CENGİZ HAKSÖZ CV
EDUCATION:
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
PhD Candidate, degree expected in September 2021
Major: Sociology
Dissertation: Double Integration or Boundary Making? Ethnic-Turks from Bulgaria in Germany and Negotiation of Identities.
GPA: 3.81
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
PhD Candidate, degree expected in November 2020
Major: Anthropology (Socio-Cultural)
Certificates: Certificate of Advanced Study of Eastern European Studies
Dissertation: Conflict Avoidance Strategies in Peripheral Minority Towns in Bulgaria
GPA: 3.89
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
MS, September 2007
Major: Sociology
MS Thesis: Linguistic Rights of the Turkish Minority in Bulgaria
GPA: 3.71
Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
BA, June 2003
Major: Political Science and International Relations
GPA: 2.95
LANGUAGES:
Turkish (native), English (fluent), Bulgarian (fluent), German (intermediate), Spanish (beginner), Greek (basic).
AREAS OF INTEREST:
Geographical areas: the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Turkey, and North America.
Theoretical themes: food, collective memory, borderlands, identity, minorities, ethnicity, language, religion, anthropology of Islam, nationalism, migration, energy, and urban studies.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Haksöz, C. (2017) Between “Unwanted” and “Desired” Populations: Comparing Citizenship and Migration Policies of Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey, Balkan Social Science Review, 9 (9): 23-47.
Haksöz, C. (2016) The Making of the Rhodopean Borders and Construction of the Pomak Identities in the Balkans, International Crimes and History: Annual International Law and History Journal, Special Issue “Population Movements in the Balkans and the Making of Borders, States, and Identities,” 17: 47-100.
BOOK CHAPTERS:
Haksöz, C. (2015) Eating in Gezi, Devoured by Gezi: Food and Resistance in Istanbul Gezi Park Protests, in Koç, G. and Aksoy, H. (eds.) Another Brick in the Barricade: The Gezi Resistance and Its Aftermath, 55-78, Vienna: Wiener Verlag für Sozialforschung.
Haksöz, C. (2008) Minority Language Education and Ethno-linguistic Identity: The Case of the Turkish Minority in the Post-Communist Bulgaria, in Paraskakis, I. and Luneski, A. (eds.), Infusing Research and Knowledge in South-East Europe: Proceedings of the 3rd Annual South-East European Doctoral Student Conference (26-27 June 2008), 1: 297-309, Thessaloniki: South-East European Research Centre (SEERC).
BOOK REVIEWS:
Haksöz, C. (2018, forthcoming) book review, Kamusella, T. (2019) Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War: The Forgotten 1989 Expulsion of Turks from Communist Bulgaria, London and New York: Routledge, International Crimes and History: Annual International Law and History Journal.
Haksöz, C. (2018) book review, Vermeulen, Baldwin-Edwards, and Van Boeschoten (eds) (2015), Migration in the Southern Balkans: From Ottoman Territory to Globalized Nation States, Cham: Springer, Südosteuropa: Journal of Politics and Society, Winter 2018.
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS:
Instructor, Sociology of Food, Boğaziçi University, Department of Tourism Administration, Istanbul, Summer 2018.
Instructor, Sociology of Food, Boğaziçi University, Department of Tourism Administration, Istanbul, Spring 2018.
Instructor, Anthropology of Tourism, Boğaziçi University, Department of Tourism Administration, Istanbul, Fall 2017.
Instructor, Sociology of Food, Boğaziçi University, Department of Tourism Administration, Istanbul, Summer 2017.
Teaching Fellow, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Instructed by Dr. Philip Kao, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology, Fall 2016.
Instructor, Sociology of Food, Boğaziçi University, Department of Tourism Administration, Istanbul, Summer 2016.
Instructor, Anthropology of Food, University of Pittsburgh, College of General Studies, Spring 2016.
Instructor, Sociology of Food, Boğaziçi University, Department of Tourism Administration, Istanbul, Summer 2015.
Instructor, Human Sexuality in Cross-cultural Perspective, University of Pittsburgh, College of General Studies, Summer 2014.
Instructor, Anthropology of Food, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology, Spring 2014.
Instructor, Sociology of Food, Boğaziçi University, Department of Tourism Administration, Istanbul, Fall 2013.
Instructor, Ethnography of the Balkans [Balkanlar Etnografyası], Yeni Yüzyıl University, Department of Anthropology, Istanbul, Fall 2013.
Instructor, Contemporary Anthropological Theories [Güncel Antropoloji Kuramları], Yeni Yüzyıl University, Department of Anthropology, Istanbul, Fall 2013.
