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Professor of Psychology

SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HU

MANITIES

Developing Societies; Applied Psychology: An International Review; Indian Journal of Social Work; Early Childhood Research; Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology; Nüfus Bilim Dergisi, Member of International Advisory Board of Editors: International Handbook of Psychology; International Encyclopedia of Psychology

GRANTS and CONSULTING

Value of Children Project, supported by International Development Research Centre (IDRC), duration: 1975- 1979. (Nation-wide study carried out in Turkey as a part of a 9-country cross-national comparative project); Early Childhood Development and Education Project, undertaken for the Turkish Ministry of Education, duration: 1978-1980 (two phases), Co-director in the first phase: Dr. Selçuk Özgediz; Comprehensive Preschool Education Project, (The Turkish Early Enrichment Project), supported by IDRC, duration: 1982-1986. Longitudinal study; 1978-Present: Consultative work with the Turkish Ministry of Education, focusing on early child care and education and adult education (parent education) programs; 1977-1991: Consultative work with the Turkish Radio and Television. Prepared an 11-session Parent Education Program which was broadcast in 1985. Chief Academic Advisor for the Turkish Sesame Street program (1988-89); Follow-up Study of the Turkish Early Enrichment Project (supported by MEAwards) (1991-92). Long-term effects on the mother and children of an empowerment and early enrichment program (respectively); Based on the above work a mother- Child Training Program is developed (including cognitive materials and books as well as child rearing content in group discussion format): It is in wide application in Turkey (in the Ministry of Education Adult Education Centers) and in some centers in Holland. Since 1993, it is run by the Mother-Child Education Foundation (MOCEF); founding member and advisor of MOCEF and its Mother-Child Education Program (MOCEP), Functional Adult Literacy Program (FALP) and Father Support Program (By 2002 more than 150.000 peoples have participated in the programs all over Turkey); Development of a screening instrument for assessing the child’s environment, designed for use in developing countries; Review of instruments on child development and environmental indicators in Turkey and developing countries (India, Kenya, the Philippines, Sri-Lanka) and preparation (with Cassie Landers) of a report on Measuring the Development of Young Children. (Supported by the Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development, UNICEF); 1993-94: director of Study Group on “The Interaction Between the Providers of Family Services” of the Council of Europe; Member of the Perception and Assessment of Environmental change Study

Group of the International Social Science Council; Project Director, Effects of two different empowerment programs on women in low income low education areas of İstanbul (1997-1998); Academic advisor of Project to adapt MOCEP; Evaluation study of the TV program of MOCEP (Project Director); Evaluation Study of FALP; Project to develop better thinking skills (verbal, mathematical, spatial) among socio-economically disadvantaged young adolescents, for use in community centers and schools (1998-present); “Value of Children Revisited”: A 22-year longitudinal project (with Ataca).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Academic

2010 – present; Director Center for Gender Studies (KOÇ-KAM)

1995 - present; Professor of Psychology, Koç University, İstanbul

1998- 2001; Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, Koç University

1982 -1995; Professor of Psychology, Boğaziçi University (1982-83 and 1989-1993: Department Head)

1979-1982; Professor and Head, Dep. of Social Sciences, Boğaziçi University

1974-1979; Associate Prof., Department of Social Sciences, Boğaziçi University

1974 fall; Invited Lecturer of Psychology, İstanbul Technical University, Architecture Master’s Program

1973-1974; Assistant Prof., Department of Social Sciences, Boğaziçi University

1969-1973; Assistant Prof., Department of Social Sciences, Middle East Technical University

1967-1969; Principal and Psychology Instructor, Çizakça Koleji

1961-1966; Teaching and Research Assistant, Psychology Department, University of California

Visiting Academic Positions

2001; Visiting Professor, Duke University, Durham, USA; Visiting Scholar, Columbia University

1995 ; Visiting Professor as Jawaharlal Nehru Chair in Human Development and Family Studies, M.S. University of Baroda 1993-94; Visiting Scholar, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar, the Netherlands

1983-84; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Graduate School of Education and Radcliffe M.I. Bunting Institute 1979 ; Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Middle East Studies Center, Columbia University, 1979; Affiliate, Office of Population Research, Princeton University

1973; Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California

COLLEGE OF

SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HU

MANITIES

ÇİĞDEM KAĞITÇIBAŞI

HONORS and AWARDS

2007 Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award with her co-authored book, ”Families Across Cultures: a 30 - Nation Psychological Study”; 2007, William Thierry Preyer Award for Excellence in Research on Human Development, European Society for Developmental Psychology; 2006, Fellow of TWAS, the Academy of Science for the Developing World; 2005, Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study; 1998, Honorary Fellow of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology; 1998,

International Association of Applied Psychology, Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution to the International Advancement of Applied Psychology; 1997, Wellesley College Alumnae Achievement Award; 1996, Middle East Technical University Mustafa Parlar Science Award; 1993: Turkish Academy of Sciences Founding Member (1994- 1997 Member of the Academy Council); 1993, American Psychological Association Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology Award; 1993- 94, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study Fellow; 1992, Turkish Children’s Foundation Award for research in child development; 1991, MEAwards Research Award (Population Council-International Development Research Center (IDRC)-Ford Foundation) (Follow-up Study of the Turkish Early Enrichment Project); 1985: Phi Beta Kappa (Alumnae Member; Wellesley College); 1983-84, Fulbright Scholar (Fulbright Senior Fellowship; Harvard University); Bunting Fellow, M.I. Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College; Honorary Fellow of the Population Council; Pathfinder Award 1982-86, IDRC research award (Turkish Early Enrichment Project); 1980, Turkish Social Science Award (Simavi Foundation); 1978: MEAwards Research Award (Population Council- IDRC- Ford) (A Multiple Indicator Approach: Development, VOC and Fertility) (Co-Investigator: Yılmaz Esmer); 1974, IDRC research award (Value of Children Project); 1968, Ford Foundation research grant (Izmir Project); 1964-65, American Association of University Women Fellowship; International House Fellowship; University of California, Berkeley; 1959-61, Wellesley Scholar, Wellesley College; 1959, Fulbright Grant

