MARIA CHIARA CANTELMO

Department of Political Science

Faculty of Political Science, Sociology and Communication Science

Sapienza University, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome

PhD Research / 2015-present
Department of Political Science, Sapienza University

PhD in Political Studies, with a research project about Turkey’s contemporary history, entitled The fall of Kemalism and the new face of political Islam. Twenty crucial years in Turkey’s history: 1980-2002.

Visiting scholar spring 2017

Department of Turkish Studies, Leiden University

Guest researcher at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (Department of Turkish Studies), under the supervision of Prof Erik J. Zürcher.

EDUCATION
MA Journalism and Publishing (Sapienza University) / 2010-2013
Thesis in Contemporary history about the Kurdish issue.
BA Humanities (Sapienza University) / 2007-2010
AWARDS
PhD Scholarship / 2015-2018
Erasmus Scholarship
(Political Science and International Relations dept., 2011-2012
Yildiz Technical University – Istanbul)

RELEVANT SKILLS & COURSES

  • Certificate in Advanced English (level C2, University of Cambridge).
  • Diploma in Turkish language (level C1, Tömer School of Ankara University).
  • Diploma in French language studies (level B1, French Ministry of Education).
  • ECDL certification (AICA).
  • DITALS certification of competence in teaching Italian as a foreign language (Siena University).
  • Training course on refugees and migrants (Sapienza University).
  • Editor for both amateur and academic magazines of articles about Turkish culture and politics.

REFEREES

Prof Augusto D’Angelo Prof Dr Alev Özkazanç

Associate ProfessorRetired Member of Academic Staff

Dept. Political Sciences, Sapienza Univ.Dept. Political Science and

Public Administration, Ankara Univ.

PUBLICATIONS AND PROJECTS

a)The fall of Kemalism and the new face of political Islam. Twenty crucial years in Turkey’s history (1980-2002), «Athens Journal of History» 4:1 (2018), 37-53.

b)The Turks is us. A narrative of Alterity in the history of European identity, «Europea» 2:1(2017), 167-188.

c)Turkish political Islam facing the coup d’état: from Kemalist ideology to Akp’s era, «Afriche e Orienti» 19:1 (2017), 104-116.

d)The Golden Generation from a religious community to the coup d’état: a historical-political profile of Fethullah Gülen’s movement, to appear in «Studi storici».

e)Articles appeared in the website of the Centre for the study of contemporary Islam:

The original deficiency of Turkish revolution (July 2017).

Is Turkey becoming an Islamic Leviathan? (June 2017).

The emergency state and the continuous coup regime in Turkey (May 2017).

Erdoğan’s Turkey enters a new phase far from democracy (April 2017).

f)Refugees or freedom? The responsibilities of Europe in the Syrian refugees crisis in Turkey, «Erice Journal of Politics Peace and Human Rights» n° 1 (August 2016), 40-45.

g)The Kurdish issue in Turkish daily press, «Eurostudium 3w» n° 27 (April-June 2013), 1-190.

h)European identity and the fear of Turks. From the fall of Constantinople to the battle of Lepanto (1453-1571), to appear in F. Ambrosi, C. Antonucci, I. Xoxa, A vocabulary of fear in Europe.

i)M. Chiara Cantelmo, G. Cantarale, G. Lella, 2023 objectives. Turkey’s thorny path towards Europe (research project funded by Sapienza University).

OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

a)Editor of the Turkey section for the European Documentation Centre “Altiero Spinelli” (Rome).

b)Speaker at the 4th International Conference on Turkey and Turkish studies, organised by Atiner Institute, 19-22 June 2017 (Athens).

c)Lecturer at the Department of Political Science (Sapienza).

d)Member of SeSaMo (Society of Studies on Middle East).

e)Member of Sissco (Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History).