NAZAN CICEK
Currently working as Associate Professor at Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences
PhD: University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies/ History Department (2001-2005)
MA: Ankara University, Political Science (1998-2000)
BA: Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences/ Political Science and Public Administration Department (1992-1997)
Publications Book:
The Young Ottomans: Turkish Critics of the Eastern Question in the Late Nineteenth Century, I.B.Tauris, London, 2010.
Book Chapters:
“My Dear Child, My Soul, My Life, My Hope”: Mapping the Changing Patterns of Parenting in Early Republican Turkey (1920-1960) through Private Letters from Fathers to Children”, in Petya Bankova et al (eds), Sociocultural Dimensions of Childhood, Prof. Marin Drinov Publishing House of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia 2020.
“Mapping Social Change through Matters of the Heart: Debates on Courtship, Marriage and Divorce in the Early Turkish Republican Era (1923-1950), in Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet (eds), Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period, Brill, Leiden & Boston, 2018.
“Unclaimed Forlorn Monsters”: Perceptions of Youth Crime and the Limits of Juvenile Justice Reform in Turkey, 1979-2005, in William S. Bush and David S. Tanenhaus (eds), Ages of Anxiety: Historical and Transnational Perspectives on Juvenile Justice, New York University Press, New York, 2018.
"The Interplay between Modernization and the Reconstruction of Childhood: Romantic Interpretations of the Child in Early Republican Era Popular Magazines: 1924-1950",
Benjamin C. Fortna (ed), Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and After, Brill, Leiden/Boston, 2015.
“The Eastern Question in Turkish Republican Textbooks: Settling Old Scores with the European and the Ottoman „Other‟”, Lucien J. Frary and Mara Kozelsky (eds), Russian-Ottoman Borderlands: The Eastern Question Reconsidered, Wisconsin University Press, Wisconsin, 2014.
“Mapping the Turkish Republican Notion of Childhood and Juvenile Delinquency: The Story of Children‟s Courts in Turkey (1940-1990)”, Heather Ellis (ed), Juvenile Delinquency and the Limits of the Western Influence, 1850-2000, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2014.
“More History than They Can Consume?: Perception of the Balkan Wars in the Turkish Republican Textbooks (1932-2007)”, Hakan Yavuz and Isa Blumi (eds), War and Nationalism, The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913, Their Sociopolitical Implications, The University of Utah Press, Utah, 2013.
“The Role of Mass Education in Nation-Building in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, 1870-1930”, Laurence Brockliss and Nicola Sheldon (ed), Mass Education and the Limits of State Building, c. 1870-1930, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2012.
“The Battle for British Public Opinion on Turkey and the Eastern Question: Two Documents, 1876 and 1904”, C. M. Amin, B. C. Fortna and E. B. Frierson (eds.), The Modern Middle East, Oxford UP, Oxford, 2006.
Book Reviews:
James H. Meyer, Turks across Empires: Marketing Muslim Identity in the Russian-Ottoman Borderlands, 1856–1914, The American Historical Review, 121:3, 2016.
“Spiritus Roberti, Shaping New Minds and Robert College in Late Ottoman Society (1863-1923), written by Sabev, Orlin (Orhan Salih)”, Turkish Historical Review, 6:2, 2015.
“Şenışık P. (2011), The Transformation of Ottoman Crete: Revolts, Politics and Identity in the Late Nineteenth Century”, Diplomacy & Statecraft, 24:3, 2013.
Articles:
“Bulgarian Horrors Revisited: the Many-Layered Manifestations of the Orientalist Discourse in Victorian Political Construction of the External, Intimate and Internal Other”, Belleten, 81 (291), 2017.
“Hayal Edilmiş Coğrafyada Ezber Bozan Bir İngiliz Oryantalist: David Urquhart, Osmanlı Modernleşmesi, Temenna ve Türk Hamamı”, Toplum ve Bilim, 130, 2014.
“Erken Cumhuriyet Döneminde Modern Çocukluk Nosyonunun Görünümleri Üzerine Bir Analiz”, Mülkiye Dergisi, 36:4, Kış 2012.
“Talihsiz Çerkeslere İngiliz Peksimeti”: İngiliz Arşiv Belgelerinde Büyük Çerkes Göçü (Şubat 1864-Mayıs 1865), SBF Dergisi, 64 (1), Ocak-Mart 2009.
“Teaching the Nation to be Civilized: The Ego Ideal of the Turkish Founding Elite and the Magazine Halk (The Populace) 1929-1931”, Académie Des Sciences De Bulgarie Instıtut D’ Études Balkaniques Études Balkaniques, No: 4, 2008.
