FASS Staff Profile

DR DUNYA D. CAKIR
LECTURER
DEPARTMENT of POLITICAL SCIENCE

Appointment:
LECTURER
Office:
AS 04-42
Email:
polldd@nus.edu.sg
Tel:
6516 6229
Fax:
Homepage:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/polldd/
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Brief Introduction

I received my BA in Political Science from Bogazici University, Istanbul in 2005, and my PhD in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2012. Before joining NUS, I worked at Scripps College as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations. I came to NUS in 2013 to begin a postdoctoral fellowship and work on my book manuscript, “Governing Piety: Islam, Empire and Moderation in Late Modernity”. In this project, I explore the ways in which transnational discourses on Islam after 9/11 implicate local forms of Islamist activism in contemporary Turkey.


Teaching Areas

I have taught several courses in comparative politics, political theory, Middle East politics, and women's politics. In the broader world of CP, I have taught Introduction to Comparative Politics, Middle East Politics, Women and Politics, Gender Politics in the Middle East, State and Society, and Citizenship and Politics of Belonging. In political theory, I have taught or am currently teaching Contemporary Political Theory, Islamic Political Thought and Movements, Orientalism and Femininity, and Comparative Political Theory.


Research Interests

Democracy, civil society, and piety politics in the Middle East; Islam and gender activism in Turkey; contemporary Muslim political thought; comparative political theory; ethnography and interpretive methods; critical theory and postcolonial thought.


Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • "The Social Life of Academic Discourse: Reflections on the Analysis of Piety Politics," International Journal of Middle East Studies 49 (2017): 395-415.
  • "Islamist Texts in Practice: Commemorating Qutb in Turkey before and after the Arab Spring," The Muslim World 105, no. 4 (2015): 540-560.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  • “The Onto-Politics of Moderation: Studying Islamist Politics and Democracy in the Middle East” in Tugrul Keskin (ed.) Neo-Orientalism, American Hegemony and Academia after September 11 (Brill, forthcoming).

Other Information

Awards and Honors:

Middle East Research Competition Dissertation Research Grant, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Sociales et Economiques and the Ford Foundation (2010-2011)

New Europe College Fellowship, Bucharest, Romania. Fellow in residence (2010-2011)

Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship. Social Science Research Council (2008)

Superior Achievement Fellowship, Boğaziçi University Alumni Association (2001-2005)


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