Case of Turkey”, Cultural Frontiers in Question: Nation, Religion, Refugees, 10-12 July, University of Canberra, Australia.

“AKP versus SP: Analysis of Party Programmes”, Islamism and Secularism in the light of the November Elections, 29 November, Swedish Research Institute, Istanbul, Turkey.

“Türkiye’de Krizli Yılların Toplumsal Sonuçları”, 2003’e Girerken Sorunlar ve Arayışlar, 27. İktisatçılar Haftası, 19-21 December 2002, Istanbul.

2003               “Le programme de l’AKP et son rapport au Saadet”, L’AKP au pouvoir, un an aprés : l’épreuve du systéme, 12-13 December 2003, Paris,       France.

2004              “Explaining Religious Politics at the Crossroads : AKP and SP”, Religion and Politics in Turkey, Turkish Studies Workshop, 2-3 July, Istanbul, Turkey.

“İki Devletli Çözüm Modelinden Tek Devlete ?”, İsrail/Filistin Çatışması:Çıkmazın Nedenleri, Çözümüm İpuçları, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi-TÜSİAD Dış Politika Forumu, 12 July, Istanbul, Turkey.

2006                 “The Case of the AKP in Turkey”, Second World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, 11-16 June, Amman, Jordan.

                        Transatlantic Dialogue on Religion and Politics: Concepts, Definitions, and Trends, AICGS, The Johns Hopkins University, 7 July, Washington, USA.

2007               “How Islamic movements became a threat to Middle East Security?”, Challenges to Middle East Security: Contribution of the International Organizations, Dokuz Eylül University, 25-26 April, İzmir, Turkey.

Publications

Sosyal Değişme ve Tarikat, Cerrahiler (Social Change and the Sufi Orders, Cerrahis), Hil Yayın, Istanbul, 1990.

 “Radical Islamic Thought in Turkey”, Current Turkish Thought, 1991, N. 64, pp. 1-21.

 “Türkiye’de İslami Farklılaşma” (Islamic Differentiation in Turkey), Marmara Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, Prof. Mübeccel Kıray’a Armağan Özel Sayısı, 1991, V. 1-2, pp. 217-228.

Kutsal Göç, Radikal İslamcı Bir Grubun Anatomisi (Radical Islam, Anatomy of an Islamic Group), Bağlam Yayınları, Istanbul, 1993.

“Anadolu Gazetesi ve ‘Süleymancılar’”(Anadolu Newspaper and the Suleymancıs), Toplumbilim, 1994, V. 2, pp. 135-152.

“Mısır’da İslami Örgütlenmeler, Siyaset ve Türkiye Örneği” (Islamic Groups in Egypt, Politics and Turkey), Sosyal Demokrat Değişim, 1997, S. 7, pp. 114-126.

“Tarikat ve Göç” (Sufi Orders and Migration), Göç ve Türkiye, Sosyoloji Derneği Yayınları, Ankara, 1997, pp. 289-294.

“Yahudi Radikalizmi, Evengelizm ve Yeni Sağ” (Jewish Radicalism, Evangelism and New Right), Toplumbilim, 1998, S. 8, pp. 43-52.

“A Portrait of a Naqshbandi Sheikh in Modern Turkey”, Naqshbandis in Western and Central Asia, Ed. Elizabeth Özdalga, Swedish Research Institute, Istanbul, 1999, pp. 147-157.

“Cemaleddin Kaplan’s ‘Union of Islamic Societies and Communities’ (ICCB) in Germany”, Turkish Islam and Europe, Eds. G. Seufert & J. Waardenburg, Beiruter Texte und Studien, Band 82, İstanbul, 1999, pp. 241-259. 

“Migration, Change and the Tarikat”, Les Annales de l’Autre Islam, 1999, N. 6, pp. 91-97.

“28 Şubat 1997: Türk-İslam Sentezi’nin Sonu” (28 February 1997: End of the Turkish Islamic Synthesis), Mübeccel Kıray İçin Yazılar, Yay. Haz. F. Atacan, F. Ercan, H. Kurtuluş, M. Türkay, Bağlam Yayınları, İstanbul, 2000, pp.113-138.

“Can Islam Contribute to Peace?”, Adam’s Voice, 2000, Vol. 4, s. 8-9.

“Islam and the Future of Europe”, Approaching a New Millenium, Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of the International society for the Study of European Ideas, 2001, CD-Rom.

“A Kurdish Islamist Group in Modern Turkey: Shifting Identities”, Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 37, N. 3, July 2001, pp. 111-144.

 “’Yaramaz’ Muhalefet, “Uslu” İktidar, SP-AKP Parti Programları” (“Naughty” in Opposition, “Obedient” in Power: SP-AKP Party Programs) , İktisat Dergisi, 2002, S. 431, pp. 60-66.

“Türkiye’de Krizli Yılların Toplumsal Sonuçları” (Social Effects of the Crisis in Turkey), İktisat Dergisi, 2002, S. 432, s. 143-146.

“Irak İşgali ve Ortadoğu’daki İslami Hareketler Üzerine Notlar” (Some Notes on Invasion of Iraq and Islamic Movements in the Middle East), İktisat Dergisi, 2003, S. 436, pp. 69-73.

Değişen Toplumlar Değişmeyen Siyaset; Ortadoğu (Changing Societies, Unchanging Politics: The Middle East), F. Atacan (Ed.), Bağlam Yayınları, Istanbul, 2004.

“Explaining Religious Politics at the Crossroad: AKP-SP”, Turkish Studies, 2005, Vol.6, N. 2, pp. 187-199.

“Explaining Religious Politics at the Crossroad: AKP-SP”, Religion and Politics in Turkey, Eds. B. Rubin, A. Çarkoğlu, Routledge Curzon, London, 2005, s. 45-59.