Alev Çınar
Visiting Professor

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T-367Phone:
0 312 290 12 66E-mail:
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Alev Çınar is Professor of Political Science at Bilkent University,Turkey. She received her MA in Sociology from Bogazici University, PhD
in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and completed
a postdoctoral fellowship in urban studies at the International Center
for Advanced Studies, New York University, and a second one in women’s
studies at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, University
of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has also taught at the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst as a Ford Associate and at Bryn Mawr College as
a Fulbright Visiting Specialist. Her current research interests include
the intellectual foundations of politics; current Islamic political
thought in Turkey; political Islam; state, nation, and citizen building;
gender and patriarchal statehood; formation of the national subject in
relation to ethnicity, gender, religion (Islam), class; nation-building,
modernity, secularism, and Islam in Turkey; subject formation; urban
space, public culture, and the media as instruments of nation building.
She is the author of Modernity, Islam and Secularism in Turkey: Bodies
Places and Time (2005); co-editor of Urban Imaginaries: Locating the
Modern City (2007), and of Visualizing Secularism and Religion: Egypt,
Lebanon, Turkey, India (2012). Her articles have appeared in journals
such as Comparative Studies in Society and History; International
Journal of Middle East Studies; Theory, Culture and Society; Theory &
Society; and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Çınar has
received various awards and grants from a number of institutions,
including Fulbright, Ford Foundation, Social Science Research Council,
Mellon Foundation, United States Institute of Peace, Institute for
Advanced Study membership, Turkish Tubitak Research Grant, a
Distinguished Teacher Award from Bilkent University, and the Boğaziçi
University, Üstün Ergüder Research Award in Political Science.