NİSA GÖKSEL HOME: 100 Hesburgh Center OFFICE: Kroc Institute for International Notre Dame, IN 45556 Peace Studies (312) 912-5359 University of Notre Dame ngoksel@nd.edu Notre Dame, IN 45556 EDUCATION Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), Ph.D., Sociology, 2017 Committee: Ann Shola Orloff (Chair), Héctor Carrillo, Fatma Müge Göçek, Celeste Watkins- Hayes Dissertation: Reconfiguring the Political: Kurdish Women s Resistance from the Local to the Transnational Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), M.A., Sociology, 2011 Committee: Ann Shola Orloff (Chair), Nicola Beisel Thesis: Negotiated and Contested Identities: Kurdish Women s Struggle for Peace in Turkey SciencesPo (Paris, France), Visiting Scholarship, The Observatoire Sociologique du Changemen (OSC), Spring 2015 and Spring 2013 Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), M.A., Sociology and Social Anthropology, 2008 Committee: Prem Kumar Rajaram (Chair), Alexandra Kowalski Thesis: Women on the Margins of Life and Death: Honor Crime and Governmentality in Turkey Bogaziçi University (Istanbul, Turkey), B.A. Sociology and History (Double Major), 2007 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN), Visiting Research Fellow, 2017-2018 Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
RESEARCH INTERESTS Gender and Sexuality; Political and Comparative Studies; War, Violence, and Peace; Migration, Displacement and Diaspora Studies; Feminist and Women s Movements in the Middle East; Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Theory; Transnationalism. PUBLICATIONS Book Monograph (M.A Thesis) Goksel, Nisa. 2008. Women on the Margins of Life and Death: Honor Crime and Governmentality in Turkey [M.A Thesis], VDM-Verlag Publishing: Germany. Publications in Referred Journals Göksel, Nisa. 2015. Ulus-Ötesinde Öteki Politik Özneler: Avrupa da Kürt Kadınlarının Siyasi, Toplumsal ve Kültürel Mücadeleleri. (Other Political Subjectivities in a Transnational Space: Kurdish Women s Political, Social and Cultural Struggles in Europe) Modus Operandi, 3: 11-45. Other Publications Göksel, Nisa. 2012. Michel Foucault da Iktidar Kurma Pratikleri: Turkiye de Kadin Bedenini, Namusu ve Siddeti Yeniden Dusunmek. (The Practices of Power in M. Foucault s Work: Rethinking Body, Honor and Violence in Turkey) Cogito: Michel Foucault Ozel Sayisi, 70 (Summer). Göksel, Nisa. 2009. Toplumsal Cinsiyet Iliskileri: Neo-liberalizm ve Aile Soylemleri. (Gender Relations, Neo-Liberalism, and Discourses of Family) Birikim, 243. Göksel, Nisa. 2009. A Brief Evaluation of the Notion of Honor and the Issue of Honor Crime Organizational Dimensions and Women s Activism: The Case of Turkey. MP: An Online Feminist Journal: 2(3). INVITED ARTICLES Göksel, Nisa. Displaced Struggle: Kurdish Women s Political Mobilization Across Borders. Invited to the edited volume, Kurds in Turkey: Politics, Violence and Resistance. (working title) Fatma Muge Gocek and Ayca Alemdaroglu (eds.). Göksel, Nisa. (Forthcoming in Fall 2017). Peace and Beyond: Women s Activist Alliances under Turkey s Regime of Emergency. Invited to the journal of Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory.
WORK IN PROGRESS Göksel, Nisa. Mobilizing Motherhood as an Alternative Form of Politics: The Peace Mothers' Political Struggle in Turkey, Manuscript in preparation for submission to the journal of Women s Studies International Forum. Göksel, Nisa, Jaimie Morse, and John Hagan, From the 1980s to 2000s: The Shifting Discourses of War, Terrorism, and Sexual Violence in Turkey, Manuscript in Progress. PRESENTATIONS Göksel, Nisa, Struggle in Exile: Kurdish Women s Political Engagements in Europe, Kurdish Politics Conference, Evanston, 2016. Göksel, Nisa, Displaced Struggle: Kurdish Women s Political Mobilization Across Borders, American Sociological Association (ASA), Seattle, 2016. Göksel, Nisa & Jaimie Morse, From the 1980s to 2000s: The Shifting Discourses of War, Terrorism, and Sexual Violence in Turkey, Comparative-Historical Mini Conference (CHS), Seattle, 2016. Göksel, Nisa, Alternatif Siyasi Alanda Annelik: Barış Anneleri nin Politik ve Etik Mücadelesini Anlamak, (Mothering in an Alternative Political Field: Thinking the Political and Ethic Struggle of the Peace Mothers) Sabanci University Gender Forum Dicle Kogacioglu Article Award Ceremony Conference, Istanbul, 2016. Göksel, Nisa, Moral and Political Force of Motherhood: Peace Mothers Alternative Form of Politics, American Sociological Association (ASA), Chicago, 2015. Göksel, Nisa, Peace at Multiple Fronts: From the Reconciliation with the Turkish State to Local Peace Commissions, the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Ankara, 2014. Göksel, Nisa, Stories of Identity, Violence, and Displacement: Activism across Space, the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting (SSHA), Chicago, 2013. Göksel, Nisa, Kurdish Women s Activism Across Space: Narratives of War, Violence, and Migration, American Graduate School Conference, Paris, 2013. Göksel, Nisa, Motherhood as a Contested Space: Kurdish Mothers Struggle for Peace, Engendering Change Conference, University of Illinois, Chicago, 2013. Göksel, Nisa, We are Mothers and We Support Peace: Kurdish Women s Political Activism in Diyarbakir, Comparative Historical Social Sciences Workshop, Northwestern University, 2013.
