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MELTEM YILMAZ ŞENER yilmazmeltem@hotmail.com ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor,

Department of Sociology, İstanbul Bilgi University, 2011- Instructor,

Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Özyeğin University, 2010-2011 Visiting Assistant Professor,

Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009-2010.

Teaching Assistant,

Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004- 2009.

Research Assistant,

Gender and Women’s Studies Program, Middle East Technical University, 2002-2004.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, Sociology, 2010

Dissertation: The World Bank’s Social Risk Management Approach to Poverty: The Case of ‘The Social Risk Mitigation Project’ in Turkey

Minor Degree in ‘Women and Gender in Global Perspectives’ M.S. Middle East Technical University, Sociology, 2004

Thesis: “Evaluating Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World: A Case Study of Turkish Top Managers in a Multinational Corporation”

B.S. Middle East Technical University, Business Administration, Turkey, 1999 Minor Degree in Sociology

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PUBLICATIONS

Yılmaz Şener, M. (2012) “A World Bank Project Implemented by a Moderate Islamic Party: The Social Risk Mitigation Project in Turkey” in Middle Eastern Studies 48 (5): 765-780.

Yılmaz Şener, M. (2012) “Turkish Academics as Neoliberal Subjects?” Journal of Developing Societies 28 (3): 299-322.

Yılmaz Şener, M. (2008) “Turkish Managers as a Part of the Transnational Capitalist Class” Journal of World Systems Research 13 (2): 119-141.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Globalization, Qualitative Research Methods, Development, Neoliberalism, Inequality and Poverty, Classical & Contemporary Sociological Theory, Gender

PROJECTS

TÜBİTAK 1001, 2011- 2. Term, Living in Poverty: Poverty, Deprivation, and Social Exclusion from the Perspective of Children (Yoksulluğu Yaşamak: Çocukların Gözünden Yoksulluk, Yoksunluk ve Sosyal Dışlanma), Researcher.

Research Assistant for Prof. Manisha Desai’s project “Globalization and Gender”, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Geisert Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2008-2009) Transnational Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2007-2008) Transnational Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2004-2005)

Conference Travel Grant, Graduate College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2006, 2008)

Travel Grant, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2007)

Travel Award, Simon Fraser University, Canada (2007)

Conference Travel Grant, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2006)

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Travel Award, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation for ‘Cortona Colloquium- Cultural Conflicts, Social Movements, and New Rights: A European Challenge’, Cortona, Italy (2006)

Travel Award, Duke University for ‘Thinking through New Media Graduate Student Conference’ (2006)

Travel Award, Heinrich Böll Foundation for Berlin-Ankara Joint Seminar (2003) PRESENTATIONS

“Turkish Academics as Neoliberal Subjects? Producing Knowledge for the World Bank” International Conference on Changing Universities: Governance, Relevance, Performance,

Sabancı University, İstanbul, Turkey, 2009.

“Management of Social Risk as the World Bank Style Development”

Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, San Jose, Costa Rica, 2008.

“World Bank’s ‘Social Risk Management’ Approach as a Form of Neoliberal Governmentality: ‘The Social Risk Mitigation Project’ in Turkey”

World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Budapest, Hungary, 2008.

“World Citizenship or Class Distinction?”

Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association, New York, 2007.

“An Inquiry into the Meanings of Cosmopolitanism in the Third World” Annual Conference of the Global Studies Association,

UC Irvine, 2007.

Position Paper on Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire by Wendy Brown

Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.

“Turkish Managers as a Part of the Transnational Capitalist Class” Hegemonic Transitions and the State Conference, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2007.

“A Transnational Women’s Network against Fundamentalism (and Orientalism): Women Living under Muslim Laws”

Cortona Colloquium 2006 - Cultural Conflicts, Social Movements, and New Rights, Cortona, Italy, 2006.

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“Economic Transformation through Military Intervention: September 12 Military Coup in Turkey”

Middle East and Central Asia: Politics, Economics, and Society Conference, University of Utah, 2006.

“From Neoliberal Globalization to Empire”

Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada, 2006.

“Evaluating Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World: A Case Study of Turkish Top Managers in a Multinational Corporation”

International Crossroads Conference, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, 2006.

“Internet Use in Anti-Globalization Movements: ‘Fifty Years Is Enough’ Network” Thinking through New Media Graduate Student Conference,

Duke University, 2006.

“The Day that I Learned that I Am Not White: An Auto-Ethnographic Performance” International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006. “Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and Saturday Mothers”

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Chicago, 2006.

“Poverty in Turkey within the Context of Globalization” Berlin-Ankara Joint Seminar,

Berlin Free University, 2003. TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor (İstanbul Bilgi University) • Sociology of Culture (Fall 2011)

• Social Stratification /Inequality (Fall 2011, Fall 2012) • Change in Contemporary Turkish Society I (Fall 2011) • Basics of Sociology (Fall 2011, Spring-Fall 2012) • Sociology of Gender and Family (Spring 2012)

• Change in Contemporary Turkish Society II (Spring 2012) • History of Sociological Thought II (Spring 2012)

• Social Change and Globalization (Fall 2012) Instructor (Özyeğin University)

• Introduction to Social Sciences (Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Summer 2011) • Sociology (Spring 2011)

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Visiting Assistant Professor (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) • Introduction to Sociological Theory (Fall 2009, Spring 2010) • Gender in Transnational Perspective (Fall 2009)

• Globalization, Dynamics, Debates (Fall 2009, Spring 2010) Instructor (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

• Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (Summer 2008, Summer 2009) Teaching Assistant (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

• Introduction to Sociology (Spring 2005)

Grading Assistant (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) • Introduction to Sociological Theory (Fall 2005-Spring 2007) • Global Inequality (Fall 2004)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Founding Member of the Global and Transnational Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA), 2008

Co-Organizer for the Panel “The Global and the Local: Doing Sociology in the Light of Global Ethnography”, World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Budapest, Hungary, 2008

Co-Chair for the Panel “Negotiating Identity - Conversations with Self, Country and Culture”, International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006 Commentator in the Panel “Global Perspectives on Gender, Resistance and the Nation”, Seventh Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006

Organization Committee Member, Transnational Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006 & 2008

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS American Sociological Association

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