Psychological underpinnings and treatments of trauma-related stress disorders (1) psychological underpinnings and treatments of social anxiety disorder (1) scalable psychosocial treatment and intervention programmes (1) refugee mental health (1) Late Antique and Byzantine archaeology and history of art (1) Byzantine Constantinople and Lycia (1) The Modern History of Russia (1) Ukraine (1) and Eastern Europe (1) the Culture of the Cold War (1) Russia in Global History (1) Mediterranean studies (1) Literary and cultural theory (1) Turkish literature (Ottoman and modern) (1) Arabic literature (1) World literature (1) Translation studies (1) Digital humanities (1) French and Francophone literature (1) Gender studies (1) Screenwritting (1) Film Analysis (1) Creative approches to film making (1) Leadership Emergence and Effectiveness (1) Photography: Basic/Creative/Digital (1) Advertising Photography (1) History of Photography (1) Diplomatic History (1) Modern European History (1) History of the Turkish Republic (1) Balkan History (1) New media technologies (1) Communication Psychology (1) Media Policy (1) Media Planning (1) Media Research and Consumer Behavior (1) Developmental Psychology (1) Applied Social Statistics (1) Sociology of Health and Illness (1) Sociology of Care (1) End of Life Studies (1) Disability Studies (1) Politics of Rehabilitation and the Body (1) History of journalism (1) technological frontiers of non-fiction storytelling (1) sustainable business models for journalism (1) My research aims to understand how our cognitive capabilities (and limitations) (1) prior experiences (1) cultural lens (1) beliefs and sociopolitical identity impact our everyday cognitive functioning. (1) Visual information processing (ensemble perception (1) working memory (1) graph processing) (1) Scientific reasoning & decision making (1) Culture (3) Cognition and Identity (Collective Memory (1) Future Thinking) (1) Political Economy of Media and Media Labor (1) Cultural Studies and Philosophy of Technology (1) Game Studies (1) sociology of intellectuals (1) sociology of art and literature (1) field theory (1) comparative and historical method (1) secularization (1) secularism (1) and secularity (1) power-states in the 21st century (1) Weber (1) Simmel (1) civic republicanism in sociology (1) I am a historical sociologist of culture and religion with a specific focus on intellectuals. My most recent work (1) on the forms of secularization in Turkish literary milieus (1) was published in New Perspectives on Turkey and the American Journal of Sociology. I am currently on leave as a Fulbright scholar at Harvard University to develop this project into a book. I am also writing a Turkish-language book on civic republicanism and developing journal articles on populism (1) reputational trajectories of dominated intellectuals (1) and the links among the freedom of expression (1) high-end technological development (1) and security. My past work (1) on politicization dynamics among U.S. poets (1) was published in Political Power and Social Theory and in the American Sociological Review. (1) Forensic Fantasies: Doctors (1) Documents and the Limits of Truth in Turkey. Medical Anthropology (1) Medical Anthropology Quarterly (2) Reproductive Health Matters (1) New Perspectives on Turkey (1) Communication (1) Culture & Critique (1) and Media (1) Culture & Society (1) I am a medical anthropologist with an interest in the intersections of human rights (1) gender (3) politics of care and body. I am currently working on my book manuscript tentatively titled (1) Documenting Bodies: Forensic Medicine Experts And Human Rights In Turkey. Based on ethnographic fieldwork (2011-2013) in human rights NGOs and forensic medicine institutions in Istanbul (1) the manuscript examines non-therapeutic clinical encounters and forensic documents as determinants of forms of violence in Turkey. I am also developing a second ethnographic project on kidney patients who go through both live-kidney transplantation and dialysis. My ethnographic research at the Kidney Foundation Hospital in Istanbul explores how patients and families deal with the hidden risks and dangers of routinization of live kidney transplant and techno-scientific imaginaries associated with it. My third ethnographic project concerns how patients attendants (refakatçı) are called upon to liaise with hospital staff. I am interested in how individuals (1) families (1) communities step in to account for (1) or compensate for (1) absences of care in biomedical expertise (1) institutions and practices. My research has led to several publications in peer-reviewed journals including Medical Anthropology (1) Reproductive Health Matters and New Perspectives on Turkey. I have also published articles in peer-reviewed journals in Turkish such as Toplum ve Bilim (1) Toplum ve Hekim and Moment Dergi. At Koç University (1) I teach classes in social anthropology (1) contemporary social theory and ethnographic research methods and