Yigit Akin
Assistant Professor
Office Hours: Fellowship Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin,Germany for 2012-2013
Phone: 843.953.7328
E-mail: Akiny@cofc.edu
Yigit Akin received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 2011. His dissertation "The Ottoman Home Front during World War I: Everyday Politics, Society and Culture" examines the social and cultural dimensions of the devastating experience of the First World War for Ottoman society.
Assistant Professor Yigit Akin has been awarded a year-long (2012-2013) post-doctoral fellowship offered by the research program “Europe in the Middle East-The Middle East in Europe” (EUME). EUME is a project at the Forum Transregionale Studien a research platform designed to promote research that connects systematic and region-specific questions in a perspective that addresses entanglements and interactions beyond national, cultural, and regional frames. The Forum is funded by the Senate of Berlin and is administered by the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/Institute for Advanced Study.
Yigit Akin will be attending a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar, “World War I in the Middle East” to be held on the campus of American University in Washington, D.C., from June 9 through July, 6, 2012.
Education
Ph.D. Ohio State University, 2011
M.A. Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Bogazici University, Istanbul, 2003
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 2000
Research Interests
Dr. Akin’s research interests include social and cultural history of late Ottoman and early Republican Turkey; war and society; World War I; Islamic World and Middle Eastern History; modern population politics and practices; labor history and the history of grassroots politics.
Courses Taught
History of the Modern Middle East
History of the Islamic World
Islamic Political Movements
War and Society since 1500
World History
Honors and Awards
- Bradley Family Foundation Fellowship, Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, 2010
- Presidential Fellowship for Academic Excellence, Ohio State University, 2009
- ARIT Institutional Fellowship, American Research Institute in Turkey, 2007
- Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations Residential Fellowship, Koç University, 2007
- Sydney N. Fisher Graduate Student Paper Prize in Turkish Studies, The Turkish Studies Association, 2006
- Clio Award for Outstanding Teaching in History, Zeta Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, OSU, 2006
- Distinguished Young Social Scientist Award, Turkish Social Science Association, 2005
Publications
Dr. Akin’s first book, Gürbüz ve Yavuz Evlatlar: Erken Cumhuriyet'te Beden Terbiyesi ve Spor (Istanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2004) [Robust and Vigorous Children: Physical Education and Sports in Early Republican Turkey] is the study of the emergence and development of physical education and sports policies throughout the late Ottoman and early Republican eras.
Dr. Akin has also published in a number of journals and edited collections, both in English and Turkish. Examples include:
“The Dynamics of Working Class Politics in Early Republican Turkey: Language, Identity, and Experience,” International Review of Social History 54 (2009): 167-188.
“Reconsidering State, Party, and Society in Early Republican Turkey: Politics of Petitioning,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 39 (2007): 435-457.
