Theses in Humanities and Social Sciences - 2009

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences

History

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Selda Altan	Selçuk Esenbel	Sighting the Ottomans from the east: chinese intellectual transition from imperial to national imagination through the Ottomans at the turn of the twentieth century	M.A.
Betül İpşirli Argıt	Edhem Eldem	Manumitted female slaves of the Ottoman Imperial Harem (sarayîs) in the eighteenth century Istanbul	Ph.D
Lorans Zabel Baruh	Edhem Eldem	The Transformation of the ‘modern’ axis of nineteenth-century Istanbul: property, investments and elites from Taksim Square to Sirkeci Station	Ph.D
Mehmet Beşikçi	Selim Deringil	Between voluntarism and resistance: The Ottoman mobilization of manpower in the First World War	Ph.D
Ali Erken	Derin Terzioğlu	A historical analysis of Melami-Bayrami hagiographies	M.A.
Merih Erol	Edhem Eldem	Cultural identifications of the Greek Orthodox elite of Constantinople: discourse on music in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries	Ph.D
Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci	Selçuk Esenbel	HAYMATLOS! exile: Turkey, Traugott Fuchs’ landscape of reconciliation	M.A.
Banu Kaygusuz	Selçuk Esenbel	Poetics and politics of photography: The representation of Japan in the photography collection of Abdulhamid II	M.A.
Elektra Kostopoulou	Edhem Eldem	The muslim millet of autonomous Crete: An exploration into its origins and implications	Ph.D
Dilek Özkan	Vangelis Kechriotis	Philanthropy and appropriation policies towards the orphans and foundlings of the Greek Orthodox Community of Istanbul, (1852-1908)	M.A.
Fatma Sel Turhan	Yusuf Hakan Erdem, Yavuz Selim Karakışla	Rebelling for the old order: Ottoman Bosnia, 1826-1836	Ph.D
Maria Vasileiou	Vangelis Kechriotis	Conversion in the Late Ottoman Empire: a case study on the legal status of Greek Orthodox converted to Islam, 1856-1908	M.A.
Ceyda Yüksel	Yavuz Selim Karakışla	Buçuk millet: The Ottoman Gypsies in the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II (1876-1909)	M.A.

Linguistics

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Tamer Akan	Balkız Öztürk	On scrambling in Turkish	M.A.
Ayşegül Can	Didar Akar	Impoliteness in computer mediated communication	M.A.
Betül Emgin	Balkız Öztürk- Başaran	Finiteness and complementation patterns in Pazar Laz	M.A.
Kadir Gökgöz	A. Sumru Özsoy	Topics in Turkish sign language (Türk İşaret Dili – TİD) syntax: verb movement, negation and clausal architecture	M.A.
Seda Kan	Meltem Kelepir-Wood	Prosodic domains and the syntax-prosody mapping in Turkish	M.A.
Tülin Keçeli	Aslı Göksel	Rhetorical yes/no questions in Turkish	M.A.
Dilek Uygun	Aslı Göksel	A split model for category specification: lexical categories in Turkish	Ph.D
Neslihan Yumrutaş	Mine Nakipoğlu Demiralp	Acquisition of relative clauses in Turkish	M.A.

Philosophy

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay	Karanfil Soyhun	Bones and justice: ethical dimensions of the use of skeletal age diagnosis for forensic purposes	M.A.
Özge Ar	Stephen Voss	On the possibility of nonconceptual experience: the case of music experience	M.A.
Berrak Buhara	İlhan İnan	Semantics of empty names: could Vulcan have existed?	M.A.
Dilek Arlı Çil	İlhan İnan	The concept of certainty and implications of the view that knowledge does not require certainty	M.A.
Botan Dolun	Stephen Voss	On the identity of emotions: concepts, feelings, and intentionality	M.A.
Sefa Geyik	Chryssi Sidiropoulou	How to provide a consistent account of akrasia	M.A.
Nurbay Irmak	Sun Demirli	In defense of ordinary objects: a study in common sense ontolog	M.A.
Bahadır Maşa	Murat Baç	On Davidson’s idea of a conceptual scheme	M.A.
Özge Özdüzen	Johannes Fritsche	The reconstruction of the “Genius Aesthetics” in Adorno’s philosophy	M.A.
Güçsal Pusar	Stephen Voss	Thought, critique, and novelty in Kant’s critical philosophy	M.A.
Yasemin Sarı	Johannes Fritsche	The manifestation of freedom as a 'productive politics'”	M.A.
Zeynep Savaş	Yıldız Silier	Contemporary debates on the ethical basis of Marx's social theory	M.A.