Instructor, Cities of Cultural Conquest: Istanbul, Cordoba and Granada, co-instructed with Dr. William Chase, University of Pittsburgh Study Abroad Course, in May 2013.
Teaching Fellow, Anthropology of South Asia: Language and Media Instructed by Dr. Laura C. Brown, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology, Spring 2013.
Teaching Fellow, Anthropology of Food, Instructed by Dr. Kathleen Musante, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology, Spring 2013.
LECTURES:
Haksöz, C. (2021) Politics of (In)visibilities in a Peripheral Bulgarian Town, Balkan Journeys. The American Institute for Southeast European Studies (AISEES) Lectures in Cultural Heritage, March 31st, 2021, online.
Haksöz, C. (2018) From Imperial Frontiers to Nation-state Borders: Understanding Southeastern European Nation-building, 1st Summer School “Borderland studies in East Central Europe and the Black Sea Region,” June 25th – July 06th 2018, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Haksöz, C. (2017) Politics of (In)Visibilities and Conflict Avoidance Strategies through Urban Landscapes at the Peripheries of Bulgaria: The Case of Three Muslim Minority Cities, Rīgas Stradiņš University, Riga, October 12, 2017.
Haksöz, C. (2015) Istanbul 2013 Gezi Park Protests: Analyzing the Resistance through Food, American Research Center in Sofia, April 9, 2015.
Haksöz, C. (2014) Eating in Gezi, Devoured by Gezi: Food and Resistance in 2013 Istanbul Gezi Park Protests, University of Pittsburgh, European Union Center of Excellence/ European Studies Center, April 9, 2014.
Haksöz, C. (2014) Minority Memoryscapes and Politics of Visibilities in the Post-socialist Bulgaria, University of Pittsburgh, Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies, February 19, 2014.
Haksöz, C. (2013) Pomak Identifications across the Greek, Bulgarian, and Turkish Borders, University of Pittsburgh, European Union Center of Excellence/ European Studies Center, January 23, 2013.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS:
Senior Anthropologist, Adam Smith AS Research, Ankara, Turkey, (2017 – ongoing).
Academic and Research Consultant (freelance).
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
Haksöz, C. (2019) Conflict Avoidance or Sustaining Peace? Minority Urban Peripheries in Bulgaria, “PACSA 2019 Conference: Creativity, Resistance and Hope: Towards an Anthropology of Peace,” Queen's University, Belfast October 3-5, 2019.
“Transborder Commemoration Routes and Rituals Conference,” Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, November 1-2, 2018.
Haksöz, C. (2018) Commemorative Fountains as Transborder Memoryscapes: The Türkan Çeşme Fountains in Bulgaria and Turkey, “Transborder Commemoration Routes and Rituals Conference,” Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, November 1-2, 2018.
Haksöz, C. with Sarı, R. and Kılıç, Ç. (2018) Gender Inequality in Energy Transition in Turkey, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, August 28-31, 2018.
Haksöz, C. (2018) Representing Cultures in Peripheral Museums in Bulgaria: World, National, and Local Cultures in Ethnographic and Regional History Museums, 14th EASA Biannual Conference, Stockholm, August 14-17, 2018.
Haksöz, C. (2018) Politics and Culture of (In)Visibilities in Turkey: Practices, Regulations and Discourses Around Alcohol Consumption since the 2000s, International Workshop “The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey,” Center of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg, February 14-16, 2018.
Haksöz, C. (2017) Conflict Avoidance as a Post-Conflict Strategy in Minority Urban Spaces of Bulgaria, AAA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 29 November-3 December 2017.
Haksöz, C. (2017) Re-opening of the Border and Re-invention of “No-pork” Food in the Bulgarian-Greek Borderlands in a workshop Alternative Food Supply Networks in Central and Eastern Europe: Towards New Grounds for Interpretation and Collaboration, Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga, October 13-14, 2017.
Haksöz, C. (2017) Shifting Muslim Identity Boundaries in the Post-Ottoman Bulgarian-Greek Borderlands in a workshop Multiplicity of Divisions: Boundaries and Borders of the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Russian Empires in the 19th –early 20th Century, Center for Interethnic Research in Eastern Europe, at the School of History, Hryhoriy Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Ukraine, September 28-29, 2017.
Haksöz, C. (2017) Expressing Domination and Existence through Urban Landscape in Post-Socialist Bulgarian Minority Cities, in a workshop Dialoguing 'Between the Posts: Post-socialist and post-/decolonial perspectives on domination, hierarchy and resistance in South-Eastern Europe, Faculty of Media and Communication, Singidunum University, Belgrade, September 22-23, 2017.
