Başak Tuğ
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BAŞAK TUĞ
İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
Santral Kampüsü, Eski Silahtarağa Elektrik Santrali,
No: 2/13 34060 Eyüp İstanbul Turkey
Tel: 90-212-311-7639
email: basaktug@gmail.com
Education
May 2009
Dissertation title:
Ph.D., Joint Ph.D. Program in History & Middle
Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University,
New York.
“Politics of Honor: The Institutional and Social
Frontiers of “Illicit” Sex in Mid-Eighteenth-Century
Ottoman Anatolia”
1997-2000
MA with High Honors, History, Institute of Social
Sciences, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul.
1994-1997
BA with Honors, Political Science and International
Relations, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul.
Teaching and Research Experience
Fall 2009-continuing
Ass. Prof. , Courses offered: Sources of Turkish
Cultural and Intellectual History I (M.A.); Early
Ottoman History; Ottoman Institutions I; Special
Topics in History: Gender; Ottoman Social History,
Ottoman Paleography II; History and
Historiography I & II; English for Historians III.,
Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul.
Spring 2008
Teaching Assistant, Historical Consciousness in
Latin America, Prof. Sinclair Thomson, New York
University, New York.
Fall 2007
Teaching Assistant, The Making of the Muslim
Middle East 600-1200 A.D., Prof. Tamer El-Leithy,
New York University, New York.
September 2005-August 2007
Dissertation Research, İstanbul.
Spring 2004
Preceptor and Teaching Assistant, Muslim Spain,
Prof. Frank Peters, NYU, New York.
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Fall 2003
Teaching Assistant, What is Islam?, Prof. Frank
Peters, New York University, New York.
2000-2002
Preceptor and Teaching Assistant, Humanity and
Society, Sabancı University, İstanbul.
July-September 2001
Research Assistant, Prof. Halil Berktay, History
Textbook Project, Sabancı University, İstanbul.
1999-2000
Research Assistant, Prof. Leyla Neyzi, Shared
History Project on the Burning of Smyrna/Izmir,
Sabancı University, İstanbul.
1999-2000
Instructor, 101 Turkish Literature, Sabancı
University, İstanbul.
1998-1999
Research Assistant, Faculty of Arts and Sciences,
Doğuş University, İstanbul.
March-September 1998
Research Assistant, Exhibition of 75th Anniversary of
the Turkish Republic, Foundation for Economic and
Social History, İstanbul.
Publications
“Ottoman Women as Legal and Marital Subjects”, in The Ottoman World, edited by
Christine Woodhead, London and New York: Routledge (2012).
Book review of Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces by Marilyn
Booth (ed.) 2010, Duke University Press. International Journal of Middle East Studies 44
(2012), pp. 604-06.
“Tarihçi ve Feminist Olarak İslam Hukukunu Okumak”, Tarih ve Toplum Yeni
Yaklaşımlar 5 (Fall 2007), pp. 283-88.
“Claims on Modernity and Tradition: Republican Wedding and Marriage", in Crossroads
of History: Experience, Memory and Orality Vol 2 (İstanbul: Boğaziçi University, 2000),
pp. 645-49.
“Excerpts from an Oral History Interview” and additional teaching materials, provided
for Childhood in the Past: Additional Teaching Materials for Secondary Schools edited
by Milan Ristovic and Dubravka Stojanovic (Belgrade: Association for Social History,
2001).
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Additional teaching materials, provided for Women and Men in the Past edited by
Kristina Popova, Petar Vodenicharov and Snezhana Dimitrova (Belgrade: International
Seminar for Balkan Studies and Specialization, South-Western University, Blagoevgrad,
2002).
The Claims on Modernity and Tradition: Marriage in Turkey in the 1910s and 1920s.
Unpublished MA Thesis. (Boğazici University, 2000)
“Sosyal Bilimleri Yeniden Düşünmek ve Sempozyum Üzerine” (Rethinking Social
Sciences and On the Symposium). co-author Berk Balçık, Ceren Belge and Didem Danış,
Defter 33 (Spring 1998), pp. 249-51.
Conference & Workshop Presentations
“Publicity of the Private: Honor and Violence in the Ottoman Empire”, Workshop on
Honor in the Ottoman and Post Ottoman World: Controversies, Continuities, and New
Directions, co-organized by Central European University in Budapest, Boğaziçi
University, Istanbul Bilgi University and Institut Français des Etudes Anatoliennes,
İstanbul, Budapest, forthcoming, March 2013.
