Theses in Humanities and Social Sciences - 2014

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences

History

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Didar Ayşe Akbulut	Derin Terzioğlu	The classification of the sciences in Nevʽī Efendi’s Netāyicüʽl Fünun- An Attempt at Contextualization	M.A.
Zarifa Alikperova	Oya Pancaroğlu	The mausoleum of Qilich Arslan II in Konya	M.A.
Burcu Belli	Edhem Eldem	Insanity in the reign of Abdiilhamid II (1876-1909)	M.A.
Ohannes Kılıçdağı	Evangelos Kechriotis	Socio-political reflections and expectations of the Ottoman Armenians after the 1908 revolution: between hope and despair	Ph.D
Ömer Koçyiğit	Yavuz Selim Karakışla	From sufi movement to statehood: the Mahdi uprising in the Ottoman Sudan, 1881-1885	M.A.
Can Özden	Arzu Öztürkmen	Being an Armenian in Anatolia: narratives of loss and recuperation	M.A.
Zekiye Seda Payır	Evangelos Kechriotis	Immorality, misbehavior and transgression: the ‘Unorthodox’ Greeks of Pera and Galata in the late Ottoman Empire	M.A.
Ari Şekeryan	Selim Deringil	The aftermath of the deportation: the Armenian population after the great war and the Jamanak daily	M.A.
Bekir Sadık Topaloğlu	Meltem Toksöz	Tanzimat era Ottoman administration in mount Lebanon (1840-1868)	M.A.
Yunus Uğur	Edhem Eldem	The historical interaction of the city with Its mahalles: Ottoman Edirne in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries	Ph.D
Ramiz Üzümçeker	Meltem Toksöz	Rural economy and vakıf finances in sixteenth-century Anatolia: a study on Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Vakfı in Bursa	M.A.
Cengiz Yolcu	Evangelos Kechriotis	Depiction of the enemy: Ottoman propaganda books in the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913	M.A.
Nimet Elif Uluğ	Yavuz Selim Karakışla	Elemterefiş: superstitious beliefs and occult in the Ottoman Empire ( 1839 - 1923 )	Ph.D

Linguistics

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Faruk Akkuş	Balkız Öztürk	The functional categories and phrase structure of Sason Arabic	M.A.
Esra Yıldız	Aslı Göksel	Reduplication as a compounding process: the case of [VV] converbs in Turkish	M.A.

Philosophy

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Emre Altan	Berna Kılınç	A critical examination of the philosophical defense of free logics	M.A.
Hakkı Kaan Arıkan	Lucas Thorpe	A moderate defense of cognitive phenomenology	M.A.
Olcay Çelik	Yıldız Silier	Socio-political conditions of desire’s freedom in Spinoza and Hegel	M.A.
Çağlar Çömez	Murat Baç	A Heideggerian conception of knowledge	M.A.
Kerem Geçmen	İlhan İnan	Interest-relative determination of reference for the so-called natural kind terms	M.A.
Ozan Güreli	Yıldız Silier	A strong value-neutral theory of autonomy	M.A.
Ahmet Serkan Kılıkçıer	Chryssi Sidiropoulou	The unconcealedness of the truth: a study in Heideggerian understanding of truth	M.A.
Hüseyin Sungur Kuyumcuoğlu	Johannes Fritsche	Hegel's concept of concept and Its relationship to Kant's negative magnitudes and Marx's concept of capital in his capital	M.A.
Cansen Mavituna	Johannes Fritsche	Heidegger on Kant: temporality and imagination	M.A.
Cem Şişkolar	İlhan İnan	Common nouns and rigidity	Ph.D
Seniye Tilev	Lucas Thorpe	A critique of Kantian morality from virtue ethics perspective	M.A.
Tolgahan Toy	İrem Kurtsal Steen	From semantic relativism to reality relativism	M.A.

