The MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies

Yale University 

P.O. Box 208206, New Haven, CT 06520-8206

gaye.ilhan@yale.edu

http://sites.google.com/site/ilhandemiryol/home

Yale University, New Haven, CT 

       Postdoctoral Associate, The MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, 2010-2012. 

       Lecturer, Department of Political Science,  Spring 2011-2012. 

    Ph.D. in Political Science, May 2010.

    M.Phil. in Political Science, May 2006.

    M.A. in Political Science, December 2003.

        Examination fields: Political Philosophy, Contemporary Theory, Comparative Politics.

        Dissertation: Philosophy of History and the Modern Problem of Freedom in Hannah Arendt’s Thought Committee: Seyla Benhabib (Chair), Bryan Garsten, Karuna Mantena

    Visiting Scholar, Spring 2007

    BA in Political Science and Sociology, Highest Honors, June 2002.

Political Philosophy, Continental Political Theory, History of Political Thought, Contemporary Political Theory, Political Ideologies, Democratic Theory, States and Regimes, Nationalism. 

PUBLICATIONS 

Peer-reviewed : “Film as a Mobilizing Agent? Adorno and Benjamin on Aesthetic Experience” forthcoming in  Philosophy & Social Criticism.

Book review: Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin’s “On the Concept of History” by Michael Loewy, Political Studies Review, vol. 6, January 2008.

Solicited: “Elestirel Teori’de Bir Ozgurlesme Araci Olarak Sanat.” (Art as a Means to Emancipation in Critical Theory) in Toplum ve Bilim, 110: 2007. 

Peer-reviewed: “Arendt and Benjamin: Modernity, Tradition, and History as Progress” (under review)  

                      “Arendt and Kant on History and Spectatorship” (under review)

Solicited: “Progress” in Encyclopedia of Political Thought

Book Manuscript: Philosophy of History and Freedom in Arendt’s Thought.

“Arendt and Kant on History and Spectatorship” presented at New England Political Science Association, 2011 Annual Meeting, Hartford, CT (April 29-30)

Discussant Presentation, “Philosophy, Science and Liberalism: Locke’s Reform Projects” paper by Peter Josephson, presented at New England Political Science Association, 2011 Annual Meeting, Hartford, CT (April 29-30)

Chair, “Arendt and Love” Panel, The Hannah Arendt Circle, Fifth Independent Conference,   Cleveland, OH (April 8-10)

"Arendt, Benjamin and History as Progress" presented at American Political Science Association, 2010 Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. (September 1-4) and Midwest Political Science Association, 2010 Annual Meeting, Chicago (April 22-25)

Discussant Presentation, “Republicanisms” panel, presented at Midwest Political Science Association, 2010 Annual Meeting, Chicago (April 22-25)

“On Action, Freedom and History: Arendt’s critique of Marx” presented at Midwest Political Science Association, 2009 Annual Meeting, Chicago(April 2-5)

Discussant Presentation, “Guilt and Responsibility” panel, presented at Midwest Political Science Association, 2009 Annual Meeting, Chicago (April 2-5)

Discussant Presentation, “Past Voices and Future Perspectives” panel, presented at Northeastern Political Science Association, 2008 Annual Meeting, Boston (November 13-15)

“Hegel's Philosophy of History: An Arendtian Critique” presented at the Political Theory Workshop, Yale University, October 2008.

Discussant Presentation, “Publius and Political Imagination” paper by Jason Frank, presented at the Political Theory Workshop, Yale University, November 2007. 

“Film as a Mobilizing Agent? Adorno and Benjamin on Aesthetic Experience” presented at American Political Science Association, 2007 Annual Meeting, Chicago (August 30-September 2)

"Arendt and the Concept of History" presented at Invited Talk, Political Philosophy Colloquium, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, June 2007 and Northeastern Political Science Association, 2006 Annual Meeting, Boston (November 9-11)

Discussant Presentation, “Paradoxes in Kant’s Account of Citizenship” paper by Ronald Beiner, presented at the Political Theory Workshop, Yale University, April 2006. 

