Seçil Yılmaz


Instructor

The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History
Bogaziçi University
34342 Bebek-Istanbul / Turkey

e-mail: secil.yilmaz@boun.edu.tr

phone:  +90-212-359
fax:       +90-212-265 80 03 (Atatürk Institute)



 

   



EDUCATION

Ph.D 2005- The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Boğaziçi University

MA 2003-2005 The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Boğaziçi University
Thesis: “Visualization of Culture, History and Memory in Turkey: Museum Politics in the Post-1980”

BA 1998-2003 Department of History (Major) and Department of Sociology (Minor), Middle East Technical University

LANGUAGES

English - proficient
Spanish - intermediate
German - elementary
Modern Greek - elementary
French - elementary

SCHOLARSHIPS

November 2005 Scholarship for Participation to the Conference organized by Government of Catalonia and Interarts on “Culture in the Mediterranean Space”, 23-25 November 2005.

March 2005 Roberto Cimetta Fund, Travel Grant (for the participation to the FAM-Forum for the Arts in the Mediterranean, Cultural Management Workshop, 7-14 March 2005, Tunis [ Supported by Amuni (Paris), El Teatro (Tunis) and Meridie( Rome)]

August 2003 Ministry of Exterior Affairs of Spain (MAE), Spanish International Co-operation Agency (AECI), Scholarship for Language, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (August 2003)

ACADEMIC WORK EXPERINECES

2006-Present Instructor, The Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Boğaziçi University, Turkey.

2004-2006 Research Assistant in the Office of International Relations in the position of Advisor to Exchange/Erasmus and Special Students.

September 2003-April 2004 Volunteer to the Project of Promoting Human Rights in Textbooks Project financed by European Commission, Open Society Institute and Foundation for Economic and Social History of Turkey.

Summer 2001 Volunteer in the Department of Publication in the Foundation for Economic and Social History of Turkey; Assistant in the editing of the periodicals Toplumsal Tarih (Social History) and İstanbul.