Saygun Gökarıksel

CURRICULUM VITAE

SAYGUN GÖKARIKSEL, February 2016
Languages: Turkish, English, Polish, Russian

Address: Sociology Department, Boğaziçi University, Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey

Phone: (office): 90-212 358 7071

E-mail: [e-mail] and [e-mail]

Academic qualifications: BA (Boğaziçi University), MA (Jagiellonian University), PhD (The Graduate Center of the City University of New York)
Education

2005-2015 PhD, Department of Anthropology, City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York.

Dissertation Title: “Of Truths, Secrets, and Loyalties: Political Belonging and

State Building in Poland after State Socialism." Defended in September 2015.

Dissertation Committee: Katherine Verdery, Talal Asad, Vincent Crapanzano,

and Sally Engle Merry

2002-2004 MA, Jagiellonian University, Center for European Studies, Kraków, Poland,

1995-2001 BA, Political Science and International Relations, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Work and Teaching experience
2016- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul

2011-2012 Adjunct Lecturer, Dept. of Anthropology, Queens College, NY

2006-2009 Graduate Teaching Fellow, Dept. of Anthropology, Lehman College, NY
Grants and Fellowships

2014-2015 Research Assistant at the Advanced Research Collaborative, City University

of New York, Graduate Center

2014-2015 Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellow at the Committee for the Study of

Religion, City University of New York, Graduate Center

2013-2014 Dissertation Fellowship, City University of New York, Graduate Center

2013-2014 The Ralph Bunche Dissertation Fellowship Award, City

University of New York, Graduate Center

2013-2014 American Council of Learned Societies, Program in East Europe Studies,

Dissertation Fellowship (shortlisted)

2013 Research Fellow at the New Europe College: Insitute for Advanced Study,

Bucharest

2012-2013 Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, City University of New York, Graduate Center

2012-2013 Writing across Curriculum Fellow at Queens College, City University of

New York

2010-2011 The National Science Foundation for Doctoral Dissertation Research

2009-2010 The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Doctoral Dissertation Research

2008 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Pre-Dissertation Award, Council for

European Studies at Columbia University

2005-2009 Chancellor’s Fellowship and Graduate Teaching Fellowship, City

University of New York, Graduate Center

Academic Publications
-- “Facing History: Sovereignty and the Spectacles of Justice, Secrecy and Violence in Poland’s Capitalist Democracy” (in preparation, to be submitted to Comparative Studies in Society and History)
-- “The Two Bodies of the Accused” (in preparation, to be submitted to Public Culture)
--"Labor, Human Rights, and Capitalist Democratization in the East of Europe," (in preparation, to be submitted to Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism and Development at the request of the editor-in-chief)
-- “Polonya Komünist Istihbarat Teskilatı Belgeleriyle Bir Hayat Öyküsü: Münevver Andaç (A Life Story in the Polish Communist Secret Service Documents: Münevver Andaç),” in preparation for Toplumsal Tarih (Social History)
-- “Legal Frames of Memory. Transitional Justice in Central and Eastern Europe,” H-SOZ-U-KULT, 29.04.2014 (review essay, on-line available)
--“In the Free Market of Names: Polish Secret Service Archives and Authoritarian Populism,” Anthropology of East Europe Review, Fall 2013, 30-45
-- “Gezi Resistance and Forums,” in Anuari Del Conflicta Social. Barcelona: Revistes Cientifigues de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2013, 152-157
-- “A Minor Story, the Global History: Being ‘Loyal to the Strangers’ of the Polish Communist Secret Service Archives,” Studia Sociologia (special issue on politics of memory), LVI, 2, December 2011, 7-18.
--“Afterlife: The Communist Secret Service Files in East Central Europe (Öteki Hayat: Orta Dogu Avrupa’da Komünist Istihbarat Dosyaları),” in Basak Ertür ed. Conspiracy, Sharjah: Sharjah Art Foundation, 2011, 45-53
--“Islam z Zachodem, dla Zachodu (Islam with the West, for the West)”, Znak, February 2011, 10-18
-- Co-edited with Łukasz Tischner, Special Issue of Znak, “Europa a Turecki Eksperyment (Europe and the Turkish Experiment),” February 2011

