Ayşe Gül Altınay 
Education
Ph.D in Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, 2001
Women’s Studies Certificate, Duke University, 1997
B.A. in Political Science and International Relations & Sociology, Boğaziçi University, 1994
Academic Positions
Professor of Anthropology, Sabancı University, since 2019
Director, SU Gender (Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence), 2016-2019
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Sabancı University, 2013-2018
Marie Jahoda Visiting Chair in International Gender Studies, Ruhr University-Bochum, 2012
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Sabancı University, 2001-2013
Awards, Grants, Fellowships
The Graduate School’s Few-Glasson Alumni Society Inductee, Duke University, 2022
European Union Horizon 2020 ACCTING (AdvanCing behavioural Change Through an INclusive Green deal) Principal Investigator for Sabancı University, Coordinator: European Science Foundation, 2022-2025
European Union Horizon 2020 RESISTIRE (RESpondIng to outbreaks through co-creaTIve sustainable inclusive equality stRatEgies) Principal Investigator for Sabancı University, Coordinator: European Science Foundation, 2021-2023
European Union Horizon 2020 SwafS (Science with and for Society) GEARING-Roles (Gender Equality Actions in Research Institutions to traNsform Gender Roles) Co-Principal Investigator for Sabancı University (with Zeynep Gülru Göker), Coordinator: University of Deusto, 2019-2022
Üstün Ergüder Research Award, Boğaziçi University, Department of Political Science and International Relations, 2019
Visiting Faculty Fellow, Member of Working Group Women Mobilizing Memory, Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University, 2014-2016
Co-Coordinator (with Andrea Petö, Central European University), Gendered Memories of War and Political Violence, CEU-Sabancı Joint Academic Initiative, 2011-2015
PEN Duygu Asena Award (with Yeşim Arat) for Türkiye’de Kadına Yönelik Şiddet (Violence Against Women in Turkey), 2008
Principal Researcher, “Redefining ‘Women’s Place’ in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolian: The Case of KA-MER,” TÜBİTAK (Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council) 2008 National Young Researcher Career Development Award, 2007-2008
Co-Researcher (with Yeşim Arat, Boğaziçi University), “Gender-based violence: Analyzing the problem and the struggle against it” TÜBİTAK Research Award, 2006-2007
Research Fellow, Duke University, John Hope Franklin Seminars for Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, Distinguished Teaching Fellowship, 2000
Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 1999
Research Fellow, Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Foundation International Peace and Security Fellowship, 1998-1999
Visiting Scholar, Institute for War and Peace Studies and the Middle East Institute, Columbia University, New York, 1998
Research Fellow, Duke University, Advanced International Studies Fellowship, 1997
Student Fellow, Duke University, Graduate School Fellowship, 1994-1997
Publications
Book
The Myth of the Military-Nation: Militarism, Gender and Education in Turkey, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (2004, paperback September 2005)
Co-Authored Books
Mirroring Lives Across the Armenian-Turkish Divide: Conversations on Gender, Race and Genocide (with Arlene Avakian and Fethiye Çetin), Manuscript in progress.
The Grandchildren: The Hidden Legacy of Lost Armenians in Turkey (with Fethiye Çetin), trans. Maureen Freely, NJ: Transactions, 2014 (Expanded Edition of Torunlar in English) – Republished in paperback, hardcover and as e-book by Routledge, 2017
Torunlar (with Fethiye Çetin), İstanbul: Metis , 2009, 2nd edition 2010
French: Les Petits-enfants, trans. Célin Vuraler, Arles: Actes Sud, 2011.
Armenian: Torner, trans. Lilit Gasparyan and Tigran Mets Hratarakchatun, Yerevan: Targqnutyun, 2011.
Violence Against Women in Turkey: A Nationwide Survey (with Yeşim Arat), İstanbul: Punto, 2009 (Revised and abridged English translation of Türkiye’de Kadına Yönelik Şiddet)
işte böyle güzelim… (with Hülya Adak, Esin Düzel and Nilgün Bayraktar) İstanbul: Sel, 2008, 4th edition: 2016
German: So Ist Das Meine Schöne: Türkische frauen erzählen von frausein, begehren und liebe, Berlin: Orlanda Frauenverlag, 2009.
Türkiye’de Kadına Yönelik Şiddet (with Yeşim Arat) İstanbul: Punto, 2007 (2008 PEN Duygu Asena Award)
Edited and Co-Edited Books / Journal Issues
“Transformative Activism: Feminist and Queer Imaginaries” Special Issue (co-edited with Andrea Pető). European Journal of Women’s Studies, 29(4), Fall 2022.
Women Mobilizing Memory (co-edited with Maria Jose Contreras, Jean Howard, Marianne Hirsch, Banu Karaca, and Alisa Solomon). New York: Columbia University Press, 2019
Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories: Feminist Conversations on War, Genocide and Political Violence (co-edited with Andrea Pető). London: Routledge, 2016
“Gendering Genocide” Special Issue (with Andrea Pető). European Journal of Women’s Studies, Fall, 22(4), 2015
“Open Forum: Feminist Questions at the Centennial of the First World War” (with Andrea Pető). European Journal of Women’s Studies, Summer, 21(3): 293-312, 2014
Ebru: Kültürel Çeşitlilik Üzerine Yansımalar, Attila Durak, Istanbul: Metis, 2007
English: Ebru: Reflections of Cultural Diversity in Turkey, Attila Durak, Istanbul: Metis, 2007
French: Ebru: Reflets de la diversité culturelle en Turquie, Attila Durak, Arles: Acted Sud, 2009.
