Dilek Cindoglu, Ph.D.
Political Science

Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo, U.S.A. 1991. Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration Bilkent Univesity since 1991 and Assistant Chair since 2003 September. She is a sociologist working on gender and work, power, health and sexuality issues in contemporary Turkey and Middle East. She was a visiting fellow at the Center for Gender and Sexuality at New York University in 2003 summer, and senior fellow at the St.Antony's College in , Oxford in 2002 summer an Honorary Fellow and Fullbright scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center of University of Wisconsin at Madison, in 1998-1999 academic years. She is a graduate of Bogazici University, Istanbul (B.A. and M.A.) and State University of NewYork at Buffalo (Ph.D). She has training on focus groups and emotional intelligence education. She has been conducting Focus Groups, Search Conferences. EQ Workshops and Problem Solving Workshops for variouos organizations as well as for her own research. She has worked as consultant on various projects funded by by national (KSSGM, AAK ) and international (IDRC of Canada, Ford Foundation, World Bank, ILO-IPEC) sources and published in several international journals including Women's Studies International Forum, European Women's Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies. She has articles in edited books including Deniz Kandiyoti (ed) Fragments of Culture: The Everyday Life in Modern Turkey, I.B.Tauris, 2002 and Pinar Ilkkaracan (ed), Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies, Istanbul 2000. She has one daughter.

Research and Teaching Interests

Research Interests

Sociology of Internet
Democracy and Everyday Life
Gender Stratification
Sociology of Sexuality
Medical Sociology
Sociology of Art

Teaching Interests

Qualitative Research Methods
Gender and Politics
Social Psychology
Medical Sociology
Sociology of Internet

Papers Published
Cindoglu, Dilek and Ibrahim Sirkeci, Rukiye Sirkeci "Determinants of choosing withdrawal over modern contraceptive methods in Turkey", The European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care (in press)

Cindoglu, Dilek and Feyda Sayan-Cengiz, "Alliances of Medicalization and Modernity in a Non-Western Society: Contested Meanings Over Childbirth in Contemporary Turkey" (under review)

Sirkeci, Ibrahim and Dilek Cindoglu, "Coitus Interrupts and A Room of One's Own: Birth Control Choices in Turkey" (under review)

Cindoglu, Dilek and Ibrahim Sirkeci, "Empowerment and Coitus Interrupts: Herstory of Birth Control in Contemporary Turkey" (under review)

Cindoglu, Dilek and Gizem Zencirci, "Withering the Counter Hegemonic Potential of the Headscarf: Public Sphere, State Sphere and the Headscarf Question in Turkey" (forthcoming) Middle Eastern Studies

Cindoglu, Dilek, Selin Akyuz, Edıp Bekaroglu Adnan Boynukara, "Does Eros Contour the Demos: Rising Democracy Discourse in 2000s Turkey" (Vol 30) issue 6 . 465-473. Women Studies International Forum

Cindoglu, Dilek, Murat Cemrek and Selin Akyuz "The Rise of Awareness For Honor Crimes via Globalization of Media With Special Reference to Turkey" accepted for publication in Anthology on Domestic Violence

Toktas, Sule and Dilek Cindoglu, "Modernization and Gender: A Study of Girl's Technical Education in Turkey since 1927", Women's History Review . Vol 15, No.5, pp 737-749, 2006.

Cindoglu, Dilek
"Women's Microenterprise Activity", in Bridging the Gender Gap in Turkey: A Milestone Towards Faster Socio-Economic Development and Povery Reduction, World Bank Publications, 2003

Durakbasa, Ayse and Dilek Cindoglu
"Tezgah Ustu Karsilasmalar" (ed) Deniz Kandiyoti and Ayse Saktanber, Kultur Fragmanlari: Turkiye'de Gundelik Hayat, Metis Yayinlari. 2002, 2003.

Cindoglu, Dilek
"Turkish Women Writers in the 20th century" ( 2: 2002) IKO - Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation ,Frauen In Der Einen Welt, , Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Frauenalltagsforschung, Frankfurt.

