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Curriculum Vitae
DILEK BARLAS
Koç University
Rumelifeneri Yolu Sarıyer 34450
Istanbul-Turkey
Tel: (90-212) 3381408
Fax: (90-212) 338 3760
e-mail:
http:// dbarlas.ku.edu.tr
EDUCATION Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, department of hıstory, 1993
M.A., UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, ınternatıonal relatıons, 1985
B.A., UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES, polıtıcal scıence, 1982
HONORS &
PROMOTIONS Turkish Studies Grant, 1987
Title VI Fellowship, 1988
MacArthur Research and Training Grant, 1990
Agnelli Foundation, 1996
Diploma de Onoare, Nicolae Titulescu, 2004
TÜBA Bilimsel Yayın Desteği, 2005
The College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Koç University
Member of Academic Council, 2006-
Member of Executive Council. 2006-
The Social Sciences Institute, Koç University
Member of Graduate School Executive Council, 2008-2012
European Science Foundation (ESF), Turkish Representative
Standing Committee for the Humanities, 2008-2014
European Science Foundation (ESF), Member of the Advisory Group
Standing Committee for the Humanities, 2010-2011
Center for Gender Studies (Koç-Kam), Board Member, 2010-
Koç University, Member of Academic Disciplinary Committee, 2013-
Koç University, Erasmus Coordinator, 2009-
Notre Dame de Sion, Achievement&Honor Award, 2014
AKMED, Member of Executive Council, 2014-
POSITIONS HELD
2010- KOÇ UNIVERSITY
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Professor of History
2005-2006 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC)
Visiting Scholar
2005-2006 NORTWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Center for International and Comparative Studies (CICS)
Visiting Scholar
2004-2010 KOÇ UNIVERSITY
College of Sciences-Humanities and Letters
Associate Professor of History
1993-2004 KOÇ UNIVERSITY
College of Sciences-Humanities and Letters
Assistant Professor of History
1988-1993 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC)
Teaching Fellow in Turkish Language
1985-1986 EMBASSY OF THE TURKISH REPUBLIC IN BRUSSELS
Consultant to the Commercial Attaché
1985 (February-July) COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
Intern at the Secretariat General of the Commission
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
With Serhat Güvenç, Türkiye’nin Akdeniz Politikası (1923-1939), İstanbul: Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2014.
With Serhat Güvenç, Turkey in the Mediterranean in the Interwar Era: The Paradox of Middle Power Diplomacy and Minor Power Naval Policy. Indiana: Indiana University Turkish Studies, 2010.
Etatism and Diplomacy in Turkey, 1929-1939: Economic and Foreign Policy Strategies in an Uncertain World. Leiden: Brill, 1998.
ISI ARTICLES
With Yonca Köksal, “Turkey’s Foreign Policy towards Bulgaria and the Turkish Minority (1923-1934),” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Vol. 14, No. 2, June 2014, pp: 175-195.
With Yonca Köksal, “Teaching a State-Required Course: the History of the
Turkish Revolution,” Turkish Studies, Vol: 12, No. 3, September 2011, pp: 525-546.
With Serhat Güvenç, “Turkey and the Idea of the European Union
in the Interwar Years: 1923-1939”, Middle Eastern Studies
Vol. 45, No. 3, July 2009, pp: 425-446.
“Turkish Diplomacy in the Balkans and the Mediterranean: Opportunities and Limits for Middle Power Activism in the 1930s”, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 40, No. 3, July 2005, pp: 441-464.
“Friend or Foes: Diplomatic Relations between Italy and Turkey, 1923-1936”, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 36, No. 2, May 2004, pp: 231-252.
With Serhat Güvenç, “Atatürk’s Navy: Determinants of Turkish Naval Policy, 1923-1938”, Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 26, No.1, March 2003, pp: 1-35.
With Serhat Güvenç, “To Build a Navy with the Help of an Adversary: Italian-Turkish Naval Arms Trade, 1929-1932”, Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 38, No. 4, October 2002, pp: 143-168.
With İlter Turan, “Turkish-Greek Relations: A Key to Stability in the Balkans”, East European Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 4, Winter 1998, pp: 469-488.
NON-ISI ARTICLES
“Hatay in the Early Republican Era in Turkey” in Murat Akar &Hélène Maloigne ed. The Forgotten Kingdom. İstanbul: Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2014.
With Serhat Güvenç “Bir Cumhuriyet Kurumu Yaratmak: Atatürk’ün
Donanması, 1923-1939,” in Evren Balta-Paker ve İsmet Akça eds. Tarihsel Perspektiften Türkiye’de Güvenlik Siyaseti, Ordu ve Devlet. İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2010.
