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
Altınbaş University
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2021 - 2023
Assistant Professor
Cinema, Television and Radio Department
Altınbaş University
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​2017 - 2021
Assistant Professor
Altınbaş University
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​2016 - 2017
Teaching Assistant
Altınbaş University
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​2013 - 2016
Adjunct Faculty
Koç University
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2007 - 2013
Teaching Assistant
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
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Writing
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Research
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Composing for film & stage
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Public Speaking