Curriculum Vitae
Name Görkem Akgöz
Place of Birth Ankara, Turkey Date of Birth 22 May 1980
University Address Hacettepe University Department of Sociology Beytepe Campus, Ankara Office phone 00 90 312 2978425
E-mail gorkemakgoz@yahoo.com
Education
2007-2012 Ph.D., University of Amsterdam
Dissertation Title: Many Voices of a Turkish State Factory: Working at Bakırköy Cloth Factory, 1932-1950
2005-2007 Ph.D. Candidate, SUNY at Binghamton
Demonstration of Competence Examination Fields:
Social History, Labor Historiography, Philosophy of History, Political Economy of Development
2004-2005 M.A., SUNY at Binghamton Major: Sociology
1998-2003 B.A., Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Major: Sociology, High Honors
1991-1998 Ankara Atatürk Anatolian High School (AAAL)
Teaching Experience
Lecturer Hacettepe University, Department of Sociology (September 2012-present) BA-Module, Introduction to Sociology
BA-Module, Comparative Historical Sociology BA-Module, Social Movements
BA-Module Social and Cultural History BA-Module History of Science
Lecturer, Summer Session, SUNY-Binghamton (Summer 2006 and 2007) BA-Module, Social Inequality
Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, SUNY-Binghamton (Spring 2005) BA-Module, Social Problems in the US
Research Experience
Research Assistant at Hacettepe University, Department of Sociology, Ankara, Turkey (January 2010-present)
Research Fellow at the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (September 2007-January 2010)
Research Assistant at the Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (2002-2003)
UNDP Project on Poverty Alleviation in Turkey, Middle East Technical University, Department of Sociology (2002-2003), Project supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sencer AyataWorld Health Organization Project on Health Reform in Turkey, Middle East Technical
University, Department of Sociology, (2002-2003)
Awards, Scholarships and Prizes
British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship, “Back into the factory: writing theory and practice of the industrial workplace into 21st century history and social theory” (March 2015-March 2017)
Turkish Social Science Association, 2011-2013 Award in Book and Article Category HSP Huygens Ph.D. Scholarship (September 2007-September 2009)
International Alternative Culture Center, Alternative Culture Beyond Borders Project Travel Fellowship (August 2007-August 2010)
The Turkish Higher Education Board Scholarship for Master and Ph.D. in the US (January 2004-December 2007)
Central European University Summer School Travel Fellowship (Summer 2006) SUNY-Binghamton Research Foundation Travel Grant (2006)
Books
20.Yüzyıl Türkiye’sine Fabrikalardan Bakmak (Looking at 20th Century Turkey from the Factories). Ed. Vol. (In Progress)
Many Voices of a Turkish State University: Working at Bakırköy Cloth Factory, 1932-1950. Ph.D. Thesis. (Private/Limited Publication) Ankara, 2012.
Publications in Peer-Reviewed Academic Journals
“Kapitalizmin Krizine Toplumsal Cinsiyet Perspektifinden Bakmak: Analitik bir Çerçeve Önerisi” (Trans. Looking at the Crisis of capitalism From Gender Perspective: A Suggestion for an Analytical Framework) (co-authored with Ecehan Balta) Hacettepe Üniversitesi Sosyolojik Araştırmalar E-Dergisi (2015)
(http://www.sdergi.hacettepe.edu.tr/makaleler/Kapitalizmin_Krizine_Toplumsal_Cinsiy et_Perspektifinden_Bakmak.pdf)
"İşçiler Greve Karşı: 1947 Sendikacılığının İlk Yıllarında Grev Tartışmaları" (Trans. Workers against Strike: Debates on the Right to Strike in the Early Years of the 1947 Trade Unionism) Mülkiye Dergisi (2014) 38 (4): 121-158.
“Sınıfın Söylemsel Kuruluşu: 1947 Sendikacılığının İlk Yıllarında Milliyetçi ve Komünist Söylemler” (Trans. The Discursive Construction of Class: Nationalist and Anti-Communist Discourses in the First Years of 1947 Trade Union Movement), Praksis (2014) 35-36: 61-82.
Praksis 34 (2014). 21. Yüzyılda Direnişler” (Trans. Resistance in 21st Century). (Issue
Editor)
Publications in Edited Books
“Petitioning as Industrial Bargaining in a Turkish State Factory: The Changing Nature of Petitioning in an Early Republican State Factory,” in On the Road to Global Labour History, ed. by Karl Heinz Roth (upcoming).
“İşçi Sınıfı Tarihyazımında İşyeri ve Çalışma Deneyiminin Yeri: Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi Fabrikalarının Kapısından Girmek” (The Role of Workplace Experience in Working-Class Historiography: Entering the Factories of the Early Republican Period), in Türkiye İşçi Sınıfı Tarihi 1839-2014: Yeni Yaklaşimlar, Yeni Alanlar,Yeni Sorunlar (Working Class History in Turkey 1839-2014: New Approaches, New Areas, New Questions) ed. by Y. Doğan Çetinkaya and Mehmet Alkan, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, İstanbul: 2015.
Presentations and Lectures at International Platforms
Co-organizer (with Dr. Nicola Pizzolato) of the panel “Factory History: Perspectives from Turkey,” as part of the Interdisciplinary Labour Studies Seminar at Middlesex University, London, 7 June, 2016.
