Nadir Ozbek - Boğaziçi Üniversitesi

NADİR ÖZBEK
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
ATATÜRK INSTITUTE FOR MODERN TURKISH HISTORY
BOĞAZİÇİ UNIVERSITY
34342, BEBEK - İSTANBUL
E-Mail: [email protected]
Tel: 90-212-359 7607 (work)
Mobile: 0542 240 3422
Fax: 90-212-265 8003 (work)
EDUCATION
Ph.D., 2001, Binghamton University, New York-USA.
Dissertation: “The Politics of Welfare: Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Legitimacy in the
Ottoman Empire, 1876-1918,”
MA, 1994, History Department, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul-Turkey.
Master Thesis: “Abdurresid Ibrahim (1857-1944), The Life and Thought of a Muslim Activist”
BS, 1991, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul-TurkeyTurkey.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, ACADEMIC-WORK EXPERIENCE
2002-present: Asisstant Director, The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History,
Boğaziçi University.
2005-present: Associate Professor, The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History,
Boğaziçi University.
2001-2005: Assistant Professor, The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History,
Boğaziçi University.
2004-present: Member, Editorial Board, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi,
2004-2006: Member, Editorial Board, New Perspectives on Turkey, an academic journal of
social science and history
2001-2004: Coordinating Editor, New Perspectives on Turkey, an academic journal of social
science and history.
2000-2001: Lecturer, Department of History, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New
York, USA.
1996-2000: Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Binghamton University,
Binghamton, New York, USA.
1994-1996: Research Assistant, The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History,
Boğaziçi University
1993-1994: Coordinator, Information and Documentation Center, History Foundation,
İstanbul-Turkey.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
- Cumhuriyet Türkiyesi'nde Sosyal Güvenlik ve Sosyal Politikalar. İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı / Emeklilik
Gözetim Merkezi, 2006.
- Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda Sosyal Devlet, Siyaset,İktidar ve Meşruiyet, 1876-1914, İstanbul: İletişim
Yayınları, 2002. (2nd edition 2004, 3rd edition 2008)
Edited Books:
Jandarma ve Polis: Fransa ve Osmanlı Tarih Yazımına Çapraz Bakışlar. İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt
Yayınları, (yayımlanacak), (Noemi Levy, Nadir Özbek, and Alexandre Toumarkine, eds.)
Articles in English:
- "'Beggars' and 'Vagrants' in State Policy and Public Discourse During the Late Ottoman
Empire: 1876-1914." Middle Eastern Studies (forthcoming).
- "The Politics of Modern Welfare Institutions in the Late Ottoman Empire (1876-1909)."
International Journal of Turcologia 3, no. 5 (2008): 42-62.
- "Policing the Countryside: Gendarmes of the Late-Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire
(1876-1908)." International Journal of Middle East Studies 40, no. 1 (2008): 47-67.
- "Defining the Public Sphere during the Late Ottoman Empire: War, Mass Mobilization and
the Young Turk Regime (1908-18)." Middle Eastern Studies 43, no. 5 (2007): 795-809.
- "Philanthropic Activity, Ottoman Patriotism and the Hamidian Regime, 1876-1909."
International Journal of Middle East Studies 37, no. 1 (2005): 59-81.
- "Imperial Gifts and Sultanic Legitimation During the Reign of Sultan Abdulhamid II, 18761909" In Poverty and Charity in the Middle Eastern Contexts, edited by Mine Ener, Amy Singer
and Michael Bonner: State University of New York Press, New York, 2003.
- "From Asianism to Pan-Turkism: The Activities of Abdürreşid İbrahim in the Young Turk
Era" in The Rising Sun and the Turkish Crescent-New Perspectives on the History of Japanese Turkish
Relations, edited by Selçuk Esenbel & Inaba Chiharu: Boğaziçi University Press, 2003,
İstanbul: 86-104.
- "The Bashkir Nationality Question and Zeki Velidi Togan in the Russian Revolution and
the Civil War, 1917-1921," Türklük Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 11 (2002): 161-80.
- “The Politics of Poor Relief in the Late Ottoman Empire: 1876-1914,” New Perspectives on
Turkey, n.21, Fall 1999, pp.1-33.
