Name: Ayşe Nilüfer DURAKBAŞA
Title: Prof. Dr.
Date of Birth: 7.01.1961
Status: Divorced; has two sons (27 years old; and 17 years old)
Work experience:
- Member of Faculty in the State Universities, Turkey, since 1986.
- Research Assistant: Mimar Sinan University, Sociology 1986-1993
- Assistant Professor: Mimar Sinan University, Sociology 1993-1998
- Doçent (Associate Professor): Mimar Sinan University, Sociology 1998-2002
- Professor: Muğla University, Sociology 2003-2009
- Professor: Marmara University, Sociology 2009-2016
- Chairperson of Sociology Department, Marmara University, June 2010- June 2016 (for 2 terms)
Institution:
Marmara University, Sociology Department, İstanbul, retired in December 2016.
e-mail: aysedurakbasa@yahoo.com
mobile tel.: 0090-538 313 36 79
Education Background:
- B.A degree in Sociology, Bosphorus University, İstanbul, 1983.
- M.A degree in Sociology, Bosphorus University, İstanbul, 1987
- PhD degree in Sociology, University of Essex, U.K., 1993.
Title of the Doctorate Thesis:
Reappraisal of Halide Edib for a Critique of Turkish Modernization, Advisor: Leonore Davidoff, University of Essex, 1988-1993.
Academic Position:
Professor in General Sociology and Methodology, since 2003.
Area of Specialization:
- Sociology of Gender
- Feminist Theory and Methodology
- Women’s Studies
- Social Stratification ( Social Inequality)
- Citizenship
- Social History
- Institution
Language skills:
(competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 - excellent; 5 - basic)
Language Reading Speaking Writing
Turkish 1 1 1
English 1 2 1
French 3 5 4
German 5 5 5
Membership of professional bodies:
- European Association of Sociology
- Sosyoloji Mezunları Derneği (Association of Sociology Graduates), İstanbul
- Sosyoloji Derneği (Turkish Sociological Association), Ankara.
Other skills:
Administration of focus groups and oral history workshops for the purpose of empowerment of women and oral history interviews for collecting research data.
Key qualifications: (Relevant to the position)
Experienced in working with and in Women’s NGO’s; I have prepared and conducted various graduate and undergraduate courses in the area of gender and women’s studies in the university curriculum and lectured extensively to the women publics of a great variety both at the national and international level.
Teaching:
the main courses in sociology, at a number of universities, including Introduction to Sociology, The Structure of Modern Societies, Social Stratification, Debates on Turkish Modernization, Sociology in Turkey, Global Inequalities and Citizenship, Sociology of Gender Identities, Sociology of Family and Gender, Sociology of Urbanization, Social Stratification and Mobility, Interdisciplinary Research Design and Methodology, Feminist Theory and History, Oral History.