Haksöz, C. (2017) Post-socialist Urban Landscapes and Politics of (In)visibilities in Three Turkish-Muslim Minority Cities in Post-Socialist Bulgaria, “City, Community and the Transformation of Space in Post-Eastern Bloc Societies,” Lazarski University, Warsaw, June 24, 2017.
Haksöz, C. (2016) “He Is One of Us!:” Conducting Transnational and Multi-sited Research in Peripheral Bulgaria, AAA Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 16-20 November 2016.
Haksöz, C. (2016) Strategizing Urban Landscapes in Peripheral Minority Cities in Bulgaria: The Examples of Kardzhali, Razgrad, and Smolyan, “Beyond the Borders,” The 10th Joint Meeting of Bulgarian and North American Scholars, Sofia, June 27-29, 2016.
Haksöz, C. (2016) Who is Dominant and Who is Subordinated? Use of Landscapes in Minority Cities in Bulgaria, “Insiders and Outsiders: Belonging and Identity in Eastern Europe,” The 13th Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia (GOSECA) Conference, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, March 18-20, 2016.
Haksöz, C. (2015) Post-Socialism with an EU Face: Comparing Citizenship and Migration Policies of Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey, “From the integration to the Integration: Political Changes on the Balkans and their way to the European Union,” Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, December 11-12, 2015.
Haksöz, C. (2015) Immobilizing the Violence: “Yeryüzü Iftarları” as a Performance during the Istanbul Gezi Park Protests, “Move on! Mobility Meets (little) Resistances,” Graduate Conference of the interdisciplinary research platform “Mobile Cultures & Societies Interdisciplinary Studies on Transnational Formations,” University of Vienna, Austria, November 26-28, 2015.
Haksöz, C. (2015) Narratives, Practices, and Performances in/around Religioscapes: the Cases of Two Peripheral Cities in Post-socialist Bulgaria, “Religion and the Public from 1989/1991” Workshop, Justus-Liebig Universitaet Giessen, Germany, January 27-28, 2015.
Haksöz, C. (2014) Negotiating (in)Visibilities to the EU: Muslim Memoryscapes in Post-socialist Bulgaria and Macedonia, 2014 Graduate Research Workshop Conference on the European Union, The Colorado European Union Center of Excellence at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, May 15-16, 2014.
Haksöz, C. (2014) How “Nationalist” Memoryscapes Were “Socialist” and Later Became “Post-Socialist”?: Politics of Memorizations in Post-Socialist Sofia, Capitals, (ACLA) American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, New York University, New York, NY, March 21-22, 2014.
Haksöz, C. (2014) Food in #Gezi Park Protests: From Ideology and Solidarity to Resistance, Resurrections, (CES) Council of European Studies, the 21 International Conference of Europeanists, Washington, D.C., March 14-16, 2014.
Haksöz, C. (2013) (Re)construction of Memory in “Mixed” Cities in Bulgaria: Memoryscapes in Smolyan, Kardzhali and Razgrad, Revolution, the 45th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Boston, MA, November 21-24, 2013.
Haksöz, C. (2013) Politics and Practices of Memorialization in Socialist and Post-Socialist Memoryscapes in Bulgaria, Re-thinking the Central and Eastern Europe Totalitarianisms: Challenges, Entanglements and Reassessments, 2nd Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Totalitarianism for PhD Students, Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania, October 17-18, 2013.
Haksöz, C. (2013) Contestation over Memoryscapes: Examples from Post-socialist Bulgaria, Culture and Memory: Turkish Cultural Studies Association VIIth International Cultural Studies Symposium, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, September 5-7, 2013.
Haksöz, C. (2012) Contesting Borders via Contesting Boundaries: Examples of the Torbeshis of Macedonia and the Pomaks of the Rhodopes and Western Thrace, Boundary, Barrier and Border Crossing, the 44th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), New Orleans, LA, November 15-18, 2012.
Haksöz, C. (2012) Killing for Existence: Sacrifice Gatherings at the Demir Baba and the Yenihan Baba Shrines in Bulgaria, Pray, Kill, Eat: Relating to Animals across Religious Traditions, Department of Religion Annual Graduate Student Conference, Columbia University, New York, NY, April 20, 2012.
Haksöz, C. (2012) A De-compartmentalized Approach to Post-Socialist Studies: Cases from Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, The 50th Midwest Slavic Conference, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, March 30, 2012 – April 1, 2012.
Haksöz, C. (2011) From Religious to Nationalistic Shrine?: The Yenihan Baba Shrine In Southern Bulgaria, Shared Spaces and their Dissolution: Practices of Coexistence in Cyprus and Elsewhere Conference, The Association for Historical Dialogue and Research and PRIO Cyprus Centre, Nicosia, October 14-15, 2011.
