METU Department of

 


 

Recep Boztemur: Associate Professor of History

Social Sciences Building, room #Z32 +90(312)210-3150  Boztemur@metu.edu.tr

Dr. Recep Boztemur is teaching Historical Methodology, World History an the History of the Middle East.

He received his BA from the Political Sciences Faculty of the Ankara University, his M.S. from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the Middle East Technical University, and his PhD from the Middle East Centre at the University of Utah, at Salt Lake City.

Dr. Boztemur has publications in historical methodology, and Middle Eastern and European history.

 
 
CURRICULUM VITAE
 

EDUCATION

 

BS                              :           University of  Ankara, Faculty of Political Sciences, 1984

MS                              :           METU Faculty of Administrative Sciences, 1989 

Masters Thesis          :           "Republican Ideology of the New Turkish State As a Dimension

                                                of Political Modernization: A Study on the Constitutional

                                               Documents, 1919-1924"

 

Ph.D.                          :           University of Utah, Middle East Center, Utah,  U.S.A., 1997

 

Ph.D. Dissertation      :           "State-Making and Nation-Building in Turkey: A Study of the

                                               Historical Relation between the Capitalist Development and the

                                               Establishment of the Modern Nation-State"

 

 

ACADEMIC WORK

 

RESEARCH ASSISTANT      : METU Department of History, 1986 - 1999

INSTRUCTOR                       : METU Department of History, 1999 - 2002

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR   : METU Department of History, 2002 – 2006

 

 

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

 

UNDERGRADUATE ADVISOR         :        METU Department of History, 1986-1990

GRADUATE ADVISOR                      :        METU Department of History, 1996-2003

ASSISTANT CHAIR                           :        METU Department of History, 2001-2005

ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD MEMBER :     METU Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 2002-2005

CHAIR                                    :                    METU Middle East Studies Graduate Program 2003-Present

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

ARTICLES

·           “Özel Girişimciliğin Gelişiminde Devletin Rolü: Türkiye İş Bankası Örneği”, Tarih Araştırmaları Dergisi, Vol. XVI, N. 27 (1995), pp. 64-79

·  “Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda Devlet-Toplum İlişkileri: Araştırma Yöntemlerinde ve Kuramsal Yaklaşımlarda Tek-Yanlılık”, OTAM (Osmanlı Tarihi Araştırma Merkezi Dergisi), Vol. 9 (1998), pp. 79-110.

·       “Ondokuzuncu Yüzyılda Kapitalist Dünya Ekonomisi ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu”, Osmanlı,  Vol.  3 Ekonomi, eds. Kemal Çiçek, Cem Oğuz, Ankara: Yeni Türkiye Yayınları, 1999, pp. 383-388.

·        “The Impact of the Nineteenth-Century Capitalist World-Economy on the Formation of the Modern State in the Ottoman Empire”, The Great Ottoman-Turkish Civilization, Vol. 2, ed. by Kemal Çiçek, Ankara: Yeni Türkiye Yayınları, 1999, pp. 168-174.

·       “Avrupa’nın Uzun Ondokuzuncu Yüzyılı”, Doğu Batı, Vol. 4, No. 14 (Feb.-Apr. 2001), pp. 53-68.

·       “Nationalism and the Other: the Making of Nation and the Nation-State in the Balkans”, Balkanski Identiçnosti Bulgarskata Kultura ot Modernata Epoha (19 – 20 bek), ed. Nikolay Aretov, Sofia: Institut za Izletvane na Integratsiata, 2001, ss. 191-218 [Balkan Identities in Bulgarian Culture in the Modern Era, 19th and 20th  c., ed. by Nikolay Aretov, Sofia: The Institute for Watch and Integration, 2001, (in Bulgarian)].

·         “Political Islam in Secular Turkey in 2000: Change in the Rhetoric towards Westernization, Human Rights and Democracy”, International Journal of Turkish Studies, Vol. 7, Nos 1-2 (2001), pp. 125-137.

