Zeynep Kilic
 
Zeynep Kilic

Zeynep Kılıç

Assistant Professor

Office: SSB 365
Phone: 786-1658
Email: afzk@uaa.alaska.edu

Education History
Ph.D., Sociology, Arizona State University, 2006
M.A., Sociology, Arizona State University, 1997
B.Sc., Economics, Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey), 1992

Research
  • Immigration, Culture, Citizenship and Identity
  •  Comparative Sociology
  • Qualitative Methodology
  • Ethnic Food and Migrant Art
Teaching Responsibilites
  • Introduction to Sociology (SOC 101)
  • Race and Ethnicity (SOC 408)
  • Social Science Research Methods (SOC/PS 361)
  • Globalization (SOC A490)
Professional and Departmental Service
  • Member, Pacific Sociological Association, Committee on the Status of Women
  • Session Organizer, Pacific Sociological Association, Annual Meeting 2010
  • UAA, International and Intercultural Taskforce
  • UAA, Undergraduate Research Taskforce
  • UAA, Marshall Scholarship Committee
Publications

Kilic, Zeynep. 2011. Review article (Marc Helbing. 2008. Practising Citenship and Heterogeneous Nationhood. Amsterdam. IMISCOE/ Amsterdam University Press) for International Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 37(2):351-52

Brewer, L., Zeynep Kılıç, S. DiGangi, A. Jannasch-Pennell. 2008. "Examining Student Technology Ownership and Use." International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, vol 4, no. 4, Pp. 129-142 (http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.502).

Kılıç, Zeynep. 2005. "Second Generation Turkish Immigrants in the U.S. and Germany: Dilemmas of Cultural Identity," Pp. 163-81 in Crossing Over: Comparing Recent Migration in the United States and Europe, edited by Holger Henke. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Jacobson, David and Zeynep Kılıç. 2003. "European Citizenship and the Republican Tradition" PEGS, Good Society, Special Issue on European Citizenship Symposium. Volume 12, No.1, Pp. 31-34.

Miller-Loessi, Karen and Zeynep Kılıç. 2001. "A Unique Diaspora? The Case of Adopted Girls from the People's Republic of China," Diaspora. A Journal of Transnational Studies, 10, 2: 243-60. (peer reviewed)

Kılıç, Zeynep. 2001. "Dual Citizenship: Diminished Loyalties?" New Cultural Perspectives in the New Millennium, The Proceedings of the Fifth Cultural Studies Seminar, 51-58. Izmir, Turkey: Ege University.

Selected Conference Presentations and Colloquia

Kılıç, Zeynep. 2011. "Ethnic Food: More Palatable Than Immigrants Themselves?" Food Studies Conference, University of Las Vegas, NV, December.

Kılıç, Zeynep and Jennifer Petzen. 2011. "Give Me Your Educated, Your Artists, Your Creative Masses: Commodification of Immigrant Art and Artists in the Migration Context," Conference on Immigration in Germany (invited/closed conference), Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., October.

Kılıç, Zeynep. 2011. "Generational Gap within Migrant Associations: Turkish Case in Germany & the United States." Pacific Sociological Association, Seattle, WA, March.

Kılıç, Zeynep. 2010."Turkish Migrant Organizations in Germany and the United States: Religious and Secular Approaches." Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland, CA, April.

Kılıç, Zeynep. 2009. "Home, is this the sweet home? A fluid and contested place." American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, August.