CURRICULUM VITAE

 

M. Hakan Yavuz

Associate Professor

Department of Political Science

The Middle East Center

260 S. Central Campus Drive Rm 252

Salt Lake City, UT 84112

Office (801) 585-7986

hakan.yavuz@poli-sci.utah.edu

 

 

 

                                                                  EDUCATION

 

The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D.1998.

 

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1987-89.

Master of Arts in Political Science

 

The Leonard Davis Institute

The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, ISRAEL, 1989.

 

The University of Ankara, TURKEY

Bachelor of Arts, International Relations, Faculty of

Political Science (Mülkiye Mektebi), Ankara, 1983-1987.

 


           

                                ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN REFEREED JOURNALS

 

Books:

 

Islamic Political Identity in Turkey (Oxford University Press, 2003). (3rd print)

 

with John Esposito eds., Turkish Islam and the Secular State: The Gülen Movement (Syracuse University Press, 2003).

 

Edited Journals:

 

With Roberta Micallef Turkish Diaspora, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 2004.

Kurdish Question in Turkey, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 1998.

Islam in Turkey: The Case of Said Nursi, The Muslim World, 1999.

 

 

Journal Articles:

 

 

1.      M.H. Yavuz, “Is there a Turkish Islam? The Emergence of Convergence and Consensus,” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 24, No. 2 (2004), 1-22.

 

2.      M. Hakan Yavuz, “Die Renaissance des religiosen Bewusstseins in der Türkei: Nur-Studienzirkel,” in Nilüfer Göle and Ludwing Amman, Islam in Sicht (Biefeld, verlag, 2004), pp. 121-146.

 

3.      Turkey’s Kurdish-Centered Iraqi Policy,” In Mohammed A. A. Ahmed and Michael Gunter, eds., The Kurdish Question and the 2003 Iraqi War (Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publisher, 2004), pp. 163-173.

 

4.      with M. Khan, “Turkey and Europe: Will east Meet West?,” Current History, Vol. 103, No. 676 (November 2004), pp. 389-393.

 

5.      Turkey, Iraq and the Kurds,” Panel Discussion, Middle East Policy, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring 2004), pp. 106-131.

 

6.      Proceedings of the forum, "Conversations in Islam: Politics and Religion in the Global Public Sphere," Budapest, May 29, 2003. http://www.humanities.uci.edu/history/levineconference/MLbudapesttranscriptedit2.pdf Edited version appearing in the Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam, 2004, forthcoming.

 

7.      “A Typology of Islamic Social Movements: The Opportunity Spaces and the Case of Turkey,” In Quintan Wiktorowicz and Charles Kuzman, eds. Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003), pp. 270-288.

 

8.      “The Case of Turkey,” Daedalus, Vol. 132, No. 3 (Summer 2003), pp. 59-62.

 

9.      Nur Study Circles (Dershanes) and the Formation of New Religious Consciousness in Turkey,” In Islam at the Crossroads: On the life and thought of Bediüzzaman Said Nursi (New York: State University of New York Press, 2003), 297-316.

 

10.  co-authored, “Bringing Turkey into Europe,” Current History, Vol. 102, No. 662, (March 2003), pp. 119-123.

 

11.  “The Politics of Fear: The Rise of the Nationalistic Action Party (MHP) in Turkey,” Middle East Journal, Vol. 56, No. 2 (2002), pp. 200-221.

 

12.  “Five Stages of the Construction of Kurdish Nationalism in Turkey,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, vol. 7, No. 3 (Autumn 2001), pp. 1-24.

 

13.  M.Hakan Yavuz and Michael M. Gunter, “The Kurdish Nation,” Current History,

     (January 2001), pp. 33-39.

 

14.  “Değisim Sürecindeki Alevi Kimliği/Die alewitische Identitat in VeranderungsprozeB,” Aleviler: Identitat und Geschichte Vol 1 (Hamburg: Deutsche Orient-Institut, 2000), pp. 75-95.

 

15.  Cleansing Islam from the Public Sphere and the February 28 Process,” Journal of International Affairs (Columbia University Press), Vol. 54, No. 1 (Fall 2000), pp. 21-42.

16.  “Turkish identity Politics and Central Asia,” In Islam and Central Asia: An Enduring Legacy or an Evolving Threat? eds., Roald Z. Sagdeev and Susan Eisenhower (Washington DC: the Center for Political and Strategic Studies, 2000), pp. 193-211.