“Montreux Konferansı ve Sonrasında Çanakkale Boğazı ve Türkiye” in Mustafa Demir ed. Çanakkale Tarihi I. İstanbul: Değişim Yayınları, 2008, pp: 147-167.
“Aristide Briand’ın Avrupa Birliği Fikri ve Türkiye”, Toplumsal Tarih, No. 116, August 2003, pp: 58-63.
“Akdeniz’de Hasmane Dostlar: İki Dünya Savaşı Arasında Türkiye ve Italya”, Doğu Batı, No. 14, February-April 2001, pp: 210-218.
“Atatürk Döneminde Türkiye'nin Balkan Politikası” in Atatürk Dönemi Türk Dış Politikası. Ankara: Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi, 2000 (reprint of the article presented at The Third International Symposium on Atatürk),
pp: 275-280.
“Turkey and the Balkans: Cooperation in the Interwar and Post-Cold War Periods”, Turkish Review of Balkan Studies (Journal of the Foundation for Middle East and Balkan Studies), No. 4, Annual 1998/99, pp: 65-80.
“I. Sanayi Planı’nın Umumi Kısmı’nda Ahmed Hamdi Başar’dan İzler”, Tarih ve Toplum, Vol. 25, No. 150, June 1996, pp: 9-14.
“German Economic Domination in the Balkans in the 1930s” in Turkish Review of Balkan Studies (Journal of the Foundation for Middle East and Balkan Studies), No. 2, Annual 1994/95, pp: 135-145.
With İlter Turan, “Batı İttifakına Üye Olmanın Türk Dış Politikası Üzerinde Etkileri” in Faruk Sönmezoğlu ed. Türk Dış Politikasının Analizi. İstanbul: Der Yayınları, 1994, pp: 647-662.
CONFERENCE
PROCEEDINGS
With Serhat Güvenç, “Turkey and the Idea of Regional Integration in Europe: The Interwar Experience, 1923-1939” in 38th Congress of Asian and North African Studies, Ankara: Atatürk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu, 2012, pp: 589-594.
“20. Yüzyıl İlk Avrupa Birliği Fikri ve Türk Basını” in Mehmet Öz, ed. Cumhuriyet Döneminde Türkiye’de Tarihçilik ve Tarih Yayıncılığı Sempozyumu. Ankara : Türk Tarih Kurumu, 2011, pp: 697-703.
“Turkey in the 1930s: Internal Reforms and External Orientation”, Encounters at the Bosphorus, Turkey during WWII. Wroclaw: Executive Publisher, 2008, pp: 23-33.
“Fransız Belgelerine Göre Türkiye’nin Avrupa Politikası (1930-1939)”, The Fourth International Symposium on Atatürk. Vol. I. Ankara: Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi, 1999, pp: 217-222.
“Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'nin Balkan Devletleri ile İlişkileri (1923-1939)” in İsmail Soysal, ed. Çağdaş Türk Diplomasisi: 200 Yıllık Süreç. Ankara: Dışişleri Bakanlığı ve Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayınları, 1999, pp: 361-372.
With Haldun Gülalp, “Bilginin Evrenselliği, Farklılığın Sorunsallığı”, Sosyal Bilimleri Yeniden Düşünmek. İstanbul: Metis Yayınları, 1998, pp: 281-286.
“Atatürk Döneminde Türkiye'nin Balkan Politikası”, The Third International Symposium on Atatürk. Vol. II. Ankara: Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi, 1998, pp: 833-838.
“İki Dünya Savaşı Arasındaki Dönemde Türkiye’nin Avrupa’daki İşbirliği Arayışları”, The Fifth Military History Seminar. Ankara: Genel Kurmay Basımevi, 1996, pp: 262-266.
BOOK REVIEWS “The Question of the Sanjak of Alexandretta” by Yücel Güçlü, in Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, Vol. 27, No. 1-2, 2003.
“Divide and Fall? Bosnia in the Annals of Partition” by Radha Kumar, in Political Studies, Vol. 47, No.1, March 1999.
“Turkish Foreign Policy: Recent Developments” by Kemal Karpat,
in The International History Review, Vol. 19, 2, May 1997.
OTHER
PRESENTATIONS
“Turkish Model”: Soft Power and Public Diplomacy in Turkish Foreign Policy, 1990-2015” De-Provincializing Soft Power, Columbia University’s Global Center, Istanbul, Turkey, 11 June 2015 (organizer).