Psychology

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Serap Altekin	Nur Yeniçeri	Vicarious traumatization: an investigation of the effects of trauma work on mental health professionals in Turkey	Ph.D
Müge Özbek Akçay	Ali İ. Tekcan	Investigating autobiographical memory in relation to attachment anxiety and avoidance: self-defining memories across relational contexts	M.A.
Melih Barsbey	S. Adil Sarıbay	Perceptual simulations beyond the sentence: the effect of narrative shifts on perceptual simulations	M.A.
Özlem Çağın	Serra Müderrisoğlu	Exploring shame as a relationally-conscious emotion	Ph.D
Alev Çavdar	Serra Müderrisoğlu	Contemporary conceptualizations of defense: a relational perspective	Ph.D
Turgut Coşkun	Ayşecan Boduroğlu	Temporal processing of visual information and its Iinfluence on visual working memory representation	M.A.
Pınar Ersoy	Ali İ. Tekcan	The role of direct and generative retrieval in access to involuntary and voluntary autobiographical memories	M.A.
Ege Kurtuluş	Falih Köksal	Factors that influence the relationship between western media exposure and body satisfaction among Turkish University students	M.A.
Yudit Namer	Falih Köksal	Affect with other: self- and affect-discrepancy in personal and impersonal contexts	Ph.D
Gülin Seven	Bilge Ataca	Predictors of prejudice against different types of head-covering practices	M.A.
Hanife Uğur	Falih Köksal	The mediating role of affect regulation in the relationship between attachment styles and defense mechanisms	M.A.
Aylin Deniz Ülkümen	Serra Müderrisoğlu	A changing sense of self in the context of coercive control	M.A.

Sociology

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Selim Kırılmaz	Nükhet Sirman	Patrimonial governing and community formation: power relations within and without the Süryani Orthodox community in İstanbul	M.A.
Didem Derya Özdemir	Ceren Özselçuk	The show in the restaurant: performing affective labor through culinary fantasies in Istanbul	M.A.
Mehmet Fatih Tatari	Ceren Özselçuk	The organization of white-collars in Istanbul: intimacy, labor and politics	M.A.

Translation and Interpreting Studies 

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Seyhan Bozkurt	Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar	The canonization and popularization of realism in Turkish literary discourse through translation: a conceptual–historical approach	Ph.D

Turkish Language and Literature

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Elife Ateş	Zeynep Sabuncu	Müstakim Mustafa Niyâzî’s Sülükü’l-Kavím ve'ş-Şıratu’l-Müstakím: transcription and textual analysis	M.A.
Egem Atik	Halim Kara	Subject and power in Sevgi Soysal’s novels	M.A.
Aydın Satar Nesrin	Nur Gürani Arslan	The voice of diary self: self construction in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s diary and its effect on “Canonic Tanpınar"	M.A.
Esra Demirkoparan	Fatma Büyükkarcı Yılmaz	Dîvân by Fetvâemînizâde Gâlib Zühdî: structural and contextual analysis	M.A.
Deniz Aktan Küçük	Zeynep Uysal	Human voice echoing in the silence of god: worldliness and death in Tevfik Fikret’s poetry	Ph.D
Şehnaz Şişmanoğlu Şimşek	Erol Köroğlu	Stuck between two worlds: Karamanlidika literary production, Evangelinos Misailidis and Temaşa-i  Dünya ve Cefakâr u Cefakeş as a case of rewriting	Ph.D
Enis Tonbul	Nezihe Seyhan	Beşiktaşlı Yahya Efendi’s diwan: text and textual analysis	M.A.
Şerife Seda Yücekurt Ünlü	Zeynep Uysal	"'Weird' women's engagement with writing: heroines as writers in Leyla Erbil's novels"	M.A.

Western Languages and Literatures

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Miray Çakıroğlu (Critical and Cultural Studies)	Işıl Baş, Güneş Ekin Aksan	Reconstructing the city and the citizen through the İstanbul courses	M.A.
Arif Samet Çamoğlu (English Literature)	Kim Fortuny	The other histories of romanticism in the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Abdiilhak Hamid Tarhan	M.A.
Kürşat K. Pekgöz (English Literature)	Cevza Sevgen, Naz Bulamur	Keats’ “Lamia:” the serpentine dialectic	M.A.
Nejat Cihan Yurdaün (English Literature)	Cevza Sevgen, Aslı Tekinay	Three ways of looking at negative capability: William Carlos Williams, John Berryman, Mark Strand	Ph.D

The Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Economics

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Salim Ergene	Ceyhun Elgin	Optimal monetary policy under the presence of informality	M.A.
Serli Kiremitçiyan	Tolga Umut Kuzubaş	A comparison of stochastic models of natural gas consumption: an application for Turkey	M.A.
Ezgi Kurt	Kamil Kıvanç Karaman	Political instability and long run economic growth across the old world	M.A.
Onur Özvarol	Ozan Hatipoğlu	Modeling new monetary policy of the Central Bank of Republic of Turkey	M.A.
Muhammed Burak Sezgin	Ceyhun Elgin	Informality in Turkey: evidence from a firm-level survey	M.A.

Management

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Gaye Karaçay Aydın	Hayat Kabasakal	Leader-member exchange based relative deprivation and employee outcomes	Ph.D
Zeynep Özçelik	Mine Uğurlu	The impact of capital inflows on corporate financial flexibility: a review of market segmentation effects in developed emerging markets	Ph.D
Zeynep Mina Seraj Akşit	Ayşegül Toker, Robert V. Kozinets	Brand wars through brand soldiers: inter-brand community conflict	Ph.D
Renin Varnalı	Hayat Kabasakal	Entrepreneurial success: the role of social networks and human capital	Ph.D
Emir İzmiroğlu		Application of Quantitative Demand Forecasting methods to a Turkish SME	M.A
Barış Pektezol		A case of strategic allignement of IT and SCM Functionalities	M.A
Ali Sekban		Implications of IFRS for Financial Reporting and Performance Indications	M.A

Political Science and International Relations

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Çiğdem Birced	Zeynep Kadirbeyoğlu	The role of education on women's empowerment: the case of Village Institutes in Turkey, 1940-1946	M.A.
Mehtap Ergünöz	Mine Eder	Transnational remittances and irregularity: remitting practices of Post-Soviet labor migrants in Istanbul	M.A.
Abdurrahman Gümüş	Ayşen Candaş	The case of Egypt: an analysis of the process from “January 25 Revolution” to July 2013 military intervention	M.A.
Sonja Mardesic	Zeynep Kadirbeyoğlu	Bringing agency back In: the case of Sub-Saharan African migrants in Istanbul	M.A.
Sophie Menasse	Zeynep Ç. Gambetti	On Hannah Arendt’s conception of judgment with regard to political action: an attempt at reconciling the perspectives of actor and spectator	M.A.
Ahmet Özcan	Zeynep Ç. Gambetti	The missing link in the Chain of oppression and resistance: last era of Kurdish banditry in modern Turkey, 1950-1980	Ph.D
Pınar Sözer	Koray Çalışkan	A study of power: the making of the Turkish electricity market	M.A.
Selbin Yılmaz	Zeynep Ç. Gambetti	Deconstruction of the modern subject by Arendt and Levinas: the other and politics	M.A.
Fatmanil Döner	Koray Çalışkan	Disappearing onion producers in Karacabey: a micro analysis of farmers and land after structural reform	Ph.D

The Faculty of Education

Educational Sciences

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Meral Apak Kaya	Fatma Gök	Breastfeeding the educational system: analyzing women’s unpaid labor and voluntary mother participation in schools within the context of neoliberal economic policies	Ph.D
Mehmet Çağatay Babacan	Fatma Nevra Seggie	Contemporary educational values of teachers’ academy foundation and their transmission to teaching practices in Turkey	M.A.
Gökçe Güvercin	Özlem Ünlühisarcıklı, Arnd-Michael Nohl	Informal workplace practices and learning experiences of permanent and hourly-paid teachers: a comparative study	Ph.D
Hasan Karabakkal	Fatoş Erkman	The relationship between facebook utilization, perceived parental acceptance-rejection and identity orientation in adolescence	M.A.
Şengül Öztürk	Zeynep Kızıltepe	An analysis of educational programs of public workers’ unions: the case of Kamu Emekçileri Sendikaları Konfederasyonu (The Confederation of Public Workers' Unions)	M.A.
Gökçe Piroğlu Akçakmak	Z. Hande Sart	Life experiences of mothers of children with intellectual disability	M.A.
Sebahat Şahin	Fatma Gök	How does a hidden curriculum operate: a case study of routine practices and rules in a fourth-grade classroom	M.A.