Cindoglu, Dilek and Sule Toktas
"Empowerment and Resistance Strategies of Working Women in Turkey: The Case of 1960-1970 Graduates of the Girl's Institutes", European Journal of Women's Studies , Vol 9 (1): 31-49, 2002.

Cindoglu, Dilek, Murat Cemrek, Sule Toktas, Gizem Zencirci
"The Family in Turkey: The Battleground of the Modern and the Traditional" (ed) Charles B.Hennon and Timothy H.Brubaker, (forthcoming) in Diversity in Families a Global Perspective, Wadsworth Publishing Company.

Cindoglu, Dilek, Ibrahim Sirkeci
"Variables That Explain Variation in Prenatal Care in Turkey: Social Class, Education and Ethnicity Re-Visited", Journal of Biosocial Science, (2001) 33, 261-270

Durakbasa, Ayse and Dilek Cindoglu
"Encounters at the Counter: The Gender Dimension of the Shopping Experience in Contemporary Turkey" (ed) Deniz Kandiyoti, Fragments of Culture: The Everyday Life in Modern Turkey, I.B.Tauris, 2002.

Esim, Simel, Dilek Cindoglu
"Women's Organizations In 1990's Turkey: Predicaments and Prospects", Middle Eastern Studies. January 1999.vol 35 no 1 pp. 178-188. (Winning essay in the "Competition on Girls and Young Women and the Women's Movement" of Women in Society Research Committee -International Sociological Association 1998.)

Cindoglu, Dilek
"Namus, Nikah, Bekaret: 1990 lar Turkiyesinde Cinsellige Iliskin Paradoxlar" [Virtue, Purity and Marriage: The Paradoxes of Sexuality in 1990%92s Turkey], (ed) Oya Citci. 20.Yuzyilin Sonunda Kadinlar ve Gelecek Konferansi Bildirileri Turkiye Amme Idaresi Enstitusu, Yayin No. 285, November 1998.

Cindoglu, Dilek
"Virginity Tests and Artificial Virginity in Modern Turkish Medicine",
Women's Studies International Forum, Vol. 20. No.2, pp. 253-261, 1997; and reprinted in Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies, {with the permission of the journal](ed) Pinar Ilkkaracan, Women for Women's Rights Publications, Istanbul 2000.

Cindoglu, Dilek, Gulnur Muradoglu,
"Muhasebe ve Finans Dalinda Bilim Kadinlarinin Is ve Aile Rolleri Ile Basetme Stratejileri [The Coping Strategies of Women in Academia]" (ed) Dr Hasan Coskun, Akademik Yasamda Kadin : Turk ve Alman Universitelerinde Kadin Kariyerlerinin Karsilastirilmasi, Turk-Alman Kultur Isleri Kuruli Yayin Dizisi No:9, Ankara, 1996.

Cindoglu, Dilek
"Dogumun Medikalizasyonu ve Kadin Acisindan Hastahaneler [Medicalization of Childbirth and Women's Perspectives on Hospitals]" May-June 1994:9, 61, Toplum ve Hekim.

Cindoglu, Dilek
"Turk Hekimlerinin Mesleki Prestijlerine Sosyolojik Bir Yaklasim [Turkish Physican's Status Examined: A Sociological Analysis]", May-June 1994:9, 61, Toplum ve Hekim .

Cindoglu, Dilek
"Bekaretin Yeniden Uretiminde Modern Turk Tibbi: Bekaret Muayeneleri ve Bekareti Onarma Mudahalelerine Sosyolojik Bir Yaklasim [Modern Turkish Medicine in the Reproduction of Virginity]",in Dunyada ve Turkiyede Guncel Sosyolojik Gelismeler, Sosyoloji Dernegi Yayinlari III, Ankara 1994.

Cindoglu, Dilek
"Modern Turk Sinemasinda Kadin [Women in Turkish Cinema]", published in the Istanbul Universitesi Kadin Sorunlari Arastirma Merkezi Dergisi, 1994:2.