“Turkey, Reluctant Naval Activist in the Mediterranean: the case of Nyon in 1937” 8th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, ATINER, Athens, Greece, 30 March 2015.
“Pax Britannica’dan Pax Americana’ya Geçiş Döneminde Türkiye’nin İngiltere ve Amerika ile İlişkileri (1929-1947)” Uluslararası Antalya Üniversitesi, Antalya, 30 April 2014.
“Avrupa Düzeninde Lozan” Lozan Antlaşmasının 90. Yıldönümü, Marmara University, Istanbul, 20 December 2013.
“Turkey'sDiplomatic Adjustment to the Shift from Pax Britannica to
Pax Americana,1929-1952” China and Turkey in the Global 21th Century, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 8 November 2013(Invited).
“Birinci Dünya Savaşı Sonrasında Avrupa Düzeninde Lozan’ın Anlamı” Lozan’ın Anlamları, GLODEM, Koç Üniveritesi, Istanbul, 25 October 2013.
“Turkey’s Mediterranean Policies in the Second Half of the 1930s” 6th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, ATINER, Athens, Greece, 04 April 2013.
“Balkanlardaki Müslüman Türk Azınlıklar: Bulgaristan, Yunanistan ve Makedonya Örnekleri” The Seventh International Symposium on Atatürk, The Science Academy of Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia, 18 October 2011.
“Ottoman Reforms Provincialized” (chair) World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 21 July 2010.
“20. Yüzyıl İlk Avrupa Birliği Fikri ve Türk Basını” Cumhuriyet Döneminde Türkiye’de Tarihçilik ve Tarih Yayıncılığı Sempozyumu, Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Ankara, Turkey, 18-20 March 2010.
“Turkey’s perception of Western Europe during the Early Republican Period” Imagining the West, Koç University and Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 11 December 2010.
“Imagining the West in Turkey in the 1920s and 1930s” Imagining
the West, Koç University and Norwegian University of Science & Technology, İstanbul, Turkey, 22 May 2009 (organizer).
“Turkey and Greece: International Affairs in the Interwar Period” 7th Annual International Conference on Politics and International Affairs, ATINER, Athens, Greece, 22-25 June 2009.
“Turkey in the Middle of Great Power Rivalry in the Mediterranean in the 1930s” International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, ATINER, Athens, Greece, 20-23 March 2008.
“Turkey in the 1930s: Internal Reforms and External Orientation” Encounters at the Bosphorus, Kreisau Initiative and Willy Brand Center, Kyzysowa, Poland, September 28-30, 2007 (Invited).
With Serhat Güvenç, “Turkey and the Idea of Regional Integrationin Europe: The Interwar Experience, 1923-1939” Turkey and the Idea of Regional Integration in Europe: The Interwar Experience,1923-1939, 38th Congress of Asian and North African Studies, Ankara, Turkey, September 10-15, 2007.
“The Idea of European Union and Turkey in the Interwar Years 1923-1939” Democracy versus Authoritarianism, Warsaw East European Conference, Warsaw, Poland, July15-18, 2007.
“İki Dünya Savaşı Arasında Türkiye ve İtalya” Çağdaş Türkiye Tarihi Seminerleri, Osmanlı Bankası Müzesi, İstanbul, Turkey, November 18, 2006 (Invited).
With Serhat Güvenç, “A Middle Power in the Making: Turkish Diplomacy and Naval Policy in the Balkans and Mediterranean between the two World Wars” 21st Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA, May 12th -13th, 2006.
With Serhat Güvenç, “Middle Power Activism: The Case of Turkey in the Mediterranean between the Two World Wars,” Columbia University Seminar on Ottoman and Turkish Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, March 24, 2006 (Invited).
“Turkish-Italian Relations in the 1920s and 1930s”, The European Studies Alliance, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, February 15, 2006 (Invited).
“Turkish Diplomacy in the Mediterranean in the Interwar Period (1919-1939)”, Fourteenth Annual World History Association Conference, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco, June 27-29, 2005.
“İki Savaş Arası Türk-İtalyan İlişkileri” Italya ve Türkiye: İkili İlişkilerden Avrupa Birliğine, Italian Cultural Center, Yıldız Üniversitesi, İstanbul, Turkey, May 31, 2005 (Invited).
“İki Dünya Savaşı Arası Türk Dış Politikası ve İtalya Faktörü”, Çağdaş Türkiye Tarihi Seminerleri, Osmanlı Bankası Müzesi, İstanbul, Turkey, March 19, 2005 (Invited).