·         “Marx, Doğu Sorunu ve Oryantalizm”, Doğu Batı, Vol 5, No. 20 (Aug. – Oct. 2002), pp. 135-150.

·         “Osmanlı Devlet-Toplum İlişkileri Üzerine Kuramsal Yaklaşımların Eleştirisi”, XIII Türk Tarih Kongresi- Kongreye Sunulan Bildiriler, III. Cilt, 2. Kısım, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, 2002, pp. 719-727.

·         “11 Eylül: Bir Dönüm Noktası mı?”, Tarihin 11 Eylül Durağı: Türkiye’den Akademik Bir Bakış, der. S. Dingiloğlu, L. Tokdemir, A. Birdal, İstanbul: Seyir Yayınları, 2003, pp. 75-101.

·         “Türk Siyasal İslamı’nın Batı ve Avrupa Birliği’ne Karşı Tarihsel Tutumunda Değişim”, Proceedings, Middle East Technical University Conference on International Relations, ed. İ. Yaşar Hacısalihoğlu, Servet Karabağ, İstanbul: Çantay Yayınevi, 2003, pp. 79-89.

·         “Yirminci Yüzyılın İlk Yarısında Batı Avrupa ve Avrupa Düzeni”, Toplumsal Tarih, No: 113 (May 2003), pp. 48-53.

·          “Yirminci Yüzyılda Avrupa Tarihi Öğrenimi ve Öğretimi: Ders Kitapları ve Avrupa Tarihi”, Toplumsal Tarih, No: 117 (Sep. 2003), pp. 50-55.

·         “Results of the Third Session”, Rappoteurs’ Introduction of Symposium Results, The Proceedings of the First International Symposium on “Globalization and International Security”, The Turkish General Staff, Military History and Strategic Studies Directorate Publications, (Ankara: The Turkish General Staff Printing Office, 2003), pp. 337-338.

·         “The Role of the Bektashis in Turkey’s National Struggle” Book Review, International Journal of Turkish Studies, Vol. 9, Nos. 1-2 (Summer 2003), pp. 338-343.

·         “Tarih Ders Kitapları ve İnsan Hakları”, Ders Kitaplarında İnsan Hakları: Tarama Sonuçları, ed. Betül Çotuksöten, Ayşe Erzan, Orhan Silier, (İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yayınları, 2003), pp. 207-239.

·         “History Textbooks and Human Rights”, Human Rights Issues in Textbooks: The Turkish Case, ed. by Deniz T. Ceylan and Gürol Irzık, (İstanbul: The History Foundation of Turkey, 2004), pp. 123-148.

·         “De-Radicalization of Political Islam in the Middle East: the Case of the Egyptian Brotherhood”, Journal of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 12 (2003), pp. 147-169.

·         “Historical Foundations of Multiculturalism in the Ottoman Empire”, The Challenges of Multiculturalism in Central and Eastern Europe, ed. by Sandu Frunza, Nicu Gavriluta, Michael S. Jones, Cluj-Napoca: Editura Provopress, 2005, ss. 143-154.

·         “The State, Nation and the Prospects for Democracy in the Middle East”, Journal of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 13 (2004), pp. 277-291.

·         “Religion and Politics in the Making of American Near East Policy, 1918-1922”, Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, No. 11 (Summer 2005), ss. 45-59.

·         “Nation, Nationalism and Religion in the Formation of the Modern Turkish State”, Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, No. 12 (Winter 2005), ss. 27-41.

·         “Despotizm”, Felsefe Ansiklopedisi, Cilt 4 (ed. Ahmet Cevizci), Ankara: Babil Yayıncılık, 2006, ss. 207-215.

·         “Doğu”, Felsefe Ansiklopedisi, Cilt 4 (ed. Ahmet Cevizci), Ankara: Babil Yayıncılık, 2006, ss. 673-678.