“Akademik Özgürlükler Meselesinde Uzakları Yakın Eden Benzerlikler: ‘Milli ve Yerel’ Kıskacında Hindistan ve Türkiye,” (“Similarities That Bridge the Distance: India and Turkey Trapped in the ‘National and Locial’”) Orta Doğu Öğreti Elemanları Derneği tarafından düzenlenen “Üniversite ve Akademik Özgürlükler: Türkiye Nereye?” Paneli (“Universities and Academic Freedom: Whither Turkey?” panel organized by Association of Middle East Technical University Academic Staff ), ODTÜ, Ankara, 25 May 2016. Co-organizer (with Dr. Lars K. Christensen) of the panel “Factory History: Contesting Identity and Constructing Politics on the Shop Floor,” European Social Science History Conference, Valencia, 30 March, 2016.
“Writing from the Shop Floor: Workers’ Perceptions and Representation of the Factory as a Workplace in Turkish Trade Union Press,” European Social Science History Conference, Valencia, 30 March, 2016.
Co-organizer (with Dr. Nicola Pizzolato) of the panel series “Factory Level Analysis: A Methodological Exploration” at the 1st European Labour History Conference, Turin,
14-16 Dec. 2015. (Four panels: “The Transformation of the Factory”, “Factory Workers and the State,” “The Production of Politics and the Politics of Production on the Shop Floor,” “Labour relations and the production process.”)
“Back into the Factory: Writing Theory and Practice of the Industrial Workplace into 21st
Century History and Social Theory,” 1st European Labour History Conference, Turin, 15
Dec. 2015.
“Back To The Factory: Theory And Practice Of The Industrial Workplace At Bakırköy”, Middlesex University, 12 May 2015.
“Nationalism and Working-Class Politics in Early Republican Turkey”, WOCMES, METU, Ankara, 18-22 August 2014.
“The Discursive Formation of the ‘Turkish Worker’: Nationalism and Working-Class Politics in Early Republican Turkey”, European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, 23-26 April 2014.
"Erken Cumhuriyet’in Fabrikaları ve İşçileri: Bakırköy Bez Fabrikası Örneğinde Sınıflaşma Pratiği ve Söylemi, 1932-1950", History Foundation Ankara Discussions Series, Ankara, 18 May 2012.
Convenor of the Panel “Within the ‘Worlds of Labour’: Why and How to Write Factory History”, European Social Science History Conference, Glasgow, 11-14 April 2012. “Many Voices of a Republican Factory: Alternative Visions and Discourses on Trade Unionism in Early Republican Turkey”, European Social Science History Conference, Glasgow, 13 April 2012.
“The Dual Labor Policy and the Fear of Strikes in the Late 1940s in Turkey”, International Conference on Strikes and Social Conflicts on the XX Century, Lisbon, 17 March 2011. “Diverging Paths of the Early Trade Union Movement in Turkey: Political Possibilities, Discursive Strategies”, Historical Materialism: Crisis and Critique, 7th Annual Conference,
SOAS & ULU, London, 14 November 2010.
“Between the Borders of Labor History and Cultural History: Working-Class Formation in Early Republican Turkey”, Inaugural Conference of the International Society for Cultural History, Ghent University, Ghent, 27-31 August 2008.
Participant in “Transnational Labour, Transnational Methods Summer Institute”, University of Toronto, Toronto, 8-14 June 2008.
“Conceptualizing the Emergence of Working-Class as a Forming and Formative Process: The Case of Turkey in the 1930s and 40s”, Rethinking Labour: Labour, Affect and Material Culture Conference, Dublin, 20 April 2008.
“Cultural Representations of Working-Class Formation in Turkey”, European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, 27 February 2008.
“Markopaşa: An Example of Turkish Samizdat”, From Samizdat to Blogging: Globalization and New Forms of Political Expression, Budapest, 21 February 2008.
“Historiography as a Political Enterprise: Rethinking Histories of Labor”, Returns of Marxism, Seminar series at the International Institute for Research and Education, Amsterdam, 5 February 2008.
“Contesting Modernities: History, Historiography and the Novel in the Twentieth Century Turkey”, Alternative Culture Beyond Borders, St. Petersburg, 15 August 2007. “Rethinking Histories of Labor”, Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 17 March 2007.
“Primitive Accumulation and Marxist Historiography”, Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 24 February 2006.
“The Other Side of the Hegemonic Transition: The Case of the Anti-Corn Law League in Britain”, Binghamton University Graduate Student Conference on Historical Social
Academic Service (e.g. member of symposium organizing committee, etc):
Co-organizer-Hacettepe University, Department of Sociology, Sociology Seminars, 2011.
Co-organizer-Binghamton University Graduate Student Conference on Historical Social Science, Binghamton, NY, 1 May 2005.
Membership and Affiliations
European Social Science History Conference, “Laboru Network” Co-ordinator (March 2016-present)
Member of the Coordination Committee of European Labour History Network (April 2014-present)
Coordinator of the “Factory History Working Group” of the European Labour History Network (October 2013-present)
Editorial Coordinator of Praksis Journal (October 2014-November 2015) Member of European Labour History Network (October 2013-present) Member of Editorial Board of Praksis Journal (February 2013-present) Member of Eastern Sociological Society, USA (February 2006-present)
Member of Alternative Culture beyond Borders Project (August 2007-present)
Referee/Reviewer
International Review of Social History (2014, 2016)
Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi Dergisi (Journal of Atatürk Research Center) (2015) Praksis (2014,2015)
