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School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University

Research and Teaching

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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, Fuat Keyman

 

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.

 

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