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Text Box: Halit Mustafa Tagma PhD Candidate & Instructor School of Politics and Global Studies Arizona State University Box 873902 Tempe, AZ 85287-3902, USA Tel: +1 (480) 248-4488 Fax: +1 (480) 965-3929 Email: Web: http://www.public.asu.edu/~htagma/ EDUCATION Ph.D. Candidate Political Science, Arizona State University. Defense: March, 2010. Major: International Relations, Minor: Comparative Politics Dissertation Title: “That Dangerous Discipline: The Function and Place of the International Relations Discipline in the Modern University” Dissertation Committee: Richard K. Ashley, Roxanne L. Doty, and Fuat Keyman M.A., Political Science & Public Adm., Bilkent University, 2002 Thesis Title: “The Impact of Globalization on National Security: The Turkish Case”. Thesis Committee: Aylin Guney, Fuat Keyman, Pinar Bilgin. B.A., Political Science & Public Adm., Bilkent University, Honors, 2001 Areas of Concentration: International Relations, Comparative Politics. ACADEMIC POSITIONS Instructor, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University. 2006-2009 Teaching Assistant/Research Assistant, Richard K. Ashley, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University. 2003-2008 Team Supervisor for Phoenix Socio-Economic Survey, Joint project of Arizona State University and the City of Phoenix, 2004 Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, Bilkent University. 2001-2002 RESEARCH Major Interests: International Relations Theory, IR Disciplinary History, International Security and Nuclear Disarmament. Other Interests: Sovereignty, Biopower and Postcolonialism, European Union and Turkish Politics Academic Publications (peer-reviewed) “Realism at the Limits: Post Cold War Realism and Nuclear Disarmament” Contemporary Security Policy, (accepted Volume 31, Issue 1, 2010 ($10,000 Essay Competition Finalist) “Biopower as a Supplement to Sovereign Power: Prison Camps, War, and the Production of Excluded Bodies” in Sheila Nair, Shampa Biswas eds. 2009 International Relations and States of Exception: Margins, Peripheries and Excluded Bodies. Routledge, ISBN 978-0415776950 & 978-0203868683. “Homo Sacer vs. Homo Soccer Mom: Reading Foucault and Agamben in the ‘War on Terror’”, 2009, under review. “Putting Turkey’s Persistent Quest for European Union Membership into Perspective: A Historical Institutionalist Approach", 2009, co-authored with Dr. Isa Camyar, under review. Manuscripts Edited Book Project: Richard K. Ashley and Halit Mustafa Tagma eds. “The Crisis of the University in Modernity”. Preliminary talks with a major university press. “Kant’s Architectonics of Reason and IR’s place in the modern university”, in preparation for major journal. “Limits of the Kantian ‘Public Use of Reason’: International Studies Association, the War on Iraq, and Responsible Scholarship”, in preparation for major journal. “That Dangerous Industry: IR Scholarship after 9/11”, in preparation for major journal. Conference Papers Forthcoming, “International Relations and Philosophy in the Modern University”, paper presentation at the ISA Annual Convention, 2010, New Orleans. “IR as the Dangerous Supplement to Philosophy” paper presentation at the Annual Convention of International Studies Association, 2009 New York. “Biopower as a Supplement to Sovereign Power: Prison Camps and the Production of Excluded Bodies” Paper presentation at panel with book authors at the Annual Convention of International Studies Association, 2009, New York. “Crisis, Critique and the Court of Reason: The University in Abandon” co-authored with Richard K. Ashley and presented at the Annual Convention of International Studies Association, 2008, San Francisco. “Why Does Turkey Seek European Union Membership?: A Historical Institutionalist Explanation" co-authored with Isa Camyar and presented at the Annual Convention of International Studies Association, 2008, San Francisco. “Nuclear Disarmament and Structural Realism” presented at the Annual Convention of American Political Science Association, 2007, Chicago. “Disciplining a Discipline: Reading 9/11 through the Anarchy Problematique,” Annual Convention of the International Studies Association 2007, Chicago, Illinois. “Facing the Theoretical and Empirical Challenge: Can Offensive/Defensive Realism Predict Disarmament?” Presented at the Annual Convention of ISA-West 2006, Las Vegas. “Empire’s Outside: A Critical Reading of Biopower in Hardt and Negri,” Presented at the Annual Convention of the American Political Science Association 2006, Philadelphia. "Sovereignty, Governmentality and the State of Exception: The Camp as the Constitutive Outside," Presented at the Annual convention of International Studies Association 2006, San Diego. “Why do States Give Up the Bomb? Toward Realist Explanations of Nuclear Disarmament,” Annual convention of International Studies Association March 1-5 2005, Honolulu. “De-Territorialization, Re-Territorialization and Sovereignty: Constructing the National Identity,” Presented at: “The Local and the Global: Contexts in Science and Technology” The American Association for the Advancement of Science, April, 12 2003 Washington D.C. (Received NSF-travel grant# 0242955). Research Assistant Experience: Professor Carolyn Warner, Research Assistance on Islam and Europe Professor Miki Kittilson, Research Assistance on Gender and Elections Academic Workshops The Consortium on Qualitative Research Methods of Syracuse University, Two week intensive workshop, ASU, January 2007. Arizona State University Graduate College Workshops for ‘Preparing Future Faculty’. Arizona State University Library Workshops: Refworks, advanced Refworks; Technology Office, Blackboard Workshop. TEACHING University-wide Teaching Excellence Award Nominee, 2009 (selection in process) Honors Disciplinary Faculty, Barrett Honor’s College, Arizona State University, 2006-7. Courses Taught POS 160: Global Politics (2006, 2007-Honors). POS 300: Contemporary Controversies in World Politics (2006, 2007, 2008). POS 360: World Politics (2007, 2008). POS 350: Comparative Politics (2008). UNI 110: Critical Reading and Critical Thinking (2008, 2009, four sections). UNI 194: Academic Success, (2009, two sections). Teaching Assistantships POS 160 Global Politics 2003-2008 (with Richard K. Ashley). POS 150 Comparative Politics 2006 (with Christina Schlaztman). POS 360 World Politics and Global Terrorism 2005 (with Timothy Ruback). POS 495 International Organization 2004 (with Richard K. Ashley). POS 591 State and Modern Subject 2004 (designed course content for graduate class with Richard K. Ashley). Courses that I can Teach International Organization (Graduate/Undergraduate) International Security (Graduate/Undergraduate) International Relations Theory (Graduate/Undergraduate) Research Methods for Political Science (Graduate/Undergraduate) U.S. Foreign Policy (Graduate/Undergraduate) Comparative Politics (Graduate/Undergraduate) Democratization (Graduate/Undergraduate) European Politics (Graduate/Undergraduate) Middle Eastern Politics (Graduate/Undergraduate) Introduction to Political Science (Undergraduate) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND ASSOCIATIONS Co-Founder and Executive Board Member of Turkish International Studies Association (an official cooperating organization of ISA responsible for several panel selections), 2006-2010. Reviewer for International Studies Association’s Compendium Project, 2009.International Political Sociology Section. International Ethics Section. Reviewer for University-wide Dissertation and Research Grants (Total Grants exceed $100,000), Arizona State University, Graduate Professional Student Association, 2009. Reviewer for proposals to Turkish-ISA, allocation of three panel quotas to ISA annual conventions, 2006-2010. Course Development Assistance, Arizona State University Academic Success Programs, 2009. Teaching Peer-Reviewer for Graduate Student Instructors, Arizona State University, 2009. Organizer and Chair of numerous ISA Convention panels, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010. Library Committee, Graduate member, Arizona State University, 2008-2010. Member of American Political Science Association, 2006- Qualitative Methods Section Member of International Studies Association, 2005- International Political Sociology. International Ethics. International Security. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS $10,500 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Graduate College, Arizona State University, 2009. Teaching Excellence Award Nominee (University-wide selection in process), Arizona State University, 2009 $10,000 Essay Competition Finalist. Administered by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Essays were submitted from over a dozen countries, and twenty universities. Title: “Why do States Give Up the Bomb? A Defensive Realist Analysis of Nuclear Disarmament” 2009. Honors Disciplinary Faculty, Barrett Honor’s College, Arizona State University, 2007. Graduate Tuition Scholarship, Arizona State University 2003-2009. Travel Grant from ISA, Graduate and Professional Student Association, Graduate College, School of Politics and Global Studies for ISA, 2009, $1170. Travel Grant from ISA, Graduate and Professional Student Association, Graduate College, , School of Politics and Global Studies for ISA, 2008, $750. Travel Grant from Graduate and Professional Student Association, Graduate College, , School of Politics and Global Studies for APSA, 2006, $950. Travel Grant from ISA, Graduate and Professional Student Association, Graduate College, , School of Politics and Global Studies for ISA, 2006, $850. NSF Travel Grant (# 0242955) for The American Association for the Advancement of Science Conference, 2003. Graduate Tuition Scholarship, Bilkent University, 2001-2002. Honors Undergraduate, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2001. Languages: Turkish (native), English (native-like fluency), French (Basic Reading), Arabic (Basic Reading). Computing Skills: SPSS, R Statistics, Webpage Development, Microsoft Office Programs. Visa Status: Permanent Resident of the United States (Green Card) References: Richard K. Ashley (dissertation supervisor) School of Politics and Global Studies Arizona State University Box 873902 Tempe, AZ 85287-3902 Fax: (480) 965-3929 Phone: (480) 213-9979 Email: Richard.Ashley@asu.edu Roxanne L. Doty School of Politics and Global Studies Arizona State University Box 873902 Tempe, AZ 85287-3902 Fax: (480) 965-3929 Phone: (480) 965-6551 Email: Roxanne.Doty@asu.edu Fuat Keyman Dean, Department of International Relations College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Koc University Rumelifeneri Yolu, Sarıyer 89010 - Istanbul- TURKEY Phone:  90 (0212) 338 1730 E-mail: fkeyman@ku.edu.tr Miki Kittilson School of Politics and Global Studies Arizona State University Box 873902 Tempe, AZ 85287-3902 Fax: (480) 965-3929 Phone: (480) 965-6551 Email: miki.kittilson@asu.edu Carolyn Warner School of Politics and Global Studies Arizona State University Box 873902 Tempe, AZ 85287-3902 Fax: (480) 965-3929 Phone: (480) 965-6551 Email: Carolyn.warner@asu.edu