Göksel, Nisa, Ethnicity versus Gender: Stories of Peace and Trauma in Turkey, Middle Eastern Studies Association Conference (MESA), Denver, 2012. Göksel, Nisa, Feminism or Motherhood? Some Theoretical Considerations, Eastern Sociological Society (ESS), New York, 2012. Göksel, Nisa, Negotiated and Contested Identities: Women s Struggle for Peace in Turkey, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting (ASA), Las Vegas, 2011. Göksel, Nisa, Honor Trouble: Honor Crime and Governmental Discourses in Turkey, Annual Meeting of Eastern Sociological Society (ESS), Boston, 2010. AWARDS 2016-2017 The American Association of University Women International Fellowship 2016 KOC University KOC-KAM Gender Studies Center Nermin Abadan Unat Social Science Award 2016 Buffett Center Graduate Student Award 2016 Northwestern University Graduate Research Grant 2015 Sabanci University Dicle Koğacıoğlu Annual Article Award 2015 Northwestern University Sociology Department Karpf Peace Prize 2015 SciencesPo-Northwestern Visiting and Research Fellowship 2014-2015 Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund 2014 MacArthur Summer Research Grant with Jaimie Morse (PhD candidate at Northwestern University) and Prof. John Hagan 2014 Northwestern University Buffett Center Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Summer Research Award 2014 Northwestern University Graduate Research Grant 2013 SciencesPo-Northwestern Visiting and Research Fellowship 2013 Northwestern University Sociology Department Research Fellowship
2013 Equality Development and Globalization Studies Summer Research Award 2012 Northwestern University The Sexualities Project Summer Research Grant 2011 Buffett Center Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Summer Research Award 2010 Buffett Center Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Summer Research Award 2009 Northwestern University Gender and Sexuality Studies Cluster Mellon Foundation Fellowship TEACHING EXPERIENCE Lecturer, Sociology of Gender: A Focus on Nations, States, and Revolutions, Sociology Department, Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey), Summer 2016 Lecturer, Sociology of Gender: A Focus on Nations, States, and Nationalism(s), Sociology Department, Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey), Summer 2015 Teaching Assistant, Race and Society, Fall 2012 Teaching Assistant, Gender and Society, Spring 2012 Teaching Assistant, Gender and Society, Winter 2012 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Sociology, Fall 2011 Teaching Assistant, Sexuality and Society, Spring 2011 Teaching Assistant, Youth and Society, Winter 2011 Teaching Assistant, Sociology of Organizations, Fall 2010 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Sociology, Northwestern University, Spring 2010 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS Communications Section of the Graduate Student Committee of Sociology Department at Northwestern University, Co-representative, 2012-2013 Graduate Liaisons (university-wide) of the Graduate Student Committee of Sociology Department at Northwestern University, Coordinator, 2011-2012 American Sociological Association (ASA), Member, 2012-present
Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), Member, 2012-present Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA), Member, 2011-2014 Northwestern University Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches in the Field of Turkish Studies Conference, Discussant, 2014 Northwestern University Translocations: Travel, Migration and Sexuality Conference, Commentator, 2010 Women for Peace Initiative (Istanbul, Turkey), Member, 2009-Present Foundation of Women s Library and Information Center (Istanbul, Turkey), Voluntary Work, 2008-2009 Books4 Life Association at Tilburg University, Voluntary Work, 2005. Social Work in Bogazici University, Tutor for Visually Impaired Students, 2003-2007 LANGUAGES & COMPUTER SKILLS Languages: Turkish (native); English (excellent); and French (advanced) Computer Skills: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, SPSS and STATA.