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NİSA GÖKSEL Address: 1810 Chicago Avenue Sociology Email: [email protected] or Department Evanston IL 60208 [email protected] EDUCATION: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA Sep 2009- present PhD candidate, Sociology Department, Northwestern University Graduate Certificate, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies Dissertation Title: “A State(less) Community, A Borderless Movement: Kurdish Women’s Political Mobilization from Local to Transnational” Dissertation Committee Chair: Prof. Ann S. Orloff March 2015-July 2015 Visiting Scholar, SciencesPo (The Observatoire Sociologique du Changement-OSC), Paris Apr 2013- Jun 2013 Visiting Scholar, SciencesPo (The Observatoire Sociologique du Changement), Paris Jun 2011 M.A., Sociology (SOC) Northwestern University (NU), Evanston Thesis: “Negotiated and Contested Identities: Kurdish Women’s Struggle for Peace in Turkey” Advisor: Prof. Ann S. Orloff Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Sep 2007 – Jun 2008 M.A., Sociology and Social Anthropology (SOC), M.A. Thesis: “Women on the Margins of Life and Death: Honor Crime and Governmentality in Turkey” Advisor: Prof. Prem Kumar Rajaram Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey Sep 2001- Feb 2007 BA, Sociology (SOC), and History (HIST) (Double-Major) Fine Arts Certificate Hasan Polatkan Anatolian High School, Istanbul, Turkey 1997-2001 High School Diploma 1 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Sociology of Gender and Sexuality Feminist and Women’s Movements Nationalism and Postcolonial Theory Migration and Diaspora Studies Political Sociology Human Rights and Peace Activism Transnationalism Studies HONORS & AWARDS: The American Association of University Women International Fellowship, 20162017 Nermin Abadan Unat Social Science Award, Summer 2016 Dicle Koğacıoğlu Article Award, Fall 2015 Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund, 2014-2015 MacArthur Summer Research Grant with Jaimie Morse (PhD candidate at Northwestern University) and Prof. John Hagan, Summer 2014. Northwestern University Buffett Center Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Summer Research Award, Summer 2014. NU Graduate Research Grant, Summer 2014. NU Sociology Department Research Fellowship, Spring 2013 Equality Development and Globalization Studies Summer Research Award, Spring 2013 The Sexualities Project Summer Research Grant, Spring 2012 Buffett Center Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Summer Research Award, Spring 2011 Buffett Center Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Research Award, Spring 2010 Gender Studies Cluster Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Fall 2009 PUBLICATIONS: Articles Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals Nisa Göksel, 2015, “Ulus-Ötesinde Öteki Politik Özneler: Avrupa’da Kürt Kadınlarının Siyasi, Toplumsal ve Kültürel Mücadeleleri,” Modus Operandi, 3: 11-45 Articles in Non-Referred Journals Goksel, Nisa. “Michel Foucault’da Iktidar Kurma Pratikleri: Turkiye’de Kadin Bedenini, Namusu ve Siddeti Yeniden Dusunmek.” (The Practices of Power in M. Foucault’s Work: Rethinking Body, Honor and Violence in Turkey) Cogito: Michel Foucault Ozel Sayisi, 70 (Summer), 2012. Goksel, Nisa. “A Brief Evaluation of the Notion of Honor and the Issue of Honor Crime— Organizational Dimensions and Women’s Activism: The Case of Turkey.” MP: An Online Feminist Journal, 2009, 2(3). Goksel, Nisa. “Toplumsal Cinsiyet Iliskileri: Neo-liberalizm ve Aile Soylemleri,” (The Gender Dynamics: Neo-Liberalism and Discourses of Family) Birikim, 243, 2009. 2 Goksel, Nisa. Women on the Margins of Life and Death: Honor Crime and Governmentality in Turkey [M.A Thesis], VDM-Verlag Publishing: Germany, 2008. Papers under review Nisa Goksel, “Mobilizing Motherhood as an Alternative Form of Politics: The Peace Mothers' Political Struggle in Turkey,” submitted to Gender & Society. SELECTED PRESENTATIONS: “Moral and Political Force of Motherhood: Peace Mothers’ Alternative Form of Politics,” American Sociological Association (ASA), Chicago, August 2015. “Peace at Multiple Fronts: From the Reconciliation with the Turkish State to Local Peace Commissions,” the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Ankara August 2014. “Stories of Identity, Violence, and Displacement: Activism across Space,” the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting (SSHA), Chicago, November 2013. “Kurdish Women’s Activism Across Space: Narratives of War, Violence, and Migration,” American Graduate School, Paris, April 2013. “Motherhood as a Contested Space: Kurdish Mothers’ Struggle for Peace,” Engendering Change, University of Illinois, Chicago, March 2013. “We are mothers and we support peace: Kurdish Women’s Political Activism in Diyarbakir,” Comparative Historical Social Sciences Workshop, Northwestern University, February 2013. “Ethnicity versus Gender: Stories of Peace and Trauma in Turkey,” Middle Eastern Studies Association Conference (MESA), Denver, November 2012. “Feminism or Motherhood? Some Theoretical Considerations,” Eastern Sociological Society (ESS), New York, February 2012. “Negotiated and Contested Identities: Women’s Struggle for Peace in Turkey,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting (ASA), Las Vegas, August 2011. “‘Honor Trouble: Honor Crime and Governmental Discourses in Turkey,” Annual Meeting of Eastern Sociological Society (ESS), Boston, March 2010. WORK & SERVICE EXPERIENCE: Lecturer, Sociology Department, Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey), Summer 2016, course taught: Sociology of Gender. Lecturer, Sociology Department, Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey), Summer 2015, course taught: Sociology of Gender. Graduate Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University, Spring 2010-Winter 2013 • Introduction to Sociology, Spring 2010; 3 • • • • • • • Sociology of Organizations, Fall 2010; Youth and Society, Winter 2011; Sexuality and Society, Spring 2011; Introduction to Sociology, Fall 2011; Gender and Society, Winter 2012; Gender and Society, Spring 2012; Race and Society, Fall 2012 Co-representative of the Communications Section of the Graduate Student Committee of Sociology Department, Northwestern University, 2012-2013 Coordinator of Graduate Liaisons (university-wide) at the Graduate Student Committee of Sociology Department, Northwestern University, 2011-2012 Voluntary work in the Foundation of Women’s Library and Information Center, Istanbul, 2008- 2009. Language education in the French Institute of Istanbul (L’Institut Français d’Istanbul), 2005 to 2007. Voluntary work in Books4 Life association in Tilburg University, Fall 2005. Social Work in Bogazici University, Tutor for Visually Impaired Students, 2003-2007 SUGGESTED COURSES TO TEACH: Sociology of Gender, Political Sociology, Sociological Analysis, Introduction to Sociology, and Feminist Analysis LANGUAGES: Turkish (native); English (excellent); and French (advanced) PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: American Sociological Association (ASA), 2012-present Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), 2012-present Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA), 2011-2014 4