Psychology

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Saffet Zeynep Atay	Feyza Çorapçı	The relationship between maternal emotional awareness and emition socialization practices	M.A.
Aliye Nevra Buldur	Güler Okman Fişek	A qualitative investigation of maternal representations in pregnancy and early motherhood	M.A.
Duygu Coşkun	Güler Fişek	Young adults' reconciliation with their mournimg after parental loss between the ages of 11 and 18	M.A.
Pınar Engin	Esra Mungan	Development of altruism in early childhood	M.A.
Beti Hayim	Güler Okman Fişek	The sense of self, superego and ego-ideal in Turkish sephardic jewish young adults	M.A.
Ceylan Özge Kunduz	Bilge Ataca	An exploration of the predictors of prejudice among university students with and without headcover	M.A.
Duygu Arslan Yalçın	Feyza Çarapçı	Turkish validation of the social competence and behavior evaluation scale (SCBE-30)	M.A.
Nihal Yeniad	Nur Yeniçeri	A study for the Wisconsin card sorting test with 6- to 7- year-old Turkish children	M.A.

Sociology

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Sevi Bayraktar	Meltem Ahıska	Education for "motherhood": a case study on the subjectivities of the women participating in the mother-child education program	M.A.
Başak Can	Nazan Üstündağ	Subjectivities of women garment workers in the Gazi neighborhood	M.A.
Şamil Can	Nükhet Sirman	The ‘Governmental’ betrayal of the sovereign: a legal-anthropological study on neoliberal social inequality and narrative subjectivization among the migrants of Sultanbeyli	M.A.
Evren Gönül	Nazan Üstündağ	Denanding ''justice and freedom'' at the urban margin : an ethnography of Küçükarmutlu in relation to transgressive politics of space	M.A.
Onur Günay	Nükhet Sirman	Political debt and development discourse: translating incommensurable worlds in Diyarbakır	M.A.
Zeynep Güzel	Meltem Ahıska	Memory as representation/memory as experience: a study on Hatırla Sevgili through the narratives of leftists’ children in Turkey	M.A.
Hazal Halavut	Nazan Üstündağ	Tracing the ''document'' gender of ''reality'' through the September 12 coup	M.A.
Seda Karslıoğlu	Nazan Üstündağ	Stories of the past and present: politics of belonging and subjectivity in Gülsuyu neighborhood	M.A.
İnci Katırcı	Ayfer Bartu Candan	Leaving the neighborhood for the urban center: Young İzzetpaşa Çiftliği Residents in the neoliberal urban order	M.A.
Burcu Mutlu	Meltem Ahıska	The local culture of in vitro fertilization in Turkey: women's narratives of "test-tube baby" technologies	M.A.
Öncel Naldemirci	Nükhet Sirman	Care and emotions: gendering the experience of nurses in an oncology department	M.A.
Derya Nizam	Çağlar Keyder	Protection of geographical indication: a study of the " Aegean cotton mark"	M.A.
Hilal Kaplan Öğüt	Nükhet Sirman	On the 'undead' father of Turkey: the impossible mourning of young Atatürkists	M.A.
Pınar Yanardağ	Nazan Üstündağ	The epidemic, the prison house and the global city belonging and identity in Bayrampaşa	M.A.

Translation and Interpreting Studies 

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Can Ceylan	Bülent Aksoy	Internalization of the first eighteen couplets of Rumi’s Mesnevî through commentaries and translation In Turkish literature and culture	M.A.
Müge Işlak	İsmail Kaplan	Questioning contemporary theoretical approaches to translation in terms of translation ethics	M.A.
Nil Öztürk	Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar, Luise von Flotow	Translation and reception of feminist speculative fiction in Turkey: a multiple- foregrounding analysis	Ph.D
Merlin Özkan	Nilgün Fırat	Harry Potter in Turkey : the sociocultural framework of translation in a global context	M.A.
Ebru Şahin	Şebnem Bahadır	Translation of Christian children’s books into Turkish: restrictions, strategies, outcomes	M.A.
Selin Siral	Şebnem Bahadır	The work of translation in the age of digital recreation: a study of translation within the framework of electronic literature	M.A.

Turkish Language and Literature

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Yüce Aydoğan	Erol Köroğlu	Literary disco: Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil's intensive writing	M.A.
Hande Çetin	Zehra Toska	An analysis towards the Ghazals of Yaşar Nezihe	M.A.
Nilgün Firidinoğlu	Nur Gürani Arslan	Representation of the non-Muslim Ottomans in modern Turkish drama (1874-1912)	M.A.
İ. Erkan Irmak	Nüket Esen	In search of the lost legend or ‘the missing’ in landscapes: nationalism, propaganda and ideology in Kuvâyi Milliye and Memleketimden İnsan Manzaraları	M.A.
Nilay Kaya	Halim Kara	The problem of seeing in Feyyaz Kayacan's Short Fiction	M.A.
Evşen Mercan	Zeynep Uysal	Reading Tezer Özlü’s Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri and Yaşamın Ucuna Yolculuk novels as self narrated female bildungsroman	M.A.
Arzu Sarı	Fatma Büyükkarcı-Yılmaz	The reading of Muallime with the characteristics of sentimental novel	M.A.
Derya Şenol	Halim Kara	Alienation of the individual in Dar Zamanlar by Adalet Ağaoğlu	M.A.
Semiha Şentürk	Zeynep Uysal	Subjectivity, language and narration in Leylâ Erbil’s short stories	M.A.
Fırat Uğırlu	Nur Gürani Arslan	İhsan Oktay Anar'ın Amat romanında mitlerin işlevi	M.A.

The Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Economics

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Orhan Aygün	Ayşe Mumcu	Secondary school placement problem in Turkey	M.A.
Denada Boriçi	Levent Yıldıran	Competition and regulation in the Turkish credit card market	M.A.
Umut Mert Dur	Ayşe Mumcu	Unraveling in two sided matching markets	M.A.
Caner Gerek	Ahmet Faruk Aysan	Essays on consumer credits and bank choice	M.A.
Gültekin Göllü	Güzin Gülsün Akın	Essays on a two-sided market: credit card market in Turkey	M.A.
Gizem Korkmaz	E. Ünal Zenginobuz	Explorations on the accountability of independent regulatory agencies	M.A.
Seçil Öztürk	Ozan Hatipoğlu	Essays on determinants of efficiency for commercial banks in Turkey	M.A.
Serhan Sadıkoğlu	Ozan Hatipoğlu	Stay or go: the effects of migration and return decisions on human capital formation	M.A.
Gül Bahar Şenol	Oya Pınar Ardıç	The kindergarten rule of sustainable growth: a Schumpeterian Approach	M.A.
Orhan Torul	Emre Alper	Three essays on oil prices and economic activity in Turkey	M.A.

Management

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Elif Altuğ	Vedat Akgiray	A study on Turkish mutual funds: value creation, performance persistance and survivorship bias of actively managed Turkish equity mutual funds and the supplementary value of sell-side research to mutual fund management, 2000-2007	Ph.D
Saadet Çetinkaya	Güven Alpay	Bilateral governance in outsourced services: interorganizational dynamics and consequences	Ph.D
Özen Aşık Dizdar	Hayat Kabasakal	Psychological contracts and organizational correlates: the impact of work orientations	Ph.D
Havva Pınar İmer	Hayat Kabasakal	Contextual and dispositional antecedents of organizational citizenship behavior: does occupation make a difference?	Ph.D
Fatih Kiraz	Vedat Akgiray	In search of chaos: the case of Istanbul Stock Exchange	Ph.D
Şebnem Kuzulugil	Hayat Kabasakal	Does one size fit all? Value-based subcultures and leadership preferences in Turkey	Ph.D
Vedat Mizrahi	Mine Uğurlu	Ownership Structure, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance: Evidence from Turkey	Ph.D
Deniz Parlak	Mine Uğurlu	Corporate integration, competitiveness and financial performance: suppliers’ perspective	Ph.D
Mehmet Selim Uçer	Mine Uğurlu	Determinants and characteristics of merger and acquisitions, and target firm performance: evidence from Turkey	Ph.D

Political Science and International Relations

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Cemal Taylan Acar	Ayşen Candaş Bilgen	The Phenomenon of subcontracted work in Turkish health care sector: a state ethnography	M.A.
Zeynep Selen Artan	Kemal Kirişçi, Dilek Çınar	From village Turks to Euro Turks: Turkish State’s perceptions of Turkish migrants in Europe	M.A.
Bengü Aydın	Ayşen Candaş Bilgen	Alevi politics of recognition: transformation of Alevism and two kinds of recognition politics	M.A.
Ragıp Evren Aydoğan	Mine Eder	Deeper into charity: the social assistance mechanisms in Turkey and the case of the Greater Municipality of Ankara	M.A.
Esra Bakkalbaşıoğlu	Koray Çalışkan	The wall and the nonviolent anti-wall movements: understanding the change in the politics of Israel-Palestine	M.A.
Gül Çatır	Mine Eder	Long waited brothers or unwelcome guests: the logic of reception mechanisms of a receiving state: Turkey and its asylum seekers in 1989 and 1991	M.A.
Aslı Erdem	Yeşim Arat	The politics of sheltering women: the case of SHÇEK	M.A.
Duygu Gül	Koray Çalışkan	“Women of power”: the policewomen in a state of men	M.A.
Yasin Kaya	Mine Eder	Class underground, class aboveground: Zonguldak mineworkers and their unions	M.A.
Levent Önen	Koray Çalışkan	The Republican People’s Party: ideology and organization between 1992 and 2007	M.A.
Aslı Orhon	Mine Eder	Taking the right, selling it in the market: commodification and commercialization of health care in Turkey since the 1980s	M.A.
Salim Aykut Öztürk	Koray Çalışkan	The Palestinian politics of democratization in Israel and the West Bank: a comparative study of colonial and post-colonial contexts	M.A.
Pınar Sayan	Hakan Yılmaz	New nationalisms in Turkey in the field of popular art: the case of Kurtlar Vadisi	M.A.
Alper Yağcı	Mine Eder	Packaging neoliberalism: neopopulism and the case of the Justice and Development Party	M.A.