 

17.  Turkey’s Fault Lines and the Crisis of Kemalism,” Current History, Vol. 99 (January 2000), pp. 33-39.

 

18.  “The Assassination of Collective Memory: The Case of Turkey,” The Muslim World Vol. 99 (1999), pp. 193-207.

 

19.  “Towards an Islamic Liberalism?: The Nurcu Movement and Fethullah Gülen,” The Middle East Journal, Vol. 53, No. 4 (Autumn 1999), pp. 584-605.

 

20.  “Societal Search for a New Social Contract in Turkey: Fethullah Gülen, The Virtue Party and the Kurds,” SAIS Review, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Winter 1999), pp. 114-143.

 

21.  "Media Identities for Kurds and Alevis in Turkey," in New Media and the Politics of Civil Society in Muslim  Societies eds. Dale F. Eickelman and Jon Anderson (Indiana University Press, 1999), pp. 180-200.

 

22.  “The Matrix of Modern Turkish Islamic Movements: The Naqshbandi Sufi Order,” In The Naqshbandis in Western and Central Asia, ed. Elisabeth Ozdalga (London: Curzon Press, 1999), pp. 125-142.

 

23.  “The Abrading of the Turkish Republican Myths,” JIME Review (Japan), Vol. 12, No. 41 (1998), pp. 18-34.

 

24.  “Political Islam and the Welfare (Refah) Party in Turkey," Comparative Politics. Vol. 30, No. 1 (October 1997), pp. 63-82.

 

25.  “Turkic Identity and Foreign Policy in Flux: The Rise of neo-Ottomanism,” Critique, No. 12 (1998), pp. 19-42.

 

26.  “A Preamble to the Kurdish Question: The Politics of Kurdish Identity,” Introduction to special issue on the Kurds, Journal of Muslim Minority Affair, Vol. 18, No. 1 (1998) pp. 9-18.

 

27.  "Turkish-Israeli Relations Through the Lens of the Turkish Identity Debate," Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Autumn 1997), pp. 22-37.

 

28.  "Return of Islam?" New Dynamics in State-Society Relations and the Role of Islam in Turkish Politics," Muslim World Report Vol. 1, No. 3 (1996), pp. 77-87.

 

29.  "Nationalism and Islam: Yusuf Akçura, `Üç Tarz-i  Siyaset,'" Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1993), pp. 175-207.

 

30.  "The Patterns of Political Islamic Identity: Dynamics of National and Transnational Loyalties and Identities," Central Asian Survey, Vol 14, No. 3 (1995), pp. 341-372.

 

31.   "Bosnian Struggle for Recognition," Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 16, No.1 (1996), pp. 135-142.

 

32.  "Turkey's Imagined Enemies: Kurds and Islamist," The  World Today, (April 1996), pp. 98-103.

 

33.  "Cyprus and International Politics," The Cyprus Review, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Fall 1992), pp. 135-143.

 

34.  Co-author, "A Bridge between East and West” Duality and  the Development of Turkish Foreign Policy Toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict" Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Fall 1992), pp.69-95.

 

35.  "The Evolution of Ethno-nationalism in Cyprus under the Ottoman and British Systems," The Cyprus Review, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Fall 1991), pp. 57-80.

 

 

 

Encyclopedia Contributions:

 

Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (New York: Gale, 2004).

 

Encyclopedia of Nationalism, ed. Alexander J. Motyl (Academic Press, 2001).

Ziya Gökalp, Alevi, Pan-Islam, Enver Pasa, Yusuf Akcura, Turkish Cypriot Nationalism, Kurdish Nationalism.

 

The Oxford Dictionary of Islam ed. John Esposito (Oxford University Press, 2002)

Adil Düzen and Fethullah Gülen.

 

Semi-scholarly journals:

 

1.      “Being Modern in the Nurcu Way,” ISIM Newsletter (International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, Leiden University), No. 6 (October 2000), pp. 7, 14. 

2.      with Mujeeb R. Khan, “The Turkish Quake and Its Socio-Political Aftershocks,” Middle East International, (September 1999).

3.      Turkey and the Guns of August,” Middle East International (July 1998).

4.      “Democracy is an Islamic Plot; Human Rights are a Kurdish Agenda: The Political ironies of Turkey’s Erstwhile `Westernizers.’ Middle East International (February 1998).

5.      "Turkey: the establishment against liberalization," Middle East International (August 1997).