writing. (1) Applied social psychology (1) social interactions and media (1) Industrial design (2) Design for behavior change (1) design theory (1) Film theory (1) Visual and Cultural Studies (1) Media and Identity (1) Sociology of migration (1) race and ethnicity (1) sociology of education (1) My primary fields of interests are the sociology of migration and education. My current works examine how the institutions (1) particularly educational institutions (1) respond the increasingly diversifying populations through immigrants and refugees. I am also investigating the formation of ethnic and symbolic boundaries between majority societies and immigrants and refugees in countries such as Turkey (1) Germany (1) Lebanon and the United States. I am recently working on a book manuscript to report the findings of this research. My earlier works on the identity formation and integration of the second generation youth appeared in the journals such as Ethnic and Racial Studies (1) Identities: Global Studies and Culture and Power (1) British Journal of Sociology of Education (1) and International Migration. (1) Epistemology (2) Philosophy of Mind (1) Philosophy of Language (2) Feminist philosophy (1) Contemporary French Philosophy (1) Ethics and Value Theory (1) Social and Political Philosophy (1) History of Turkish Thought (1) Clinical/community psychology (1) program evaluation (2) youth mentoring (1) evidence-based family therapy (1) substance abuse (1) family relationships (1) culture (1) Modern Turkish and European literature (1) literature and philosophy (1) migration (1) ecocriticism (1) contemporary poetry and poetics (1) race (1) ethnicity (2) and nationalism (1) crime and deviance (1) science and technology (1) death and dying. (1) My research interests revolve broadly around issues of formation of boundaries and identities. My earlier work on popular music examined how the boundaries between high and low aesthetic tastes were created and contested. I also worked on race (1) and nationalism in the context of early republican (1923-1950) and contemporary Turkey (1) analyzing the linkages between whiteness (1) Turkishness (1) and modernity as well as East and West. In contemporary Turkey (1) my research agenda is concerned with tracing the causes of interethnic conflict and prejudices. Death and dying has been another social domain in which I addressed issues of boundaries and identities. In a recent project (1) I studied death announcements published in a nationally circulated daily newspaper in Turkey in the last 40 years and observed the ways in which class distinction (1) cultural capital (1) gendered and ethnic inequalities (1) and consumption patterns emerged as important categories to locate the identities of the deceased and the bereaved in social and cultural hierarchies. My work on cultural and moral boundaries in Turkish society investigates the processes through which groups and individuals define their identities and distinguish themselves from the others using status symbols. These status symbols are structured by cultural consumption habits (such as music (1) literary and media consumption habits) (1) residential patterns (1) level of education and socio-economic status among others. My broad goals in this regard are to examine the construction and maintenance as well as crossing of boundaries in terms of the relationships between socio-economic variables (1) cultural consumption habits and moral judgments. The inquiry about moral boundaries involves the study of ideas and attitudes about religion (1) secularism and politics as well as abstract notions such as honesty and work ethics. (1) Suicide (1) Problem-Solving Therapy (1) Sexual Orientation and Sexual Minorities (1) Cultural Factors in Mental Health (1) Comparative Drama (1) Modern Theater (1) Theatre and Politics (1) Modern Acting Methods (1) Language and cognitive development (1) language and thought (1) neuropsychology of language (1) Sociology of education (1) social policy (1) youth studies (1) gender and education (1) Intellectual history (2) Islamic studies and jurisprudence (2) history of Middle East and Africa (2) history of education (2) history of religion (2) Human Memory (1) Autobiographical Memory (1) Design for health and wellbeing (1) Design for user experience (UX) (1) Methods of user research (1) Comparative and historical sociology (1) development sociology (1) political sociology (3) I joined the Koç University faculty in 2015 after completing a PhD in sociology at Johns Hopkins University. My scholarly interests include political economy (1) historical sociology (3) rural development (1) social movements (2) and welfare politics (1) with a focus on China (1) India (1) and Turkey. I teach courses on social theory (1) and Asian political economy. I was a Fox International Fellow at the MacMillan Center at Yale University in 2006-07 and a visiting researcher at the Center for Rural China Governance at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2012 (1) the Center for Development Studies in Trivandrum (1) Kerala in 2013 (1) and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University in Summer 2016. (1) Social and Political Thought (1) Human Geography (1) Critical Race Theory (1) Astrophotography (1) Ottoman urban history (1) early modern history (1) architectural history (1) Ottoman cultural interactions with Europe (1) Iran and India (1) urban migration and the underworld (1) and urban historiography. (1) Ancient Mediterranean Maritime Landscapes and Communities (1) Maritime Archaeological Theory and History (1) Maritime Cultural Heritage Management (1) Roman and Byzantine Archaeology (1) History of Science and Technology (1) Migration Studies (1) Citizenship (1) International Organizations (1) Civil Society (1) Nationalism and Ethnicity (1) Medical and health humanities (1) comparative literature (1) postcolonial studies (1) modernism (1) Philosophy of Curiosity (1) Theories of Truth and Falsity (1) Study of Late Byzantine Constantinople (1) then the exploration of retrospective and narrative tendencies in Late Byzantine art and their comparisons with similar processes in Western medieval art. (1) Economic and Social History (1) Quantitative History (1) Geospatial and Digital Humanities (1) I'm an ethicist. I'm currently working on various projects that have to do with the following topics: non-naturalist moral realism (1) the moral significance of relationships (1) animal ethics (1) activism. (1) Ottoman literature and culture (1) literary multilingualism (1) comparative Middle Eastern literatures (1) travel writing (1) historical fiction. (1) Quantitative methodology (1) parenting interventions (1) education policy. (1) His main focus is in the study of two extensive Late Byzantine hoards at the British Museum (UK) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) New York (USA). Apart from them (1) he participates in the following * ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECTS: -Excavations of the Netherlands Institute in Turkey at Barçın Höyük (1) Nicaea/Iznik district. Responsible for the publication of the Byzantine cemetery. - Tekfur Sarayi Excavations. Responsible for the publication of the Byzantine pottery. - Walls of Istanbul Project (1) GABAM. Digital documentation of the Byzantine fortifications. - Excavations at the city of Thebes (1) Central Greece: Ismenion Hill Project by the Bucknell University under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1) and Kadmeia Citadel by the Greek Archaeological Society. Team member and responsible for the Byzantine period finds. (1) Political and Historical Sociology (1) State Formation (1) Nationalism (1) 19th Century Ottoman Empire. (1) Language and communication development in young monolingual and bilingual children (1) Politics of heritage (1) governance and sovereignty (1) actions of diplomacy and development (1) preservation and international relations (1) museum studies (1) and the implications of archaeological research in our understanding of the past. Her recent book (1) A Pearl in Peril: Archaeology and Diplomacy in Turkey was published 2019 with Oxford University Press. She serves as editor of the Journal of Field Archaeology.  (1) Bronze and Iron Ages of the Ancient Near East (Southwest Asia) (1) Bronze Age Aegean (1) Old Assyrian Trading Colony (1) Hittite Civilization (1) Monumental architecture (1) Crafts and technologies (1) Material culture (1) Cultural heritage preservation (1) Urban history (1) labor history (1) late Ottoman Empire (1) Contemporary Art and Socially Engaged-Spatial Practices (1) Artistic Research (1) Film (1) Printed Matter (1) Heritage (1) Politics of Affect (1) Food Sovereignty and Coops. (1) After receiving my B.Sc (1) in Mathematics (1) I switched to Philosophy and completed my Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2013 at Harvard. My dissertation (1) Knowledge in Action (1) investigates the role of reason and self-knowledge in acting intentionally (1) and was written under the supervision of Sean Kelly (1) Richard Moran (1) and Matthew Boyle. In addition to my dissertation supervisors (1) Charles Parsons (1) Warren Goldfarb (1) and Douglas Lavin influenced my thinking a great deal during my graduate work. John McDowell and Charles Travis were key influencers outside of Harvard. I work on philosophy of mind (1) with a focus on action because (as O'Schaughnessy puts it) the phenomenon of bodily action set in a public and physical environment is a particularly appropriate place to focus to study mind in this materialistic age. My earlier research was on the possibility of acting (1) by itself (1) to be a way of acquiring knowledge of the objective world - so I worked on the object of the agent's non-observational knowledge. My current research lies at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language (1) and investigates self-consciousness both in action and perception and the use of the first-person pronoun in expressing such consciousness. In