CURRICULUM VITAE
BURAK GÜREL
Department of Sociology
Koç University
Rumelifeneri Yolu, Sarıyer
İstanbul, 34450
Turkey
Phone: +90 212 338 1862
Email: [email protected]
Date and Place of Birth: 3 January 1980, İzmir
Education
2015. Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, Department of Sociology. Dissertation title: The Role
of Collective Mobilization in the Divergence of the Rural Economies of China and India
(1950-1990).
2009. MA. Johns Hopkins University, Department of Sociology.
2004. MA. Boğaziçi University, Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History. Thesis Title:
Political Mobilization in Turkey in the 1970s: The Case of the Kahramanmaraş Incidents.
2002. BA. Dokuz Eylül University, Department of International Relations.
Professional Experience
Fall 2013. Instructor, Johns Hopkins University, East Asian Studies Program. Course title:
Rural Development in Asia.
2007-2015. Teaching Assistant, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Sociology.
Spring 2006. Instructor, Boğaziçi University, Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History.
Course title: History of the Turkish Republic II.
2004-2005. Research Assistant, Boğaziçi University, Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish
History.
Publications
2015. Islamism: A Comparative-Historical Overview. In Neşecan Balkan, Erol Balkan, and
Ahmet Öncü (eds.), The Neoliberal Landscape and the Rise of Islamist Capital in Turkey (pp.
13-40), New York: Berghahn Books.
2014. Changing Relations of Production in Chinese Agriculture from Decollectivization to
Capitalism. McGill Sociological Review, Vol. 4, pp. 67-92.
2014. Türkiye’de Kırda Sınıf Mücadelelerinin Tarihsel Gelişimi (Historical Development of
Class Struggles in Rural Turkey). In Sungur Savran, E. Ahmet Tonak, and Kurtar Tanyılmaz
(eds.), Marksizm ve Sınıflar: Dünyada ve Türkiye’de Sınıflar ve Mücadeleleri (Marxism and
Classes: Classes and Their Struggles in Turkey and the World) (pp. 303-385), İstanbul:
Yordam Kitap.
2014. İslamcılık: Uluslararası Bir Ufuk Taraması (Islamism: An International Overview). In
Neşecan Balkan, Erol Balkan, and Ahmet Öncü (eds.), Neoliberalizm, İslamcı Sermayenin
Yükselişi ve AKP (Neoliberalism, the Rise of Islamist Capital, and the AKP) (pp. 19-52),
İstanbul: Yordam Kitap.
2013. (With Chengrong Duan and Weigang Gong). Regional Variation of Lineage Culture
and Fertility Transition in Rural China. Rural China, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 258-310.
2012. İslamcılık (Islamism). In Gökhan Atılgan and E. Attila Aytekin (eds.), Siyaset Bilimi:
Kavramlar, İdeolojiler ve Disiplinler Arası İlişkiler (Political Science: Concepts, Ideologies,
and Interdisciplinary Relations) (pp. 407-428), İstanbul: Yordam Kitap.
2011. Agrarian Change and Labour Supply in Turkey. Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 11,
No. 2, pp. 195-219.
2007. (With Can Nacar). Şefik Hüsnü Değmer. In Murat Gültekingil (eds.), Modern
Türkiye’de Siyasi Düşünce, Cilt 8: Sol (Political Thought in Modern Turkey, Volume 8: The
Left) (pp. 118-133), İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları.
2007. (With Fulya Özkan). İsmail Bilen (Laz İsmail). In Murat Gültekingil (eds.), Modern
Türkiye’de Siyasi Düşünce, Cilt 8: Sol (Political Thought in Modern Turkey, Volume 8: The
Left) (pp. 294-309), İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları.
2004. 1970’ler Türkiye’sinde İslamcı ve Faşist Siyaset: Vaatler ve Sonuçlar (Islamist and
Fascist Politics in Turkey in the 1970s: Promises and Results). Praksis, No. 12, pp. 85-102.
2004. “Communist Police!” The State in the 1970s Turkey. The Journal of Historical Studies,
Vol. 2, pp. 1-18.
Book Reviews
2014. Review of Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery, Peasants under Siege: The
Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962. The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol.
41, No. 2, pp. 291-294.
Conference and Workshop Papers
2014. The Role of Labor Mobilization in the Divergence of the Rural Economies of China
and India (1950-1980). In Social Science Seminars, Koç University, İstanbul, February 20.
2014. The Role of Labor Mobilization in the Divergence of the Rural Economies of China
and India (1947-1992). In East Asian Studies Spring 2014 Student Symposium: Transforming
East Asia, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, April 11.
2013. Landownership and Capitalist Agriculture in China. In Agrarian Development in China:
Legacies and Prospects, The Arrighi Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, November
1.
2013. The Role of Labor Mobilization in the Divergence of the Rural Economies of China
and India (1947-1992). In Center for Development Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala, March 22.
2012. Changing Relations of Production in Chinese Agriculture from Decollectivization to
Agrarian Capitalism. In 21st Annual Columbia Graduate Student Conference on East Asia,
Columbia University, New York, February 10-11.
2007. Peasant Struggles over Land in Turkey (1960-1980). In Historical Social ScienceGraduate Student Conference, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, April 28-29.
2006. Land Occupation as a Form of Peasant Resistance in Turkey (1968-1980). In The
Political Economy of the Middle East in the Age of Empire: Historical, Theoretical, and
Political Reflections, York University, Toronto, March 23-24.
Grants and Fellowships
2013. Stephen and Lynn Browne Graduate Student Teaching Fellowship, East Asian Studies
Program, Johns Hopkins University.
2012. Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University (Summer research grant).
2012. East Asian Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University (Summer research grant).
2012. Program in Global Social Change, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
(Summer research grant).
2009-2010. Chinese Government Scholarship, Wuhan University, China (Awarded
scholarship as a full-time language student).
2009. East Asian Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University (Summer research grant).
2009. Institute for Global Studies, Johns Hopkins University (Summer research grant).
2006-2007. The Fox International Fellowship Program, MacMillan Center, Yale University.
Academic Peer Review
Antipode
Journal of Agrarian Change
Languages
Turkish (Native)
English (Fluent)
Mandarin Chinese (Fluent)