The Faculty of Education

Educational Sciences

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Sezen Bayhan	Fatma Gök	Recontextualisation of higher education in Turkey : a discourse analysis of higher education strategy report for Turkey	M.A.
Canan Aratemur Çimen	Özlem Ünlühisarcıklı	Professional development in corporate training through learning experiences in the workplace	M.A.
Hüseyin Esen	Fatma Gök	An analysis of public primary school teachers’ dealing with difference in the absence of a multicultural education policy in Turkey	M.A.

Foreign Language Education

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Mehmet Akıncı	Senem Yıldız	Effectiveness of corpus consultancy in teaching verb+noun collocations to first-year ELT students	M.A.
Ebru Bağ	Yasemin Bayyurt, Leyla Mesude Martı	Gender and classroom interaction : an analysis of how a female and a male teacher in two EFL classroo	M.A.
Seda Danacı	Yasemin Bayyurt	High school ninth Grade students' awareness and preferences for the cultural content of the EFL textbooks: a case in Turkey	M.A.
Zennure Elgün	Yasemin Bayyurt, Sumru Akcan	An exploratory study on isolated versus integrated form-focused instruction at the primary level in an EFL context	M.A.
Kadir Kozan	Gülcan Erçetin	Effects of multimedia modality and L2 working memory capacity on L2 comprehension	M.A.
Eray Sevingil	Yasemin Bayyurt	Computer-mediated communication acts in non-native English speakers' electronic mail exchanges	M.A.

The School of Applied Disciplines

International Trade 

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Hakan Mehmet Maltepe	Elif Alakavuk, Ayfer Hortaçsu	Factors affecting mobile phone repurchase behavior of American and Turkish university students	M.A.
M. Şükrü Nenem	Emine Nur Özkan Günay	Energy vulnerability and international trade assessing Turkey’s energy vulnerability with a comparative outlook of the EU	M.A.
Esin Özdemir	Arzu Tektaş	Benchmarking the supply chain performance: the food and beverage industry	M.A.
Ahmet Seren Sungur	Elif Alakavuk	The role of intermodal transportation and logistics distribution centers in international trade: the case of Turkish SMEs	M.A.
İdil Ziyaoğlu	Nisan Selekler Gökşen	Board composition in the affiliates of family business groups in Turkey: a longitudinal analysis	M.A.

Management Information Systems

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Yıldız Akkaya	Bertan Badur, Osman N. Darcan	A study on sequential internet auctions using agent-based modeling approach	M.A.
Serkan Albayrak	Hande Kımıloğlu	Consumer attitudes toward and acceptance of personalization attempts in the online environment	M.A.
Nedim Cem Aytekin	Birgül Kutlu	The impact of speech recognition systems on business effectiveness	M.A.
İhsan Birekul	Özgür Döğerlioğlu	Impacts of service oriented architecture (SOA) on enterprise systems and organizational structures	M.A.
Tamer Çağatay	Bertan Badur	Test of Elliot Wave theory by time series segmentation algorithms	M.A.
İsmail Cingil	Meltem Özturan	Development of a decision support system for evaluation of business process management systems	M.A.
Nur Esra Kardeş	Hande Kımıloğlu	Marketing-wise benefits of technological improvements on consumer well-being	M.A.
Yağız Civan Özseyhan	Bertan Badur, Osman Darcan	An association rule-based recommendation engine for online dating sites	M.A.
Ümit Topaçan	A. Nuri Basoglu	Exploring the adoption of technology assisted services in the health care industry	M.A.
Deniz Utku	V. Aslıhan Nasır	Readers' expectations, perceptions, preferences and loyalty towards online newspapers	M.A.

Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs

Cognitive Science

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Tuna Çakar	Burak Güçlü, Karanfil Soyhun	Detecting emotions during the application of skin conductance and heart rate measurement techniques	M.A.
Ayşegül Çetinkaya	Esra Mungan, Taner Bilgiç	ACT-R based memory models of iterated prisoner’s dilemma	M.A.
Ediz Dikmelik	Berna Kılınç, Falih Köksal	The charge of c in animal behavior: a philosophical analysis	M.A.
Aslı Selim	Berna Kılınç, Taner Bilgiç	Gigerenzer’s eclectic normativism	M.A.
Ahmet Subaşı	İlhan İnan, Sumru Özsoy	Cognitive dynamics of scientific curiosity	M.A.