Muradoglu Gulnur, Can Mugan and Dilek Cindoglu
"Do Women Accounting Students Outperform Men: A Quest for Universal Traits" Hacettepe Universitesi Iktisadi ve Idari Bilimler Fakultesi Dergisi, cilt 12: 1994, 159-172.

Culpan Oya, Fusun Akdag and Dilek Cindoglu
"Women in Banking Integration Myth: A Comparative Perspective", published in International Journal of Manpower, Vol 13, Issue 1, 1992.

Awards and Grants
Research Grant, TUBITAK, Gender in Poltical Thinking: A Research on the Question of Equality of Men and Women in the 23rd Period of the Turkish Grand National Assembly , co investigator, 2008-2009

Collaborative Grant Partner, EU 7th Framework Program, SSH-2007-3. 3-01, "Gender, Migration and Intercultural Interactions in the Mediterranean and South East Europe: An Interdisciplinary Perspective", 2007-2010

Research Grant, TUBITAK, "Internet and Democracy: A Comparative Research on the Prospects of Democracy", 2006-2007.

Resarch Grant, TUBITAK "The European MEP's Attitudes on Turkey and Turkey's Accession to EU", June-December 2006.

Fulbright Visiting Specialist Program
"Direct Access to the Muslim World" Award, Miami University at Ohio, Jan-Feb 2006

"Let's Research [Arastiralim]" Project Competition (with Adnan Boynukara), First Winner of Arastirmacilar Dernegi, January 2006.

Research Grant, TUBITAK, "A Sociological Analysis of the Rising Democracy Discourse in the Process of EU Accession of Turkey: Bottlenecks and Common Denominators among the Political Actors", July 2005- March 2006

Research Development Grant, Bilkent University, Ankara, Summer 2003. Affiliated scholar at the New York University, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York, Summer 2003

Visiting Scholarship and Senior Associate Membership,
St. Anthony's College, Oxford, AUB and Oxford Program on Sexuality in the Middle East, sponsored by the Ford Foundation, Summer 2001

Honorary Fellowship,
Women's Studies Research Center, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA, Fall 1998
Fulbright Post Doctoral Fellowship,
University of Wisconsin Madison Women's Studies Research Center Honorary Fellow Women's Studies Program, USA, September-December 1998

Incentive Award for Publications,
Turkish Academy of Sciences, (TUBA) 1998

Research Award, Principle Investigator
"Forms of Resistance: Sexual Purity and Artificial Virginities in Contemporary Turkey", MEAwards, Population Council, 1997 August

Resarch Grant, Co-Investigator (with Prof. Ayse Durakbasa)
"Isyerlerinde Cinsiyete Dayali Ayrimcilik ve Isverenlerin Kadin Calisanlara Karsi Tutumu: Buro ve Magaza Calisanlarina Derinlemesine Bir Bakis [Discrimination at the Workplace]", Kadinin Statusu ve Sorunlari Genel Mudurlugu, April-December 1995

Research Grant, Principle Investigator,
"Gender and Health: Women as Health Care Recipients in Turkish Society". International Development and Research Center (IDRC), May 1995- May 1996

Research Project Grant, Co-Investigotor
"Calisan Kadinlarin Cocuk Bakimi ve Aile Sorumluluklari: Tip Alaninda Calisan Kadinlar [Childcare and Household Responsibilities of Working Women], Institute of Family- Turkish Republic, 1992

Travel Award, American Sociological Association,1992

ME Awards-Population Council - Project Development Award for " Gender and Medicine: A Close-Up Look to the Power Relations in Turkish Medicine", 1992.

Public Health Research Grants, Turkish Medical Association, 1992

Dissertation Writing Grant, Institute of Turkish Studies, 1990

Travel Grant, Graduate Student Association, State University of New York at Buffalo, December 1989 and 1988

STEP Award, Institute of International Education, American Sociological Association, August 1988

Travel Grant, Rutgers University Women Studies Department, March 1988

Graduate Assistantship, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1986-1989

Address: Bilkent University
Department of Political Science
Ankara/TURKEY
Phone: 90 312 2901913
Fax: 90 312 2902742
e-mail: cindoglu@bilkent.edu.tr
URL: http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~cindoglu