Foreign Language Education

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Fidel Çakmak	Gülcan Erçetin	Exploring the role of multimedia glosses and strategy use in second language listening comprehension and incidental vocabulary learning in a mobile environment	Ph.D
Pınar Ersin	Yasemin Bayyurt, Gayle Nelson	A case study of a Turkish English learner in an EFL setting: investment, imagined community, and identity	Ph.D
Sema Meşincigiller	Sumru Akcan	The attitudes of secondary school students towards native and non-native english speaking teachers in an EFL context	M.A.
Çağla Nikbay	Sumru Akcan	An exploratory study of the progressive ‘–ing’ in a Turkish academic context from an ELF perspective	M.A.

Primary Education

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Şebnem Atabaş	Diler Öner	An examination of fifth and sixth grade students’ proportional reasoning	M.A.
Ayşe Büşra Çeviren	Devrim Güven	A case study in an early childhood setting: science teaching practices and teacher perspectives	M.A.
Evrim Erdik	Engin Ader	A comparative analysis of noticing of mathematics teachers with varying teaching experience	M.A.
Nazmi Erdoğan	Engin Ader	Pre-service mathematics teachers TPACK development in a computer-assisted mathematics instruction course	M.A.
Mehmet Eren	Serkan Özel	A collective case study to understand the whys and wherefores of not using technology in mathematics education	M.A.
Muhammet Emin Mısır	Ebru Zeynep Muğaloğlu, Burçkin Dal	An analysis of the earth science chapter in the official Turkish fifth grade science textbook revised in 2013	M.A.
Vuslat Şeker	Engin Ader	A study for profiling mathematics teachers regarding factors affecting promotion of students metacognition	M.A.
Yağmur Seven	Nine Gol-Guven	A woman coordinator in an early childhood education center: a case study on defining leadership based on feminine perspective	M.A.
Ali Sökmen	Devrim Güven	Comparing the effect of dynamic and static visualizations on eighth grade students understanding of plate tectonics and earthquake concepts	M.A.

The School of Applied Disciplines

International Trade 

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Erdem Doğukan Yılmaz	Sema Sakarya, Gözde Erhan Ünal	Sovereign credit default swap market response to credit rating announcements: an event study on emerging markets	M.A.
Gözde Nur Kazazoğlu	Emine Nur Günay	Perfonnance of national innovation systems during the global crisis: a cross-country analysis	M.A

Management Information Systems

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Osman Akşit	Birgül Kutlu Bayraktar	Investigating the instructors' attitudes towards the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in higher education	M.A.
Ahmet Cihat Baktır	Bilgin Metin	The technical challenges of cloud computing and their effects on usage	M.A.
Abdullah Sait Çetin	Ceylan Onay	Factors affecting customer satisfaction and loyalty in mobile banking in Turkey	M.A.
Abide Coşkun Setirek	Zuhal Tanrıkulu	Significant and relevant factors that can affect the sustainability of mobile learning	M.A.
Nuri Sezay Demirbacak	Osman Darcan	Empirical and simulation based analysis of detailing activities of a pharmaceutical company in Turkey	M.A.
Davut Dişci	Birgül Kutlu Bayraktar	Factors affecting expectations and intentions of university students mobile phone use in educational contexts	M.A.
Latif Cem Ösken	Ceylan Onay	Estimating defaults in organized security lending markets: an empirical study on a default indicator	M.A.
Erşan Taşan	Bertan Badur	Agent-based modelling and simulation of collaborative content creation: the curious case of Wikipedia	M.A.
Tuğba Yıldırım	Bilgin Metin	Evaluating and designing an internal control system for information systems processes using control self-assessment, 2014	M.A.
Mehmet Nuri Can	Aslıhan Nasır	Factors affecting the usage of social CRM applications	M.A