- with Donald Quataert "The Eregli-Zonguldak Coal Mines: A Catalogue of Archival
Documents," Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, v.23, n.1, Spring 1999, pp.55-67. [A Turkish
translation is in Tarih ve Toplum, v.31, n.181, January 1999, pp.11-18].
Articles in Turkish:
- "İkinci Meşrutiyeti Hazırlayan Koşullar: Rumeli'de Vergi Tahsilatı ve Jandarma." Toplumsal
Tarih, no.183(2009): 46:50.
- "Tarihyazıcılığında Güvenlik Kurum ve Pratiklerine İlişkin Bir Değerlendirme." In Asayiş:
Fransız ve Türk Tarihyazımına Çapraz Bakışlar, edited by Noemi Levy, Nadir Özbek and
Alexandre Toumarkine, x-x. İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, (yayımlanacak).
- "Osmanlı Taşrasında Denetim: Son Dönem Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda Jandarma (18761908)." In Tarihsel Perspektiften Türkiye'de Güvenlik Siyaseti, Ordu ve Devlet, edited by Evren Balta
and İsmet Akça, x-x. İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, (yayımlanacak).
- "Refah Devletinin Krizi, Yeni Sosyal Politika Önerileri ve 'Temel Gelir' Üzerine
Düşünceler." Mesele Kitap Dergisi, no. 11 (2007): 43-46.
"İmparatorluk Tartışmalarında Radikal Bir Açılım." Virgül, no. 101 (2006): 14-16.
- "Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda İç Güvenlik, Siyaset ve Devlet, 1876-1909." Türklük
Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 16 (2004): 59-95.
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- "Modernite, Tarih ve İdeoloji: İkinci Abdülhamid Dönemi Tarihçiliği Üzerine Bir
Değerlendirme." Türkiye Araştırmaları Literatür Dergisi, no. 3 (2004): 71-90.
- "Alternatif Tarih Tahayyülleri: Siyaset, İdeoloji ve Osmanlı-Türkiye Tarihi." Toplum ve Bilim,
no. 98 (2003): 234-54.
- "Kemalist Rejim ve Popülizmin Sınırları: Büyük Buhran ve Buğday Alım Politikaları, 19321937", Toplum ve Bilim, n.96 (Bahar 2003)
- “Osmanlı'dan Günümüze Türkiye'de Sosyal Devlet," Toplum ve Bilim, n.92 (Bahar 2002): 733.
- "İkinci Meşrutiyet İstanbul'unda Tatar İslamcıları," Müteferrika, no.21, Yaz 2002, pp.45-67.
- "Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda 'Sosyal Yardım' Uygulamaları, 1839-1918," Toplum ve Bilim, Kış
1999/2000, pp.111-132.
- “Vakıf Tarihi Çalışmaları Üzerine Notlar,” Tarih ve Toplum, v.32, n.187, July 1999, pp.60-62.
“İkinci Meşrutiyet İstanbul’unda Serseriler ve Dilenciler,” Toplumsal Tarih, v.11, n.64, April
1999, pp.34-43.
- “İkinci Abdülhamid ve Kimsesiz Çocuklar: Darülhayr-i Ali,” Tarih ve Toplum, v.31, n.182,
February 1999, pp.11-20.
- “Abdürreşid İbrahim,” Yaşamları ve Yapıtlarıyla Osmanlılar Ansiklopedisi, Yapı Kredi Yayınları,
1999, pp. 74-75.
- “Köylü Aşar Yükünden Kurtuldu,” Cumhuriyetin 57 Yılı, cilt 1, 1923-1953, Yapı Kredi
Yayınları, İstanbul, 1998, p.46.
- “Doksan Yıllık Bir Hayır Kurumu: Topkapı Fukaraperver Cemiyeti,” Tarih ve Toplum, v.30,
n.180, Aralık 1998, pp.4-10.
- "Zeki Velidi Togan ve 'Türk Tarih Tezi'," Toplumsal Tarih, v.8, n.45, Eylül 1997, pp.15-23.
- "Zeki Velidi Togan ve Milliyetler Sorunu: Küçük Baskurdistan'dan Büyük Türkistan'a,"
Toplumsal Tarih, v.8, n.44, August 1997, pp.15-23.