Vatan-Millet-Kadınlar, İstanbul: İletişim, 2000, 6th ed., 2016
Articles and Book Chapters (Selection – English)
Gender, Memory, War
“Gendered Silences, Gendered Memories: New Memory Work on Islamized Armenians in Turkey” in Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Survey (ed. Amy E. Randall). Second Edition. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 312-331 (2022)
“Curious Steps: Mobilizing Memory through Collective Walking and Storytelling in Istanbul” (with Bürge Abiral, Dilara Çalışkan and Armanc Yıldız) in Women Mobilizing Memory (eds. Ayşe Gül Altınay, Maria Jose Contreras, Jean Howard, Marianne Hirsch, Banu Karaca, and Alisa Solomon). New York: Columbia University Press, 84-104 (2019)
“Introduction – Uncomfortable Connections: Gender, Memory, War” (with Andrea Petö) in Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories: Feminist Conversations on War, Genocide and Political Violence, eds. A. Altınay and A. Petö, Feminist Imagination: Europe and Beyond Series, London: Routledge, pp. 1-2 (2016) Open Access
“Introduction – Europe and the Century of Genocides: New Directions in the Feminist Theorizing of Genocide” (with Andrea Petö) European Journal of Women’s Studies, Gendering Genocide Special Issue, 22(4): 379-385 (2015)
“Feminist Challenges at the Centennial of the First World War” European Journal of Women’s Studies, 21(3): 293-294 (2014)
“Centennial Challenges: Denationalizing and Gendering Histories of War and Genocide” European Journal of Women’s Studies, 21(3):307-312 (2014)
“Gendered Silences, Gendered Memories: New Memory Work on Islamized Armenians in Turkey” Eurozine, 12.02.2014 (online)
“Unraveling Layers of Silencing: Converted Armenian Survivors of the 1915 Catastrophe” (with Yektan Türkyılmaz) in Untold Histories of the Middle East: Recovering Voices from the 19th and 20th Centuries, eds. Amy Singer, Christoph Neumann and Selcuk Aksin Somel. London: Routledge, pp.25-53 (2010)
Feminist Politics
“Feminist+ Solidarity as Transformative Politics” (with Andrea Petö) European Journal of Women’s Studies, 29(4): 477-488 (2022)
“A Cross-Disciplinary Roundtable on the Feminist Politics of Translation” (with Richa Nagar, Kathy Davis, Judith Butler, Ana Louise Keating, Claudia de Lima Costa, Sonia E. Alvarez, edited by Olga Costra and Emek Ergun) in Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives, eds. O. Costra and E. Ergun. London: Routledge, 111-135 (2017)
“Kamer: A Women’s Center and an Experiment in Cultivating Cosmopolitan Norms” (with Yeşim Arat) Women’s Studies International Forum, vol.49: 12-19 (2015)
“Guest Editors’ Introduction: At the Crossroads of Gender and Ethnicity: Moving Beyond the National Imaginaire” (with Hülya Adak) Dossier on Gender, Ethnicity and the Nation-State, New Perspectives on Turkey 42 (Spring):9-30 (2010)
“Talking and Writing Our Sexuality: Feminist Activism on Virginity and Virginity Tests in Turkey” in Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies, ed. Pınar İlkkaracan. Istanbul: Women for Women’s Human Rights (WWHR)-New Ways, pp.403-411 (2000)
(Anti)Militarism
“Undoing Academic Cultures of Militarism: Turkey and Beyond” Current Anthropology, Volume 60, Supplement 19, February, 15-25. DOI: 10.1086/700182 (2019)
“Refusing to identify as obedient wives, sacrificing mothers and proud warriors” in Conscientious Objection: Resisting Militarized Society, Özgür Heval Çınar and Coşkun Üsterci. London: Zed Books, pp.88-104 (2009)
“Opposition to the US Military Presence in Turkey in the Context of the Iraq War” (with Amy Holmes) in The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against US Military Posts, Catherine A. Lutz. London: Pluto Press, pp.270-298 (2009)
“Militarism and the Culture of Violence” in World Tribunal on Iraq: Making the Case Against War, ed. Müge Gürsoy Sökmen. New York: Olive Branch Press, pp.364-370 (2008)
“Educating Little Soldiers and Little Ayşes: Militarised and Gendered Citizenship in Turkish Textbooks” (with Tuba Kancı) in Education in ‘Multicultural’ Societies: Turkish and Swedish Perspectives, eds. Marie Carlson, Annika Rabo and Fatma Gök. Transactions, vol.18. Istanbul: Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul and I.B. Tauris, pp. 51-70 (2007)
“Who is a (good) Turk? The Ideal Student in Textbooks” in How are We Educated? April 17-18, 2004, Istanbul, International Symposium on Human Rights Education and Textbook Research Conference Proceedings, eds. Deniz Tarba Ceylan and Gürol Irzık. Istanbul: The History Foundation of Turkey, pp.88-95 (2005)
“Human Rights or Militarist Ideals? Teaching national security in high schools” in Human Rights Issues in Textbooks: The Turkish Case, eds. Deniz Tarba Ceylan and Gürol Irzık. Istanbul: The History Foundation of Turkey, pp.76-90 (2004)
“Military. Women’s Participation in: Turkey” Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Volume II, ed. Suad Joseph, pp. 315-316. Leiden: Brill (2004)
Exhibitions
Mobilizing Memory – Vienna (curated by Işın Önol, co-curated by Ayşe Gül Altınay), Center for the Study of Difference, Columbia Global Centers – Turkey, Kuntshalle Exnergasse joint project, Kuntshalle Exnergasse, Vienna, 19 March – 3 April 2015.
Mobilizing Memory: Women Witnessing (co-curated with Işın Önol), Columbia University Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia Global Centers – Turkey, Sabancı University Gender Forum, and DEPO Istanbul joint project, DEPO Istanbul, 5 September – 3 October 2014.