“Petitioning Conversion: Non-Muslims in the Imperial Council and Early-Modern
Ottoman Courts”, Middle East Studies Association, Denver, November 2012.
“«Habitual» Violence, Legal Surveillance and Punishment in Eighteenth-Century
Anatolia”, Workshop in Eighteenth-Century Crossroads in Ottoman Studies, coorganized by Central European University in Budapest, İstanbul Bilgi University and
Columbia University, Budapest, May 2011.
“Whose Honor was Destroyed? Sexual Violence between Public and Private in 18thcentury Anatolia”, Workshop on Violence in Ottoman Anatolia, New York University,
New York, March 2011.
“Politics of Honor in the Early-modern Ottoman Empire”, Workshop on Honor in
Ottoman/Turkish Studies, İstanbul Bilgi University, IFEA and European Journal of
Turkish Studies, co-organized by me and Noemi Lévy Aksu, Istanbul, December 2010.
“Being A “Virgin Wife”: Legal Subjectivity and Sexuality of the Early-Modern Ottoman
Muslim Woman” (In a panel organized by myself and Gülhan Erkaya Balsoy on “Body,
Self and Gender in Discourses and Practices in the Middle Eastern Context”), Middle
East Studies Association, Boston, November 2009.
“Discourses of Crime and Sexual Violence in Legal Practice in Mid-Eighteenth-Century
Ottoman Anatolia” (In a panel organized by myself and Tolga Esmer on “The Multiple
Registers of Violence in the Ottoman Empire: When Imperial Rivalries and Domestic
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Grievances Converge, ca. 18th–20th Centuries”), American Historical Association, New
York, January 2009.
“Governing Sexual Violence in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Anatolia”, Middle East
Studies Association, Montreal, November 2007.
“Petitioning, Gender and Legal Intervention in the Mid-Eighteenth Century”, MiniSymposia, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, Istanbul, May
2007.
“Cultural Translation as Constant Conversation between Intellectuals and Everyday
Life”, Middle East Studies Association, San Francisco, November 2004.
"The Gendered Discourse in the Secondary School History Textbooks in Turkey", copresented (with Umut Azak) on the conference of Gender in the Balkans, University of
Graz & University of Blagoevgrad, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, December 2000.
“Claims on Modernity and Tradition: Republican Wedding and Marriage", presented on
workshop "Families, Childhood and Stories”, the Eleventh International Oral History
Conference, Istanbul, June 2000.
Panels and Workshops Organized
Workshop (co-organized by Başak Tuğ, Elisse Massicard, Nadia al-Bagdadi, Noémi
Lévy-Aksu and Tolga U. Esmer) on “Honor in the Ottoman and Post Ottoman World:
Controversies, Continuities, and New Directions”, Budapest, forthcoming, March 2013.
Workshop (co-organized by Başak Tuğ, Christine Philliou and Tolga U. Esmer) on
“Eighteenth-Century Crossroads in Ottoman Studies”, Budapest, May 2011.
Workshop ( co-organized by Başak Tuğ and Noemi Lévy-Aksu) on “Honor in
Ottoman/Turkish Studies” Istanbul, December 2010.
Panel (co-organized by Gülhan Erkaya Balsoy and me) on “Body, Self and Gender in
Discourses and Practices in the Middle Eastern Context”, Middle East Studies
Association, Boston, November 2009.
Panel (co-organized by Başak Tuğ and Tolga U. Esmer) on “The Multiple Registers of
Violence in the Ottoman Empire: When Imperial Rivalries and Domestic Grievances
Converge, ca. 18th–20th Centuries”, American Historical Association, New York, January
2009.
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Language skills
Turkish (native), English (fluent), Ottoman Turkish (fluent in reading), Arabic (reading
level), French (reading level).
Awards and Fellowships
2002-2008
Henri MacCracken 5-year Fellowship for Ph.D.
studies, New York University, New York.
2008-2009
Dean’s Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences, New York University,
New York.
September 2006- June 2007
Dissertation Research Fellowship, Research Center
for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University,
İstanbul.
2004-2005 Academic Year
Visiting Scholarship, Prof. Leslie Peirce, UCBerkeley, Berkeley.
2000-2005
Graduate Studies Fellowship, Sabancı University,
(first two years were taken, then declined as a result
of the admission to NYU), İstanbul.
1992-1997
Hacı Ömer Sabancı 5-year fellowship for
undergraduate studies, İstanbul.
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