- “Rus Dış Politikasında Yeni Yönelimler ve Türk Cumhuriyetleri", Avrasya Dosyası, v.3, n.4,
Kış 1996, pp.7-26.
- "Abdürreşid İbrahim ve İkinci Meşrutiyet Yılları: Tearüf-i Müslimin ve İslam Dünyası
Dergileri", Toplumsal Tarih, v.4, n.20, August 1995, pp.18-23.
- "Abdürreşid İbrahim: İslamcı Bir Eylem Adamı," Toplumsal Tarih, v.4, n.19, July 1995, pp.712.
- “Hayat Tarih Mecmuası,” Tarih ve Toplum, n.103, July 1991, pp.53-56.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS
- “Jön Türk Devrimini Hazırlayan Koşullar: Rumeli’de Vergi Tahsilatı ve Asakir-i Zabtiye,”
Meşrutiyet’in 100. Yıldönümü ve Makedonya, Makedonya Bilimler ve Sanatlar Akademisi,
17-21 Aralık 2008, Üsküp, Makedonya.
- “Osmanlı’dan Günümüze Türkiye’de Dilenciliğin Toplumsal Algılanışı” Bir Kent Sorunu:
Dilencilik, Sorunlar ve Çözüm Yolları, İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Zabıta Daire
Başkanlığı, 18-19 Ekim 2008, İstanbul.
- “Internal Security and the Ottoman Provincial Police Organization (1876-1908),”
International Conference on New Approaches to the Nineteenth Century Middle East and
Balkans,” January 12-13, 2007, Chiba University, Tokyo, Japan.
- “The Peasants and the Ottoman Gendarmerie: Dispute Resolution in the Rural Context,
1876-1909,” 10th International Congress of Economic and Social History of Turkey,
September 28-October 1 2005, Venice-Italy.
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- “Governing the Countryside: Gendarmerie in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire,”
Social Politics in the Middle East: A Symposium in Honor of the Late Historian, Mine Ener,
The Middle East Center-University of Pennsylvania, 9-1 April 2004.
- “Defining the Public Sphere in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1876-1918,” Central Eurasian
Studies Society Fourth Annual Conference, October 2-5, 2003, Cambridge-Massachusetts,
USA.
- Comments on the paper "Limits to Globalization: Welfare States and the World Economy"
presented by Stephan Leibfried (University of Bremen, Germany) in "Workshop on
Economic Reform, New Politics and Social Justice", June 6-7 2003, Bogaziçi University,
Istanbul-Turkey, 6-7 June 2003
- "Governing the 'new poverty': Restructuring the Welfare System in Turkey" paper
presented at the workshop on "The Socio-economic Dimensions of Poverty in West Asia
and North Africa", Middle East Awards for Population and Social Science (MEWARDS),
Rabat-Morocco, 13-15 May 2003.
- Voluntary Initiative, Philanthropic Publics, and the Hamidian Regime, 1876-1908”,
Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies. International Institute-University of Michigan,
Cultural Politics Workshop, İstanbul, Turkey, May 27-June 1, 2001.
- Ottoman Labor History Workshop at Kevorkian Center of NYU, New York-USA, 24
March 2001.
- “The Politics of Pediatrics: The Imperial Hospital for Children, 1899-1909”, Middle East
Studies Association, 2000 Annual Meeting, November 16-19 2000, Orlando, FL-USA
- “Imperial Gifts and Sultanic Legitimation During the Reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II, 18761909”, Poverty and Philanthropy, University of Michigan, 4-7 May 2000, Ann Arbor, MIUSA.
- “The State and the Poor: Beggars and Vagrants in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1876-1914”,
Middle East Studies Association, 1999 Annual Meeting, November 20-22 1999, Washington,
D.C-USA.
- “From Pan-Turkism to Asianism: The Activities of Abdurresid Ibrahim in the Young Turk
Period”, Bogazici University Symposium on the History of Japanese-Turkish Relations, October 7-9,
1998, İstanbul/Turkey.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
- 2005: Cumhuriyet Türkiye’sinde Sosyal Güvenlik ve Sosyal Politikalar.
