Başak Can
Koc University
Department of Sociology
Phone: (212) 338 10 46;
Education
2008-2014PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology, The University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title:State-making, evidence-making, and claim-making: Enforced disappearances and torture in the post-1980 Turkey. (Supervised by Prof. Philippe Bourgois)
2004-2008MA in Sociology, Boğaziçi University
Thesis Title:“Subjectivities of Women Garment Workers in Gazi Neighborhood.”
1998-2004 - BA in Economics, Boğaziçi University
Academic Publications
2015 Book Review. Banu Bargu. Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014, xx + 480 pages. New Perspectives on Turkey.
2015Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and State Violence: Medical Documentation of Torture in Turkey.Medical Anthropology Quarterly. (Accepted - Forthcoming)
2015Criminalization of Physicians and Delegitimization of State Violence During the Gezi Riots. Medical Anthropology. (Revise and resubmit)
2006 Book Review (Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest, Anne McClintock. London: Routledge, 1995, 450p) The Graduate Journal of Historical Studies in Turkey, Istanbul: Bogazici University. Available at:
Book Chapters
2015 Çalışma, beden ve kadınlık: İstanbul’da konfeksiyon atölyelerinde çalışan kadınların deneyimleri. Risk Altındaki Kadın Grupları.Ankara Üniversitesi(Forthcoming)
Non-academic Publications
2013 Yeni Bir Tanıklık Rejimi Kurulurken.
2013 Barış Anneleri. Toplum ve Kuram: Hakikat ve Adaletin İzinde Doksanları Aramak.9.
Invited Lectures and Seminars
“Regime of Denial and Forensic Epistemologies in Cases of Torture in Post-1980 Turkey.”The Programme on Contemporary Turkish Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, February 18, 2015.
“Forensic Witnessing.” 10th Forensic Medicine Congress, Istanbul, November 22-24, 2012.
Other Conference Presentations
“Capitalist work as an embodied experience: the case of women garment workers in Istanbul.” Reproductive Health Working Group Workshop Meeting. Beirut. June, 6.2015.
“Capitalist work as a gendered experience: Methodological challenges of bodies in feminist ethnographies work.” Japan Anthropology Workshop Meeting, İstanbul. September 3, 2015.
“Medico-Legal Documents in the Making of the State: Turkish Case”. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting.San Francisco, November 20, 2012.
“Re-construction of Turkish Identity and the metadiscourses on the Kurdish Language” paper presented at “Semiotic Approaches to Mass Mediated Racial and Racist Discourses” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, December 5, 2009.
Teaching Experience
Summer 2013 Instructor, Bogazici University, Istanbul
Social Anthropology
2009-2011Teaching Assistant, The University of Pennsylvania
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, World Cultures
2006-2008 Teaching Assistant, Bogazici University, Istanbul
Power and Inequality, Qualitative Research Methods, Urban Sociology
Research Experience
2011 - 2013 Dissertation Fieldwork Research, Istanbul, Turkey
Summer 2009 and 2010Preliminary Dissertation Fieldwork Research, Istanbul, Turkey
2007Project Assistant, Istanbul, Turkey
Research Title: Women’s Rights at Work funded by Heinrich Böll Foundation
2007 MA Field Research Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
2006Research Co-coordinator, Istanbul, Turkey
Research Title: “The Politics of Archives in Turkey” funded by Scientific Research Projects at Bogazici University
Awards, Grants and Fellowships
2011 Wenner-Gren Foundation, Dissertation Fieldwork Grant ($19,000)
2010 Dissertation Research Fellowship - University of Pennsylvania ($3,500)
2009 Departmental Field Fund - University of Pennsylvania ($3,000)
2008-2013 Benjamin Franklin Fellowship - University of Pennsylvania ($20,000/year)
Languages
Native speaker of Turkish;fluent in English
References
Prof. Philippe Bourgois
Prof. Adriana Petryna
Prof. Deborah Thomas