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Resume

Work
Experience

2024 - 

Part Time Faculty Member 

Sociology Department & Computational Social Sciences Graduate Program

Koç University

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2023 - October 2024 

Associate Professor

Cinema, Television and Radio Department

AltınbaÅŸ University 

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2021 - 2023

Assistant Professor 

Cinema, Television and Radio Department

Altınbaş University

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​2017 - 2021

Assistant Professor 

Social Sciences Department

Altınbaş University

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​2016 - 2017

Teaching Assistant 

Social Sciences Department

Altınbaş University

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​2013 - 2016

Adjunct Faculty

Sociology Department

Koç University

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2007 - 2013

Teaching Assistant

GSAS Music Department

New York University

 

2012 - 2013

Teaching Assistant,

Expressive Culture: Sound,

Fall Semester (David Samuels)

Music Department, NYU

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2011

Lecturer,

Musics of New York: The Ottoman-American Diaspora

Winter Session 

Music Department, NYU

 

2010

Research Assistant, Walter Z. Feldman

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2009 - 2010

Teaching Assistant

Musics of the Middle East

Fall Semester (Walter Z. Feldman)

Music Department, NYU

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2009-2010

Teaching Assistant 

Expressive Culture: Orientalism and Music 

Fall Semester. (Rena C Mueller)

Music Department, NYU

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2008 - 2009

Teaching Assistant

Fall Semester   (Suzanne G Cusick) 

Expressive Culture: Sound,

Music Department, NYU 

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Education

2007 - 2015
New York University - PhD Degree

Department of Music/Ethnomusicology,

Dissertation Title: Köçek: A Genealogy of Cross-dressed Male Belly Dancers (Dancing Boys) from Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey

Advisor: Suzanne G. Cusick

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2005 - 2009
Ä°stanbul Teknik Üniversitesi - Master’s Degree

M.A., Music/Ethnomusicology, MIAM (Center for Advanced Studies in Music)

 

1999 - 2005
BoÄŸaziçi Üniversitesi - Bachelor's Degree

B.A., Economics Department

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Skills
& Expertise

  • Writing

  • Research

  • Composing for film & stage

  • Public Speaking

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