 

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs (Carfax).

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER: Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies

 

 

                                                               SCHOLARSHIPS  

 

           

1.      Fellowship for Summer Institute 2001/2002 on “Public Spheres and Muslim Identities” [This Institute is part of the European and American  Young Scholars' Institutes Program. It is funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and administered through the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in cooperation with the Social Science Research Council (New York).

2.      Rockefeller Fellowship in its Program in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding for the 2001-2002. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow. The Joan B. Kroc Institute For International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame.

3.      Resident Fellow, “Islamic Modernities in an Era of Globalization: Discourses,            Movements and Diasporas.” University of California Humanities Research Institute. (Winter 2000).

4.      Post-Doctoral Position in the School of  Islamic and Social Sciences in Leesburg,Virginia (1997-1998).

5.      Dissertation Fellowship, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (1994-1995).

6.      Fieldwork Dissertation Fellowship, John D. and Catherine  T. MacArthur Foundation (1993-1994).

7.      SSRC Central Asian Language Scholarship (Summer 1992,1993).

8.      Arabic Language Scholarship from the Center for Middle  Eastern Studies, University of Chicago (1991).   

           

 

 

 

GRANTS

 

1.      The Middle East Center of the University of Utah Travel Research Grant, 2004.

2.      The Middle East Center of the University of Utah Travel Research Grant, 2003.

3.      The Middle East Center of the University of Utah Travel Research Grant, 2002.

4.      The Middle East Center of the University of Utah Travel Research Grant, 2001.

5.      The Middle East Center of the University of Utah Travel Research Grant to visit Turkey and Germany in order to continue my research on Kurdish and Alevi political identity (1999).

 

6.      The Japanese Institute of Middle Eastern Economies (Tokyo, Japan): “Islamic Movements in Turkey and Uzbekistan.”  This project examines the following questions: What are the Nurcu movements in Turkey and Uzbekistan? What are the impacts of social changes on religious movements (1998).

 

7.      The Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (London) “The Ethnic, Political and Religious Attitudes among  Alevi Youth in Turkey.”  This project analyzes Alevi political movements to identify their causes and the connections linking them to large socio-economic and political changes.  It will enhance sociological understanding of  ethno-religious movements and assess their impact on the prospects for democratization in the Middle East (1997).

 

8.      The Foundation (Istanbul). “The Emergence of a Market Society and the Role of Islamic Social Movements.”  This study will examine the consequences of market-oriented Malay polity on Islamic political movements.  This project will employ surveys, in-depth interviews, and focus groups to examine the way in which the governing UMNO managed to integrate Islamic groups and the process of socio-economic differentiation (1997). 

 

Present Projects:

 

(1)   Islam and the Public Sphere; Islamic Modernities; the Role of Printing and Publishing in the Formation of Civic Culture; Political Governance in Plural Societies (Malaysia, Bosnia, Turkey, Kazakistan, Uzbekistan). 

(2)   New ethno-religious social movements and democratization (Uzbekistan, Kazakistan, Turkey, Iraq and Iran). 

(3)   The political economy of Central Asia; Will Central Asian states become rentier states?

 

 

RESEARCH CIRCLES AND RELATED PAPERS

 

1.      “Intervention what next? Reconstruction and Development in war-Torn Muslim Countries, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), 17-18 December 2004.

2.      Islam in the Public Sphere: Turkey and the Challenges of Religious Freedom,” Washington DC, Institute of Religion and Politics, 14 December 2004

3.      “Kurdish Question Round Table”, MESA, San Francisco,  2004

4.      Turkey’s experience with Islamic Politics: JDP,” at Politics and Islam in Comparative PerspectiveSimon Fraser (Canada), June 4, 2004.

5.      “The Future of the Kurds,” Columbia University, 15 April, 2004.

6.      “Islam and the EU Membership,” Colgate University,  15 March 2004.

7.      “Turkish Islam,” UCLA, 14 April 2004.

8.      “Islam, Democracy and Secularism in Turkey,” SAIS-Abant Planform

9.      “Layers of Political Islam,” Indiana University-Bloomington, December 1, 2003.

10.  "Iraq at War: The Kurdish Angle,” Brown University, October 1, 2003.

11.  “Zones of Islam,” Santa Barbara Council on Foreign Relations, September 17, 2003.

12.  “Reflection from Diyarbakir: Plight of the Kurds in