Haksöz, C. (2011) Religious and Nationalistic Contestation at a Saint's Shrine in Bulgaria, Twenty Years after 1991: The Reshaping of Space and Identity, Joint Conference of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAN (Moscow), Centre d’études franco-russe (Moscow), Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow) and the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, September 29 – October 1, 2011.
Haksöz, C. (2011) Language as a 'Symbol of Existence': Turkish Minority Language in Bulgaria, The 34th Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, New York, NY: La Guardia Community College CUNY, March 26, 2011.
Haksöz, C. (2010) Contestation over Space, Time and Meaning: The Demir Baba Tekke in Northeastern Bulgaria, The 33rd Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Swarthmore, PA: Swarthmore College, March 20, 2010.
Haksöz, C. (2008) Physical and Symbolic Relations Among the Shrine of Hacı Bayram-ı Veli and the Temple of Augustus Echoing in the Practices of Visitors, Social Anthropology Graduate Student Symposium: Perceptions and Practices around the Temple of Augustus and the Hacı Bayram Mosque, Ankara: Middle East Technical University, June 3, 2008.
Haksöz, C. (2005) Since the Mass Exodus of 1989; Migration Process of Turks of Bulgaria to Turkey, The 3rd Graduate Students Conference of Turkish Political Science Association, Ankara: Hacettepe University Department of Public Administration, November 12, 2005.
Haksöz, C. (2004) Bulgaria On The Road of the EU: Integration and Migration Patterns of the Turkish Minority, The 3rd Joint German–Turkish Seminar: Globalization: Impacts and Responses in Different Contexts: Germany and Turkey Compared: Berlin and Ankara: Middle East Technical University-Ankara, Department of Sociology and Free University of Berlin, Otto-Suhr-Institute of Political Science, June – July 2004.
RESEARCH GRANTS:
University of Pittsburgh, University Center for International Studies (UCIS), The International Studies Fund, Summer 2017.
The History Project Research Grant, “Minority Economic Landscapes in Post-Independence Peripheral Bulgarian Cities," 2016.
University of Pittsburgh, European Union Center of Excellence/ European Studies Center (EUCE/ESC), Klinzing Dissertation Fellowship, 2014.
University of Pittsburgh, European Union Center of Excellence/ European Studies Center (EUCE/ESC), European Union Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Summer 2012.
University of Pittsburgh, University Center for International Studies (UCIS), The International Studies Fund, Summer 2012.
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology, Pre-Dissertation Small Grant, Summer 2011.
NSF-REG (Anthropology Research Experience for Graduates), “Political Use of a Sacred Site: Religious and Nationalistic Contestation at a Saint's Shrine in Bulgaria”, Grant No: 1035005, Summer 2010.
FELLOWSHIPS:
Erasmus + Scholarship, University of Bielefeld, Department of Sociology, Germany, September 2019 – March 2020.
Erasmus + Scholarship, University of Bielefeld, Department of Sociology, Germany, September 2018 – March 2019.
American Research Center in Sofia (ARCS) Residential Fellowship, Fall 2012.
The Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, August 2009 – July 2010, August 2010 – July 2011, August 2011 – July 2012.
Socrates/ Erasmus Scholarship, Chemnitz University of Technology, Institute of Sociology, Germany, September 2006 – March 2007.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Editor (2014 – 2015), Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture, contemporaneity.pitt.edu
OTHER EXPERIENCES:
Team Manager, Telus International, Essen, Germany, November 2018 – present.
Senior Anthropologist, Horizon 2020 project “Energy Justice in Rural Turkey” facilitated through Adam Smith AS Research, Ankara, January – February 2018.
ENCON Environmental Research Company, Senior Researcher, February – March 2009. Administered questionnaires to people who will potentially be affected by a construction of a mega-dam project in the region.
Marmara University, Department of Sociology, Researcher, Depremden Beş Yıl Sonra Düzce – Bir Alan Calışması [Düzce: After Five Years of the Earthquake – A Field Study], September 2004, Principal investigators Prof. Belkıs Kümbetoğlu, Assis. Prof. Şebnem Gülfidan, Assis. Prof. İnci User, Dr. Melih Çoban, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.
HSBC Bank Headquarters, Trainee in the Branch Support Unit, Istanbul, Turkey, 2002
Akbank T.A.Ş. Trainee in Konaklı-Alanya Branch, Antalya, Turkey, 2001
MEMBERSHIPS:
AISEES (The American Institute for Southeast European Studies)
EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists)
InASEA (International Association for Southeast European Anthropology)
GTOT (Society for Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Conference)
PACSA (Peace and Conflict Studies Association)
Anthropology of Food (Research Network Group in EASA)