 

BOOKS

·       Seçil Karal Akgün, Kıymet Giray, Recep Boztemur, et. al. Yüzyıl (Century), 1899-1999, Gen. Ed. Kıymet Giray, Ankara: Republic of Turkey Directorate General of Press and Information of the Prime Ministry, 2000.

 

TRANSLATION WORKS

  

BOOKS

·       Giovanni Arrighi, Uzun Yirminci Yüzyıl: Para, Güç ve Çağımızın Kökenleri, (The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and Origins of Our Times, New York: Verso, 1994) Ankara: İmge Yayınevi, 2000.

·       Kemal Karpat, Orta Doğu’da Osmanlı Mirası ve Ulusçuluk, Ankara: İmge Yayınları, 2001.

·       Kemal Karpat, Balkanlar’da Osmanlı Mirası ve Ulusçuluk, Ankara: İmge Yayınları, 2004.

 

 

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

 

  • The Board of Higher Education (Ankara, Turkey), Scholarship for Graduate Education, 1990-1994, The University of Utah
  • Fulbright Scholarship in American Studies, The Program for Religion in the US, University of California Santa Barbara, June-Aug. 2004.

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS

 

·       Project Coordinator: “Makedonya’da Etnik Kimliğin Tarihsel, Kültürel ve Dinsel Belirleyici Unsurları” (The Historical, Cultural and religious Determinants of the Ethnic Identity in Macedonia), METU-KORA, 2002-2003, Skopje, Macedonia.

·       Project Participant: “Social Science Database for the Middle East and Eurasia”, METU: Middle East Studies, The Research Center for Black Sea and Central Asia, and the Center for Technology Policies at METU, Jan.-Dec. 2004, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Israel; and Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

·       Project Participant: “The Internal and International Social Impacts of the Souteastern Anatolian Project”, Recep Boztemur-The Middle East Studies, Sibel Kalaycıoğlu, the Department of Sociology, and Ayşegül Kibaroğlu, the Department of International Relations; Jan. 2004-Dec. 2007; Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Italy and The US.  

·       Project Coordinator: “Historical Methodology of Dimitri Cantemir”, METU, Department of History, Jan.-Dec. 2005.

·       Project Coordinator: “Osmanlı Dobrucası’nda Etnik Kimlik, Din ve Kültür” (The Ethnic Identity, Religion and Culture in the Dobruja Region of the Ottoman Empire), METU-KORA, 2005-2006, Sofia and Bucuresti, Bulgaria, Romania.

 

 CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

 

·         Türkiye’de Tarihçilik ve Tarih Eğitimi (History Teaching and Historiography in Turkey), Uluslararası Tarih Öğrencileri Kongresi, ODTÜ Tarih Topluluğu, ODTÜ Tarih Bölümü, Türkiye Toplumsal ve Ekonomik Tarih Vakfı, 14-14 Mayıs  2001, Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Ankara.

·         “The World History Seminars: the US Hegemony”, Prof. Dr. Andrew Horn, Harvard University, W.E.B. DuBois Institute, METU, Department of History, July-Aug. 2003.

·         “The Middle East after the 2003 US Operation in Iraq”, Participant: Prof. Dr. Lenore G. Martin, Harvard University, Co-Chair for Center for Middle Eastern Studies, METU, Cultural and Convention Center, Jan. 14, 2004.

·         Organizasyon Komitesi Üyesi: T.C. Başbakanlık Atatürk Kültür Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu, Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi Başkanlığı, 6. Türk Kültürü Kongresi: Türk Kültürünün Dünya Kültürlerine Etki ve Katkıları, 21-26 Kasım 2005, Ankara 

 

MEMBERSHIP IN EDITORIAL BOARDS

 

·         Atatürk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu, Atatürk Kültür Merkezi, Erdem Dergisi Yayın Kurulu Üyesi

·         Ankara Üniversitesi, DTCF, Osmanlı Tarihi Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi Dergisi OTAM Yayın Kurulu Üyesi, 2004-2005

·         Journal of International Relations (Ankara), Member of the Editorial Board

Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies (Romania), Member of the Advisory Board