Other Professional Experience
Editorial Board, Reviews & Critical Commentary, Council for European Studies at

Columbia University (June 2013-September 2014)

Co-editor of an on-line forum on popular protests and uprisings in Europe:

“Enough! – Dispatches from Researchers Studying Europe’s Exploding Social

Movements”: http://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/critcom/enough-dispatches-from-researchers-studying-europes-exploding-social-movements/
Member: American Anthropological Association, Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, American Ethnological Society, Soyuz: Postsocialist Cultural Studies

Critical Commentary and Report
-- “Politics outside the Box: A Brief Note on the Local Election in Turkey,” LeftEast, 10 April 2014

http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/politics-outside-the-box-local-election-in-turkey/
-- “Speaking of Resistance” published on five different web-sites with updates including

Res Publica Nowa, LeftEast, Jadaliyya, Lewica.pl, Occupy.com (12 August 2013):

http://www.occupy.com/article/speaking-resistance-gezi-park-forums-have-spread-across-turkey
-- “History of the Future: Reflections on the Uprising in Turkey,” LeftEast, 10 June 2013

http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/history-of-the-future-reflections-on-the-uprising-in-turkey/

Selected Academic Paper Presentations/Conference Activities
-- Co-organized the panel “The Actant Archive: On Surveillance, Subversion and Self-Fashioning” and presented the paper “Disappearing Archives, Enduring Suspicions: Politics of Truth-Making and Precarity in Poland” at American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Denver, 17-22 November 2015. See the review essay of the panel by the Association of Political and Legal Anthropology:

http://politicalandlegalanthro.org/2015/09/22/aaa-2015-preview-the-actant-archive-on-surveillance-subversion-and-self-fashioning/
-- Co-organized the panel, “Trial by Fire: Truth, Violence, and Accountability” and presented the paper, “Naming the Communist Agent: Suspicion, Truth, and Surveillance Files in Trial” at American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. 3-7 December 2014
-- “Two Bodies of the Accused: Ethics of Knowledge and Memory and the Polish Secret Service Files,” presented at European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity, Legal Frames of Memory: Transitional Justice in Central and Eastern Europe, Warsaw, December 2013
-- “Facing History after State Socialism: Spectacles of Secrecy, Transparency, and Violence in Poland,” presented at Hrant Dink Memorial Workshop and Sabanci University, Coming to Terms with War, Genocide, and Political Violence, Istanbul, 31 May-2 June 2013
-- Co-organized the panel “Law, Violence, and Truth in the Age of Democratization and Human Rights” at the American Ethnological Society and Association of Political and Legal Anthropology, Chicago, April 2013
--“Seeking Truth in Transparency: Facing History and Violence in ‘Postsocialist’ Poland,” presented at the American Ethnological Society and Association of Political and Legal Anthropology, Chicago, April 2013
-- “In the Free Market of Names: Neoliberal Politics of History and Authoritarian Populism in Poland,” presented at SOYUZ, Columbia University, March 2013
-- Chaired the panel “The Emergent Post-Communist Left in Eastern Europe and Beyond: Practices, Ideologies, Groups,” American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 2012
-- “In the Free Market of Names: Neoliberal Politics of History and Scandalous Revelations from the Polish Communist Secret Service Archives,” presented at American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 2012
-- “Too Much to Know, Too Little to Remember: Staging the Accused of Collaboration with the Polish Communist Secret Service” paper presented at the New School for Social Research, Memory Conference, New York, April 2012
-- “What the File does not know,” presented at the Graduate Student Conference of Anthropology Department, Johns Hopkins University, April 2012
-- Co-organized the panel “Secret Files, Public Revelations: Exploring the Social Lives of the Communist Secret Service Archives,” at the 17^th Annual Association for the Study of Nationalities World Convention, Columbia University, The Wages of Nationhood: Conflicts, Compromises and Costs, New York, April 2012