this investigation I focus on Kant (1) Frege (1) Wittgenstein and Anscombe. (1) The Archaeology and Prehistory of Anatolia and the Near East (1) Cultural Interaction (1) Neolithization (1) Early Complex Societies (1) Microarchaeology (1) Soil Chemical Analyses (1) Creative thinking (1) design (1) Interactive media design (1) Journalism (1) digital media (1) history of new media (1) media and politics (1) media activism (1) European (British (1) French (1) Italian) interventions in the post-Ottoman world (1) legal history (1) jurisdictional politics and legal pluralism (1) property formation and property conflicts in colonial settings. (1) Ottoman Art (1) Ottoman Painting (1) Interactions of European and Ottoman Culture (1) Late Antique and Byzantine Constantinople (1) Byzantine archaeology and architecture (1) diachronic aspects of architecture and space (1) cultural heritage and communities (1) interpretation of Byzantine heritage and public archaeology. Special interest areas include: Middle Byzantine monastic architecture (1) Late Antique and Byzantine fortifications and city walls (1) small finds in archaeological contexts (1) material evidence from Byzantine-period archaeology. (1) Bronze and Iron Age Anatolian and Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology (1) Classical Archaeology (1) Lydian (1) Persian (1) and Greek Interaction in Western Anatolia (1) Landscape Archaeology (1) Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (1) Digital Archaeology (1) Ethics (1) Ancient Philosophy (1) History of Philosophy (1) Encoding and Retrieval Processes of Memory (1) Divided Attention (1) Reaction Times (1) Cognitive Ageing (1) Cognitive Training (1) Bilingualism / Multilingualism (1) Video Games (1) My research is in ancient philosophy (1) and I have interests in contemporary ethics (1) ”especially virtue ethics (1) ”and areas of political philosophy. In ancient philosophy (1) I work on questions in Plato's ethics (1) psychology (1) and epistemology (1) and in particular his views on the nature of belief and perception and how these relate to non-rational cognition and motivation. (1) Social innovation (1) tactile interactions (1) social design (1) futures of wellbeing (1) social internet of things (1) critical interactions (1) co-design (1) design anthropology (1) Ancient numismatics (1) monetary history (1) commercial weights (1) markets (1) Ancient Greek and Roman history & culture (1) Greek and Latin Language and Literature (1) Social Geography of Byzantine Constantinople (1) Ottoman Greeks (1) Karamanlidika (1) Ethnicity and Identity (1) Classical Political Thought. (1) Intellectual and political history of the late Ottoman Empire. History of Sephardic Communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Perceptions of identity in the Modern Middle East (1) HIV-related stigma and discrimination (1) Stigma and discrimination related to living as a refugee (1) substance use (1) and other identities and conditions (1) Effects of interpersonal processes on health (1) Effects of negative social evaluation on biological markers of health (1) Stress and hormone reactivity (cortisol (1) testosterone (1) alpha amylase) (1) Social support and attachment (1) Typography (1) Graphic Communication Design (1) Close relationships (1) emotion regulation (1) partner responsiveness (1) relationship maintenance (1) well-being (1) Comparative Ottoman literature(s) (1) modern Armenian literature (1) theater and dramatic literature (1) modern Turkish novel (1) tragedy and tragic culture (1) world literature and the global novel (1) economics and literature (1) sociology of literature. (1) Inge Uytterhoevens research integrates material and written evidence and focuses on Hellenistic (1) Roman and Late Antique housing in Anatolia and the Eastern Mediterranean (1) as well as on public architecture and broader urban studies related to these periods and regions. She has worked on archaeological sites in Belgium (1) Italy (1) Greece (1) Egypt (1) and Turkey. Since 1997 she has been involved with field research (1) including excavations and architectural studies (1) carried out by KU Leuven at Sagalassos (AÄŸlasun (1) Burdur). Between 2013 and 2019 she conducted an architectural survey at Limyra (Finike (1) Antalya) within the framework of the Limyra Project of the Austrian Archaeological Institute. (1) International Migration (1) Governance (1) Gender Studies (1) Urban Studies (1) Social Policy (1) Drawing (1) Art and Design (1) Prints and Book Arts (1) Ottoman and Arab history and historiography (1) history of concepts (1) spatial history (1) maritime history (1) Mediterranean (1) Red Sea (1) Indian Ocean (1) History of Islamic Art and Architecture (1) Medieval Anatolian Architecture and Urban History (1) Cross-cultural exchange in the Medieval era (1) Interactive Media Design (1) Interaction and User Experience Design (1) Interface and Information Design (1) Extended Reality (1) Creative Thinking in Design (1) Social welfare (1)