Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
CUNY Graduate Center
Department of Anthropology
365 5th Ave
New York
NY
10034
United States
ABOUT
Cihan Tekay is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she also received her MA and MPhil in Anthropology. She is writing her dissertation on the political economy of electrification in the Ottoman Empire, where she examines the expansion of Europe's energy industry and the emergence of electrical consumers in Istanbul. To understand this process, she conducted research in financial, industrial, state and diplomatic archives in Turkey, Germany, France and Belgium.
More broadly, she is interested in understanding the effects of capitalism on people's relationships to each other and to their environment globally. Her research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council's IDRF program, as well as by the Doctoral Student Research Grant and Provost's Award programs at the Graduate Center.
Previously, she did MA-level research on the sociology of women's factory labor and gendered politics of unionization at Bogazici University in Turkey. She earned her BA in Art History from Hampshire College. Cihan has experience teaching courses in Anthropology, Sociology, Gender Studies and Political Economy. She has been a co-editor of Jadaliyya's Turkey section since 2013.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Banking & Finance
Energy Studies
Environment
Globalization
Labor History
Modernization
Nationalism
Ottoman Studies
Political Economy
Technology
Transnationalism
Turkish Studies
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Europe
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Specialties
Infrastructure, Modernization, Electricity, Ottoman Empire, Turkey
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (fluent)
French (advanced)
Ottoman (advanced)
German (intermediate)
Education
MA
| 2020
| Anthropology
| The Graduate Center, CUNY
MPhil
| 2020
| Anthropology
| The Graduate Center, CUNY
BA
| 2008
| Art History
| Hampshire College
Abstracts
Electrifying the Nation-State: Generating Consent in Republican Turkey
Between the Grid and the Market: Electrification of Istanbul on the Eve of World War I
The Nationality of the Company: Sequestration and Economic Nationalism between Europe and the Ottoman Empire Post-World War I