Destekleyen Kurum: Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı; Emeklilik Gözetim
Merkezi.
Araştırma Ekibi: Evren Dinçer, Nurçin İleri, Barış Alp Özden, Ali Sipahi.
Proje Ürünü: Cumhuriyet Türkiyesi'nde Sosyal Güvenlik ve Sosyal Politikalar. İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı
/ Emeklilik Gözetim Merkezi, 2006.
- 2005-2006: Osmanlı’dan Günümüze Türkiye’de Suç ve Suçun Toplumsal
Algılanışında Değişim.
Destekleyen Kurum: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Bilimsel Araştırma Projeleri
Proje Ürünü: "Policing the Countryside: Gendarmes of the Late-Nineteenth-Century
Ottoman Empire (1876-1908)." International Journal of Middle East Studies 40, no. 1 (2008): 4767.
- 2003-2004: Son Dönem Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda Kır, Güvenlik ve Modern
Devletin Oluşumu, 1839-1918.
Destekleyen Kurum: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Bilimsel Araştırma Projeleri
Proje Ürünü: Ulusual Makale: "Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda İç Güvenlik, Siyaset ve Devlet,
1876-1909." Türklük Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 16 (2004): 59-95.
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- 2001-2002: Son Dönem Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda Yoksulluk, Gönüllü Yardım
Faaliyetleri ve Kamusal Alan, 1876-1908.
Destekleyen Kurum: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Bilimsel Araştırma Projeleri
Proje Ürünü: Ulusal Kitap: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda Sosyal Devlet, Siyaset,İktidar ve
Meşruiyet, 1876-1914, İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2002. (2. baskı 2004)
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
- “2005 Yılı Öğretimde Üstün Başarı Ödülü”, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi.
- American Research Institute in Turkey Research Fellowship, 2003-2004: “Policing the
Countryside: The Gendarmerie in the 19th Century Ottoman Empire.”
- Awards for the European and American Young Scholars' Summer Institute 2001/2002:
Public Spheres and Muslim Identities
Berlin (Germany), July 15, 2001 to July 28, 2001 and
Dartmouth College (USA), August 4, 2002 to August 17, 2002.
Sponsored by The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation/ the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin,
the Social Science Research Council (New York) and the institutes for advanced studies in
Princeton (USA), Research Triangle Park (USA), Stanford (USA), Uppsala (S), and
Wassenaar (NL).
- The Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research, Binghamton University-State
University of New York, 2000.
- The Graduate School- Binghamton University, Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1999-2000.
- History Department-Binghamton University, Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1998-1999.
- History Department-Binghamton University, Teaching Assistantships, 1996-1998
COURSE TAUGHT
COURSES TAUGHT AT BOĞAZİÇİ UNIVERSITY:
Graduate Seminars:
ATA 501: State Formation, Anthropological Perspectives: The Late Ottoman Empire (Fall
2008)
ATA 501: History, Modernity, Ideology: Critical Perspectives on History Writing in Turkey
(Spring 2008)
ATA 581: Selected Topics in Social Theory and History: Crime, Justice and the Institutions
of Coercion in Modern Society (Fall 2007)
ATA 599: Topics in Modern European History: Crisis of Modernity, Fascism, and
Revolutionary Ideologies in Bourgeois Europe (Spring 2007)
ATA 501: Methods and Approaches in Turkish History (Spring 2006)
ATA 581: Theories of Empire and Imperialism after the “Imperial Turn” (Fall 2005, Fall
2006)
ATA 594: State and Society in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire (Spring 2005)
ATA 684: Sources and Methods in Ottoman History (Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Spring
2004)
ATA 661: Topics on the Late Ottoman Era (Fall 2004, Fall 2006)
ATA 581: Power and Rule in Modern Society (Spring 2004)
ATA 681: Topics in the Economic and Social History of the Late Ottoman Era (Fall 2003)
ATA 507: Historiography (Fall 2003, Fall 2002)
ATA 612: Reading in State Theory and History (Spring 2003)
ATA 612: Readings in Theory and History: Civil Society and Public Spheres, (Spring 2002)
ATA 611: Social Welfare and Politics in History (Fall 2001)
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Undergraduate Courses:
HIST 415: Seminar in Ottoman History-I/State and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire,
1876-1909 (Fall 2002, Fall 2001)
HIST 416: Seminar in Ottoman History-II/Social History of the Second Constitutional
Period, 1908-1918 (Spring 2003, Spring 2002)
GIAH 106: World History (Spring 2005, Spring 2004)
HTR 311: History of Turkish Republic I (Summer 2007, Summer 2006, Summer 2005,
Summer 2004, Summer 2003, Summer 2002)
HTR 312: History of Turkish Republic II (Summer 2007, Summer 2006, Summer 2005)
COURSES TAUGHT AT KOÇ UNIVERSITY:
HIST 215: History of Modern Europe (Spring 2009)
HIST 401: Contemporary World History, 1900-1939 (Summer 2008)
COURSES TAUGHT AT BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY:
HIST 121: The Middle East Since 1453 (Spring 2001)
HIST 275: The Twentieth Century Middle East (Fall 2000)
MASTERS THESES SUPERVISED
2008:
- Edip Gölbaşı (2008) The Yezidis and the Ottoman State: Modern Power, Military Conscription, and
Conversion Policies, 1830-1909.