MEMBER

Member of Turkish Academy of Sciences; President and Past President of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (1990-1994); previous offices: President-elect and Vice President (1988-1990); Deputy Secretary General (1986-1988) and Executive Council member (1982- present); Vice President (1996-2000) and Executive Council Member of the International Union of Psychological Science 1988-2004; Member, Executive Council of the International Social Science Council (under the auspices of UNESCO (2002- present); Member of the

Policy Comittee for Science in Developing Countries of the International Council for Science (ICSU); President of the Turkish Psychological Association (1992-1994); Member of International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology; International Council of Psychologists; Turkish Psychological Association; Turkish Social Science Association; International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development,

International Association of Applied Psychology; Member of the Advisory Board of Middle East Research Awards in Population and Development (Ford Foundation- IDRC- Population Council) (1986-89); Advisor to the Consultative Group an Early Childhood Care and Development, UNICEF (1986-1997); Member of the five-person International Board of Editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Children’s Britannica and Compton’s Encyclopedia Turkish Versions. (completed, 1993); Trustee of AFS International/Intercultural Programs (1978-1987); Founding member and trustee of Turkish Cultural Foundation; Organizer of the 8th Biennial International Congress of Cross-Cultural Psychology (6- 10 July 1986); Member of the Simavi Foundation Social Science Award Jury (1981-1993); Member of C. T. Gürson Child Health Foundation Award Jury (1985-1993); Member of the Milliyet Social Science Award Jury (1986); Member of the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation IEA Preprimary Project Content Review Panel, (1992-present); Member of the Advisory Board, International Literacy Institute (University of Pennsylvania) (1994-Present); Founding member and Scientific Advisor, Mother-Child Education Foundation; Member of the Scientific Board, Turkish Foundation for Economic and Social Studies; Member of the Aydın Doğan Social Science Jury, 1998; Member of the Advisory Board of St. Francis College Center for International and Cross-Cultural Psychology, New York; Foreign affiliate of the American Psychological Association; Honorary member of Turkish Australian Society; Member of Scientific Committee of CROP (Comparative Research Program on Poverty) of the International Social Science Council (1996-1999); Member of the International Children’s Center Board of Advisors (2000-present)

SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HU

MANITIES

Ph.D. in Central Asian Studies, Columbia University, 1982; MPhil. in School of International Studies, Columbia University, 1979; M.A. in Soviet Nationality Problems, Columbia University, 1977; B.A. in Turkish Language & Literature, İstanbul University, 1971

Professor Kocaoğlu teaches courses on history of the Turkic Peoples (Core), Central Asian Republics in Transition, and Turkish Biography Writing.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Timur Kocaoğlu, The past as Prologue Challenging the Myth of the Subordinated, Docile Woman in Muslim Central Eurasia” in Gender Politics in Post-Communist Eurasia (edited by Linda Racioppi and Katherine O’Sullivan See), East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2009; 169-208 Timur Kocaoğlu, Karay: The Trakai Dialect. Munich: Lincom Europa Academic Publications, 2006

Timur Kocaoğlu, “Indian Revolutionaries as Metaphore in Modern Uzbek Liretarure” Asia Annual-2004 (Kolkata: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, 2005), pp. 1-23

Timur Kocaoglu (ed.), Reform Movements and Revolutions in Turkistan: 1900-1924. Haarlem (Netherlands): SOTA, 2001 Timur Kocaoğlu (ed.),Turkic World Phrase Guide in 8 Turkic Languages. İstanbul, 1992.

Timur Kocaoğlu, “Could Afghanistan Be A Key to Asian Cooperation And Security?” Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs (Ankara), Vol. V, No. 4 (December 2000 – February 2001); pp. 106-115

Timur Kocaoğlu, “Turkestan Abroad: The Political Migration: From the Soviet & Chinese Central Asia (1918-1997)”, Migration in Central Asia: Its History and Current Problems. Osaka: The Japan Center for Area Studies, 2000; p. 113-126

EDITORIAL BOARDS

Türklük Araştırmaları Dergisi, Marmara University; Türkiyat Dergisi, Selçuk University; Eurasian Political Economy and

Public Studies Series, Michigan State University Press

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Academic

1994-present; Associate Professor of Literature, Koç University

1985-1988; Assistant and Associate Professor, Marmara University

Industry Experience

1977-1985 and 1988-1994, Broadcaster, editor, and research analyst, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc.

AWARDS

Won Second Prize for his Turkish-language story “Şapkalar” (The Hats) at the 7th Ömer Seyfettin Story Contest in March 1996 by Türk Edebiyat Vakfı

MEMBER

Stockholm Collegium on World Literature, Stockholm University, since 2009

Kazakistan Academy of Humanities, since May 1998 Turkish Language Society (Türk Dil Kurumu, Ankara), since 1995

Ayaz-Tahir Turkistan Idil-Ural Research Foundation since 1988

The Research Institute of Turkish Culture (Türk Kültürünü Araştırma Enstitüsü), since 1979

CENTRAL ASIA, TURKIC WORLD, HISTORY, LANGUAGES, CULTURE, AND GENDER

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