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Department of Political Science
Bilkent University Bilkent
Ankara
06800
Turkey
ABOUT
Alev Çınar is Professor of Political Science at Bilkent University, Turkey. She received her MA in Sociology from Bogazici University and PhD in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked as a research fellow in Urban Studies at the International Center for Advanced Studies-NYU, in Women’s Studies at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center-UMass at Amherst, at Bryn Mawr College as a Fulbright Visiting Specialist, and at the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Sciences. Her current research interests include the intellectual foundations of politics; Islamic thought; political Islam; state, nationhood, and citizenship; gender and patriarchal statehood; nation-building, modernity, gender, secularism, and Islam in Turkey. She has received various awards and grants from different institutions including Fulbright, Ford Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Mellon Foundation, United States Institute of Peace, Institute for Advanced Study membership, and she received a Distinguished Teacher Award from Bilkent University in 2008, and the Boğaziçi University, Üstün Ergüder Research Award in Political Science in 2017. She is currently conducting a research project titled “The Islamic Intellectual Field and Political Theorizing in Turkey,” under an EU-H2020, MSCA-Global Fellowship (2021-2024) at Stanford University.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Cultural Studies
Identity/Representation
Nationalism
Turkish Studies
Urban Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Modernization
Geographic Areas of Interest
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Specialties
Islamic Intellectuals In Turkey
Postcolonialism And Eurocentricism
Comparative Political Theory
Languages
French (elementary)
Turkish (native)
English (fluent)
Education
PhD
| 1998
| Pol Sci
| U of Pennsylvania
Abstracts
Locating Political Theory: Merging of Western Intellectual Traditions with Islamic Thought
Bringing the Ottoman Back in: The New Role Model of Turkish Modernity at the Turn of the Century
Toward an Anthropology of Political Theory: The Islamic Intellectual Field and the Reemergence of Political Theorizing in Turkey
Islamism vs. Islamic Conservatism: Civilizationism as a Constitutive Principle of Conservative Thought in Turkey
Contending Notions of Civilization in Islamic Decolonial Thought in Turkey
The Predicament of Islamic Decoloniality: “The Great East” Project of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
