Summer & Fall 2013 Teaching Load

ZEYNEP KILIÇ

Education History

M.A.,  Sociology, Arizona State University, 1997, "Mainland Watching Diaspora: Perceptions of Diaspora in the Turkish Press (1972-1993)."

B.Sc., Economics, Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey), 1992.

Biography

Dr. KILIÇ was born and raised in Turkey. After completing her bachelors degree in economics, she moved to the U.S. to pursue graduate school. She arrived in Anchorage in the summer of 2008 after 14 years in Arizona. She is still getting acclimated... 

Career History

Assistant Professor, University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), Department of Sociology (2010- ).

Term Assistant Professor, UAA, Department of Sociology, (2009-2010).

Term Instructor, UAA, Department of Sociology, (2008-2009).

Senior Researcher, Arizona State University (ASU), University Technology Office, Applied Learning Technologies Institute (alt^I), (2005 - 2008).

Research & Development Assistant, Faculty Support Specialist, Digital Media and Instructional Technologies/IS Lab (ASU), (2002 – 2005).

Dissertation fieldwork in Berlin (Germany) and NYC (USA), (2001-2003).

Teaching Associate & Teaching Assistant, Sociology Department , ASU, (1996-2001).

Graduate Assistant, Development Office (ASU Foundation), (1995-1996).

Research

• Immigration, Culture, Citizenship and Identity
• Comparative Sociology
• Qualitative Methodology
• Ethnic Food and Food Cultures
  

Teaching Responsibilites

• Introduction to Sociology (SOC 101), face to face and online classes
  
• Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (SOC 408)
• Sociology of Globalization (SOC A380), formerly as Special Topic course (SOC A490)
  
• Sociology Practicum (SOC 487)

Professional and Departmental Service

• UAA Faculty Technology Fellow (2012-2013)
• Sociology Dept., Outreach committee (Alumni Survey and Departmental Webpage)
  
• UAA Sociology Club, Faculty Advisor (2010- present)
  
• Sustainability in the Curriculum participant (2012-2013)
• NCBI, Welcoming Diversity/Prejudice Reduction, Train the Trainer Workshop (Sept. 2012)
• National Coalition Building Institute, UAA Member (2012-2013)
• Member, Pacific Sociological Association, Committee on the Status of Women (2012-2016)
• Session Organizer, Pacific Sociological Association, Annual Meeting (2010-2012)
• UAA, International and Intercultural Taskforce (2011-2012)
• UAA, Undergraduate Research Taskforce (2011-2012)
• UAA, Marshall Scholarship Committee (2011)
• NVivo (Qualitative Research Software) Workshop, April 12-13 UAA (2010)
• UAA/APU, Difficult Dialogues Fellow, Ford Foundation Program, Start Talking Cohort (2009)
• UAA, NCBI Welcoming Diversity/Prejudice Reduction Workshop (2009)
• UAA Student Showcase and Undergraduate Grants Reviewer
  

Publications

Kılıç, Zeynep and Cecilia Menjivar. 2013. "Fluid Adaptation of Contested Citizenship: Second Generation Turks in Germany And The United States." Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture. DOI:10.1080/13504630.2013.789217.

Kılıç, Zeynep and Jennifer Petzen. Forthcoming. "The Culture in Multiculturalism and Racialized Art." German Politics and Society.

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

Brewer, L., Z. 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 & Maseda, Rebeca. 2013. "18 Meals in Spanish Cinema" at the Third Food Studies:An Interdisciplinary Conference(Austin, Texas, October 15-16).

Kılıç, Zeynep. 2013. "Organizational Interpretations of Belonging and Identity - Politics of Incorporation among Turkish American Associations in New York," the Turkish American Studies Inaugural Workshop (Istanbul, Turkey, June 7-8).

Kılıç, Zeynep. 2013. "Eating My Way Through World Without Hopping on a Plane: Understanding Cultural Constructions and Hierarchies in Ethnic Restaurant Reviews," the 14th Ege University Cultural Studies Symposium: "Confinement, Resistance, Freedom." (Izmir, Turkey, May 8-10).

Kılıç, Zeynep. 2012. "Representing the Turkish: Organizational Approaches to Belonging, Identity and Politics of Incorporation among Turkish Communities in Germany and the United States." Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, CA, March.

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.