- Selim Özgen (2008) The “Ballast” of Istanbul: A Critique of the Spatial Reorganization of Industrial
Production in Gebze.
- Başak Deniz Özdağan (2008) Experiences of September 12 Coup d’état in Turkish Novels of 1980s.
- Didem Türkoğlu (2008) Snapshots of Popular Turkish Nationalism: Neo-Kemalism, Bestsellers and
Facebook.
2007:
- Mehmet Evren Dinçer (2007) The Transformation of an Industrial Location: Dilovasi from 1990s to
Present.
- İzi Karakaş (2007) An Analysis of Policies Towards the Born Disabled, Victims of Work Accidents
and Natural Disasters During the Hamidian Era (1876-1909) (History Department)
2006:
- Ceren Ilıkan (2006) Tuberculosis, Medicine and Politics: Public Health in the Early Republican
Turkey.
- Bilgen Komut (2006) A Reading Practice as the Consumption of Leisure Time: Hayat Magazine
1980-1986.
2005:
- Seçil Yılmaz (2005) Visualization of Culture, History and Memory in Turkey: Museum Politics in the
Post-1980s.
- İlker Cörüt (2005) Social Rationality of Lower-Class Criminal Practices in the Late Nineteenth
Century İstanbul.
- Murat Altun (2005) The Photocopied 1990s: Youth, Culture, and Fanzines.
- Ohannes Kılıçdağı (2005) The Bourgeois Transformation and Ottomanism Among Anatolian
Armenians After the 1908 Revolution.
- Nurtaç Numan (2005) The Emirs of Mecca and the Ottoman Government of Hijaz, 1840-1908
(History Deparment).
2004:
- Sinem Özer (2004) Turkey's Experience with Microcredit: The New Governmental Strategy.
- Laden Yurttagüler (2004) Social Policies on Female Body in Turkey in the 1930s.
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- Nilay Özok (2004) “Social Development” as a Governmental Strategy in the Southeastern Anatolia
Project (GAP).
- Zeynep Şahin (2004) Philanthropic Women’s NGOs as a Way of Participation in the Public Sphere:
A Case of Women’s Education and the Culture Foundation.
- Tuğba Tekerek (2004) Discourses on the Economic Crises of 1979 and 2001 from a Comparative
Perspective.
- Can Nacar (2004) Working Class in Turkey During World War II Period: Between Social Policies
and Everyday Experiences.
- Burak Gürel (2004) Political Mobilization in Turkey in the 1970s: The Case of the Kahramanmaraş
Incidents.
- Mehmet Yerçil (2004) European Interest in Eskisehir and Its Meerschaum Industry in the Nineteenth
Century.
- İbrahim Halil Kalkan (2004) Medicine and Politics in the Late Ottoman Empire (1876-1909).
2003:
- Selen Göbelez (2003) The History of Social Services in Republican Turkey: Social Change,
Professionalism and Politics.
- Mehmet Oytun Yılmaz (2003) The 1897 Greko-Ottoman War (History Department)
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