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Atacan Atakan
Sabanci University
Occupation
Lecturer
Contact
Secondary Email: [email protected]
Primary Phone: +90-5354658589
Sabanci University Foundation Development Directorate
Orta Mahalle Universite Caddesi No. 27 Tuzla
İstanbul 34956
Turkey
ABOUT
A Teacher, Agitator, and Guide: Talebe Defteri and Formation of an Ideal Child, 1913-1919, Istanbul: Libra Yayinevi, 2016. “Öldürmek ya da Öldürmemek: Balkan Savaslari Sonrasi Çocuklarin Ekonomik Alanda Seferber Edilmesi ve Irkçiligin Izdüsümleri” [To Kill or Not to Kill: State Racism and Children’s Mobilization in Economic Realm During the Post-Balkan Wars Era] in Türkiye’de Tarih ve Tarihçilik: Kavramlar ve Pratikler [History and Historiography in Turkey: Concepts and Practices], ed. Ümit Kurt and Dogan Gürpinar, Ankara: Heretik Yayincilik, 2018. “Creating an Enemy: Children’s Magazines and Different Faces of Enmity (1913-1918),” Athens Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Vol. 1 No. 4, (2015): 341-356. Review of Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire, by Nazan Maksudyan, Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online, Vol. 3, no: 4 (April 2015).
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Gender/Women's Studies
Ottoman Studies
Identity/Representation
Nationalism
19th-21st Centuries
Historiography
Middle East/Near East Studies
Theory
Theater
Queer/LGBT Studies
Pop Culture
Modernization
Islamic Thought
Geographic Areas of Interest
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Balkans
Europe
All Middle East
Specialties
History Of Childhood In The Late Ottoman Empire
Theories Of Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality
Social And Intellectual Hist. Of The Late Ottoman
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (fluent)
Arabic (intermediate)
Ottoman (advanced)
French (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2023 | School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies | University of Arizona
MA | 2014 | The Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History | Bogazici University
BA | 2011 | Global and International Affairs | SUNY, Binghamton University
BA | 2011 | Global and International Affairs | Bilkent University
Abstracts
Exploration of the Dim Fringes: Children’s Sexuality, Gender, and Corporeality in Ottoman Empire during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Childrenʼs Sexuality in Late Ottoman Empire and Its Legacies in Contemporary Turkey