“The Young Ottomans‟ Perception of Financial Crisis and External Borrowing Policy of the Ottoman Empire”, Académie Des Sciences De Bulgarie Instıtut D’ Études Balkaniques Études Balkaniques, No: 3, 2008.
“The Turkish Response to the Bulgarian Horrors: A Study in English Turcophobia”, Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 42, No: 1, January 2006.
Conference Organizations:
Member of the organization committee for the international congress “Centennial of the Young Turk Revolution 1908-2008” hosted by the Faculty of Political Sciences and held in May 2008.
Head of the organization committee in Turkey for the “Exploring Cultural Perspectives 2008” congress hosted by the Faculty of Political Sciences in cooperation with the International Cultural Research Network held in Antalya, in June 2008.
“My Dear Child, My Soul, My Life, My Hope: Mapping the Changing Patterns of Parenting in Early Republican Turkey through Private Letters from Parents to Children”, International Conference on Socio-cultural Dimensions of Childhood, 26-28 October, 2018, Sofia, Bulgaria.
“Geç Dönem Osmanlı Düşünce İkliminin Aile, Terbiye ve Devlet Kavşağında Çocukluğu Yeniden Keşfi ve Cumhuriyete Devreden Miras”, Akdeniz University, International Symposium on the History of Childhood in the Ottoman Empire, 6-7 May, Antalya, Turkey, 2016.
"Mapping Social Change through Matters of the Heart: Debates on Courtship, Marriage and Divorce in the late Ottoman and early Republican Era", Middle East Technical University, Middle Eastern Societies (1918-1939): Challenges, Changes and Transitions Conference, 15-17 October, Ankara, Turkey, 2015.
“Juvenile Justice Alla Turca: Perception and Treatment of Juvenile Delinquency in the Turkish Republic (1923-2005)”, Oxford University, Centre for the History of Childhood, Juvenile Offenders Day Conference, 4 July, Oxford, England, 2015.
“Saving the Honour of the Sultan”: Criticisms of the Young Ottomans on the Cretan Affair of 1866-1869, University of Basel, Das Seminar für Nahoststudien der Universität Basel lädt ein zum Vortrag von, 21 May, Basel, Switzerland, 2015.
“Childhood at a Time of Turmoil: Conceptions of Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Republican Turkey”, British Academy, Ankara History of Childhood Workshop, 25-26 March, Ankara, Turkey, 2011.
“The Delinquent Child, Children‟s Courts and the Conception of Childhood in Turkey (1940-1980)”, Humboldt University, Centre for British Studies, Juvenile Delinquency in the 19th and 20th Centuries: East-West Comparisons Workshop, Berlin, Germany, 2011.
“Childhood as a Social Construct in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic: Towards Building a New Body of Knowledge on the History of Childhood in Turkey”, School of Oriental and African Studies, Modern Turkish Studies Programme, London Middle East Institute at SOAS, Seminars on Turkey, Autumn Term 2008, 5 December 2008.
“How Childish were the Otoman/Turkish Children? Childhood as a Social Construct in the Late Nineteenth Century Otoman Empire and Early Republican Era”, ICRN Exploring
Cultural Perspectives Conference, Antalya, Turkey, 11-15 June 2008.
“Teaching the Nation to be Civilised: The Magazine Halk”, Cultural Politics and Political Cultures 1850-1950 Workshop, Sofia, Bulgaria, 5-7 July 2007.
“Creating a Nation and Its Children: Children‟s Magazines in Turkey at the Foundation of the Republic”, BRISMES Conference, Birmingham, England, 23-26 July 2006.
“A Study in English Turcophobia”, BRISMES Conference, Durham, England, 12-16 September 2005.
“A British Family in the Turkish Bath: The Urquharts”,The Influence of Turkish Culture Conference, Ankara, Turkey, 2005.
Projects:
Balkanlar Coğrafyasında Post Emperyal Osmanlı Sonrası Ulus ve Ulus Devlet İnşası Süreçlerinde İzlenen Strateji ve Müslüman Türk Nüfus Unsurunun Araçsallaştırılma Biçimleri 93 Harbinden İkinci Dünya Savaşına Balkan Devletlerinde Müslüman Türk Nüfusa İlişkin Bir İnceleme ve Analiz Denemesi, Türk Tarih Kurumu, 2011-2015.
Geç Dönem Osmanlı ve Erken Dönem Cumhuriyet‟te İnşa Edilen Toplumsal Cinsiyet Kategorilerinin Normallik İdeallik ve Anormallik/ Ötekilik Kategorileri Üzerinden Analizi, Ankara Üniversitesi, BAP, 2010-2012.
Main Area of Interest: Social, cultural and political history of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, exclusively interested in the parameters of the transformation of the value systems as well as the identity formation strategies in the Ottoman and Turkish Republican Muslim societies.