“Turkey and Europe”, Italian-Turkish Forum, Center for Strategic Research (SAM) and Rivista Italiana di Geopolitica (LIMES), Rome, Italy, November 24-26, 2004 (Invited).
“The Importance of the Balkan Understanding and its Role to the Historic Events In South Eastern Europe until the Second World War”, Balkan Understanding – History and Present, Titulescu House, Bucharest, Romania, September 6, 2004.
“Regionalism at the Time of Nation-State Formation: the Turkish Response to the Balkan and European Federations”, Nationalities and Pluralism from Old to New Worlds, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland, July 18-21, 2004.
“An Historicist Perspective on the EU-Turkish Relations”, Turkey: A Bridge, or a Breach, to the European Union, Maynouth University, Dublin, Ireland, May 7, 2004 (Invited).
“1930’lardan Günümüze Avrupa Birliği ve Türkiye: Süreklilik ve Değişim”, METU Conference on International Relations, Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Ankara, Turkey, June 23-25, 2003.
“Promoting International Networks in the Academic Field”, Workshop and Summer Intensive Course, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece, June 3-4, 2003.
With Yonca Köksal, “Innovation in Teaching a State Controlled Course: History of the Turkish Revolution”, International Conference on Innovation in Higher Education, Iowa State University, Kiev, Ukraine, May 17, 2003 (Invited).
“Turkey and the Great Power Game in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1928-1937”, First World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, September 8-12, 2002.
“Construire la Marine Républicaine en Turquie”, Le Fait Militaire dans les Etats et les Sociétés du Sud-Est Européen (XVIII-XX Siecles), Zadar University, Zadar, Croatia, September 13-15, 2001.
“İkinci Dünya Savaşı Arifesinde Akdeniz’de Avrupa Devletleri Arasında Rekabet ve Türkiye”, Atatürk ve Parlamenter Sistem, Manas University, Bishkek, Kırgyzistan, May 15, 2001 (Invited).
Les Balkans, La Russie et La Turquie, Institut Français des Etudes Anatoliennes, Istanbul, Turkey, April 16, 2001 (Invited Moderator)
With Serhat Güvenç, “Italy and Turkey in Naval Arms Race in the Mediterranean in the Interwar Years”, 36th Congress of Asian and North African Studies, Montréal, Canada, August 27-September 2, 2000.
“Cooperation and Globalization in the Balkans in the 1930s and 1990s”, Nationalism and Peace in the Balkans, AEGEE Peace Academy Conference, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, October 8-11, 1999 (Invited).
“Les Nouvelles Orientations de la Politique Etrangère de la Turquie” Turquie: La Guerre des Urnes a-t-elle eu Lieu?, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (with the support of Turkish Foreign Ministry), Paris, France, April 19, 1999 (Invited).
“İnkilap Tarihi Dersinin Dış İlişkiler Boyutları”, Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkilap Tarihi Dersi Yöntem Semineri, T.C. Yükseköğretim Kurulu Başkanlığı, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, İstanbul, Turkey, April 14-15, 1999 (Invited).
“The Ottoman Empire and Italy: The Two Lesser Powers in the First World War”, Workshop on The Ottoman Empire during the First World War, Koç University, İstanbul, Turkey, July 21-23, 1998.
“Images and Stereotypes”, Commentator in the workshop on Balkan Cooperation: Necessity or Illusion, The Open Society Institute Macedonia, Aspen Institute Berlin, Council of Europe, European Cultural Foundation, and King Baudouin Foundation, Ohrid, Macedonia, March 19-21, 1998 (Invited).
“Turkish-Italian Relations in the Interwar Period”, Middle Eastern Studies Association, San Francisco, USA, November 22-24, 1997.
“Early Center-Periphery Relations in the Balkans”, 35th Congress
of Asian and North African Studies, Budapest, Hungary, July 7-12, 1997.
“The Economic Problems”, Chair in the workshop on Towards Stability on the Balkan Peninsula, Free and Democratic Bulgaria Foundation, Aspen Institute Berlin, Council of Europe, European Cultural Foundation, and King Baudouin Foundation, Sophia, Bulgaria, June 6-8, 1997 (Invited).
“Turkish Balkan Policy”, Middle Eastern Studies Association, Washington D.C., USA, December 7-9, 1995.
“Türk-Yunan İlişkileri”, (Turkish-Greek Relations) Guest Lecturer for the European Association of Turkish Academics, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, September 7, 1995.