“Art as Emancipation? Benjamin and Adorno on Art, Progress and Technological Innovation” presented at Northeastern Political Science Association, 2004 Annual Meeting, Boston (November 11-13) and Political Philosophy Colloquium, Yale University, October 2004.

2010-2012  Postdoctoral Fellowship, Yale University

2007-2008  Yale University Dissertation Fellowship

2007             Baden-Wuerttemberg Stipendium (Government Fellowship, Baden- Wuerttemberg, Germany)

2002-2006  Yale University Doctoral Fellowship 

Department of Political Science, Yale University:

    Lecturer:  “Freedom in Western Political Thought”, Fall 2011. 

                  “For The Love of The World: Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought,” Spring 2011. 

    Guest Lecturer:  “’Political not Metaphysical’ and John Rawls’ Legacy,” The Moral Foundations of Politics, Spring 2011. 

    Writing Intensive Section Teaching Fellow: 

        Assessed drafts of student writing, conducted individual sessions with students to improve writing quality, led two weekly discussion sections, helped prepare homework assignments and examinations, assessed and     

            graded student work. 

        PLSC 118, The Moral Foundations of Politics, Prof. Ian Shapiro, Spring 2010.    

PLSC 252, Crime and Punishment, Prof. Gregory Huber, Fall 2008, 2005.

    Teaching Fellow:

        Led two weekly discussion sections, helped prepare homework assignments and examinations, assessed and graded student work, created and set up visual material for lectures.

        PLSC 293, Continental Political Thought from Weber to Derrida, Prof. Maurizio Passerin d’Entreves, Spring 2009; Prof. Seyla Benhabib, Spring 2006.

        PLSC 118, The Moral Foundations of Politics, Prof. Ian Shapiro, Spring 2005.

        PLSC 114, Introduction to Political Philosophy, Prof. Steven Smith, Fall 2004.

    Grading Assistant:

        Assessed and graded weekly memos, midterm exams and final reports, wrote weekly assignments and midterm questions.

        PLSC359a, Violence and Civil Strife, Prof. Stathis Kalyvas, Fall 2009.

 Department of Philosophy and Political Science, Quinnipiac University:

       Guest Lecturer: “Totalitarianism”, PO 101: Introduction to Politics: Justice, Power and Politics, Spring 2011, Fall 2010. 

Graduate Teaching Center, Yale University: 

        Consultant, Fall 2010.

        Advanced Teaching Series Coordinator, 2009-2010.

        Teaching Fellow, 2008-2010 and 2005-2006.

        Organized and led workshops for Graduate Teaching Assistants: Advanced Teaching Series: Peer Learning, Section Planning, Discussion Techniques; Fundamentals of Teaching Political Science;  Teaching Panel with Prize Teaching Fellows; Promoting Gender Equality in the Classroom; Introduction to Teaching in the USA for International Teaching Assistants; Fundamentals of Teaching Texts in the Humanities.

Led training sessions, conducted individual consulting sessions.

Undergraduate Student Advisor, Yale College, Spring 2011-2012. 

Postdoctoral Advisory Committee Member, Yale Office for Postdoctoral Affairs, 2010-2012. 

President, Graduate Club, Yale Friends of Turkey, Yale University, 2005-2006.

The Certificate of College Teaching Preparation, Spring 2010. 

        Awarded upon successful completion of a comprehensive training program in effective college teaching 

        including lecture observation, teaching consultations, and teacher training workshops.

Graduate Teaching Center, Yale University:

Workshops attended: Fundamentals of Teaching Text in the Humanities, Effective Feedback, Teaching with Technology, Media Literacy for Classroom Presentations: Finding, Using, Citing. 

Writing Requirement Course Teacher Training, Yale College Writing Center, Fall 2005.

Research Assistant, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, 2008-2009.

Graduate Assistant, The Roots of Islamic Radicalism Conference, Yale University, May 8-9, 2004.

Research Assistant to Department of Education Title VI Grant Proposal, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale 

Center for International and Area Studies, Spring 2003.

Turkish (native), English (native fluency), French (excellent), German (good).