Cirriculum Vitae



Hamid Akin Unver

517 Cherry Street

Ann Arbor, MI, 48103

Phone: 202-549-7816

E-mail: akinunver@ (preferred correspondence)

Education

▪ PhD candidate in International Relations

University of Essex (Essex, United Kingdom)

Thesis title “A comparative analysis of the US Senate, EU Parliament amd Turkish National Assembly discourse on Turkey’s Kurdish question”: 1991-1999”

Supervisor: Professor David McKay

Status: Final year; expected completion Summer 2009

▪ MSc in European Studies

Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey)

Dissertation title “The impact of the European Union on the Turco-Hellenic conflict”

(Honors) 2003 – 2006

▪ B.A. in International Relations

Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey)

(Honors) 1999 – 2003

▪ TED Ankara College (Ankara, Turkey)

1987 – 1999

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2 Work and Internship Experience

University of Michigan, Center for the Middle East and North African Studies

(Research Associate)

January 2009 – current

Undertaking two research projects on

□ Kurdish nationalism and post-conflict Iraq

□ A comparative analysis of Turkish and Kurdish nationalist narratives within the context of victimhood

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

(Research Assistant and Marcia Robbins – Wilf Young Scholar; Turkish Research Program)

June 2007 – July 2008

□ Supported senior Fellow Dr. Soner Cagaptay in research and in writing

□ Researched topics including Turkish domestic and foreign policy, elections, U.S.-Turkish relations, E.U-Turkish relations, the PKK, the Turkish constitutional system, & the Kurdish regional government in Iraq.

□ Edited policy papers and articles for publication. Wrote event summaries and news updates.

□ Prepared briefing materials, maps, and charts for conferences and presentations.

□ Coordinated media appearances, events, travel logistics, and finances.

□ Organized and participated in research trip to Turkey & Israel

University of Essex, Department of Government

(Teaching Assistant)

September 2006 – May 2007

□ Taught three weekly undergraduate sections in GV 214‘Theories of International Relations.’

□ Graded essays and exams.

Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Protocol Department

(Special Assistant to Ambassador Hakan Kıvanç & Personnel Supervisor)

May – September 2004

□ Supervised Protocol Department personnel.

□ Assisted in logistical preparations for 2004 NATO Istanbul Summit.

European Center for Strategic Studies (ASAM)

(Research Assistant, European Union Studies Department)

June – July 2002

□ Monitored news on Turkey-EU relations & assisted policy analysts’ research.

□ Translated legal documents from English to Turkish and from Turkish to English.

(Research Intern, Middle East Studies Department)

July – August 2002

□ Monitored news and events concerning Turkey’s relations with the Middle Eastern countries.

□ Assisted policy analysts’ research.

European Union General Secretariat (EUGS)

(Intern, Department of National Program)

May – June 2002

□ Translated EU documents.

□ Assisted in the preparation of the institution’s website (.tr).

Publications and conference participations

▪ Turkey’s ‘Ergenekon’ case: Democratization or take-over?

The Middle East Journal (Forthcoming)

▪ AKP, discourse polarization and party discipline

Turkish Daily News, September 29, 2008.

▪ Turkey’s evolved Islamists versus unevolved secularists?

Turkish Daily News, July 22, 2008.

▪ Will the Turkish Constitutional Court Ban the AKP? (with Soner Cagaptay and Hale Arifagaoglu) The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policywatch series #1355. March 19, 2008

▪ The Future of U.S. – Turkish relations and the Turkish perspective; speech made at the Assembly of Turkish-American Associations Annual Conference. May 17, 2008

▪ Post-PKK Operations: Will Turkey change its attitude towards Iran and Syria?

Turkish Daily News. February 4, 2008

▪ Iraqi Kurds and the Turkish-Iraqi Memorandum against the PKK (with Soner Cagaptay) Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policywatch series #1275. August 21, 2007

▪ Cabinet, President, Referendum: Turkey's Complex Political Calendar

Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policywatch series #1271. August 10, 2007

▪ Turkish Elections: Winners and Fault Lines (with Soner Cagaptay) Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Research Note series #10. July 9, 2007

▪ The Greek-Turkish conflict over the Orthodox Patriarchate of Istanbul paper presented in joint conference by the Hellenic Foundation for International Studies (ELIAMEP) and Istanbul Policy Center (IPC) titled “Conflict Resolution and Building Peace”, Athens, Greece. Same paper has also been presented in Istanbul, Turkey in the second leg of the conference. February 2006

▪ Turkish Foreign Policy towards Europeanization or de-Americanization? Reflections from Helsinki Summit to Iraq War paper presented in Jean-Monet seminar “Europe as an identity card?”, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. May 2005

Media

▪ Hiding in Rugged Terrain. (with Soner Cagaptay) Prepared a map and gave a phone interview to Archie Tse from the New York Times regarding the positions of the PKK camps in Northern Iraq and a history of how the group operates in Kurdish Regional Government territory. The map was published in the New York Times on October 28, 2007



The same map also appeared several Turkish newspapers and online media and sparked a controversial debate in Turkey regarding the re-consideration of the Turkish-Iraqi border.









Awards

▪ Marcia Robbins – Wilf Young Scholarship; a research merit; The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. November 2007

▪ Full PhD scholarship; The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. June 2006

▪ Jean Monet Research Scholarship, spent on library research and academic interviews in the London School of Economics (LSE) and Oxford University, United Kingdom. March 2004

▪ Tuition waiver, Bilkent University, sophomore, junior and senior years.

Languages

▪ Turkish – native

▪ English – fluent

▪ Azeri – written: intermediate / spoken: fair

▪ French – written: advanced (able to translate from) / spoken: fair

▪ German – written: intermediate (able to translate from) / spoken: beginner

List of references:

1 – Soner Cagaptay, PhD

(Director, Turkish Research Program – The Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

phone: 202-452-0650

email: scagaptay@

2- Ambassador (ret.) Robert Finn, PhD

(Lecturer, Department of the Near East Studies – Princeton University)

phone: 609-258-4280

email: finn@princeton.edu

3- Hasan Bulent Kahraman, PhD

(Professor, Department of Political Science – Sabanci University, Turkey)

phone: +90 – 216 – 483 – 9000

email: kahraman@sabanciuniv.edu

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