Theses in Humanities and Social Sciences - 2016

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences

History

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Esra Ansel	Paolo Girardelli	Continuity and Change on the Bosphorus Shore: Arnavutköy Before and After the Greek Revulation of 1821	M.A
Sinan As	Oya Pancaroğlu	Gender, Identity and Patronage: The Role of Woman in the Urban Transformation of Medieval Anatolia (1200-1350)	M.A
Yeliz Çavuş	Arzu Öztürkmen	State Power as Performance: Royal Wedding Festivities and the Ottoman Spectacular State During the Period of Mahmud II.	M.A
İkbal Zeynep Dursunoğlu	Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu	The Changing Iconography of Nizami Manuscripts in the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Book Cultures	M.A
İrem Gündüz Polat	Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu	Küçük Ayasofya and the Foundation of Babüssaade Ağası Hüseyin Ağa	M.A
August Siena Cohn Thomas	Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu	“The Sand Silts Up Your Colour-Box”: The Art of Nineteenth-Century Women Travelers and the Imaging of the Ottoman Empire	M.A
Ahmet Yaşar	Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu	The Han in Eighteenth-and Early Nineteenth-Century İstanbul: A Spatial, Topographical and Social Analysis	Ph.D
Mustafa Yıldız	Nevra Necipoğlu	The discourse of rebellion in Byzantium in the eleventh and twelfth centuries	M.A
Merve Kaplan	Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu	Women’s participation in dervish lodges: Koca Mustafa Pasha, Merkez Efendi and the Şah Sultan complexes	M.A
Mustafa İnce	Yavuz Selim Karakışla	The Ottoman government and the Egyptian question: judicial reform and politics (1800-1914)	Ph.D
Yusuf Ünal	Derin Terzioğlu	More than mere polemic: The adventure of the Risālah-i Ḥusniyah in the Safavid, Ottoman and Indian lands	M.A
Remzi Hakan   Kırkoğlu	Derin Terzioğlu	İlm-i nücûm and its role in the Ottoman court during the eighteenth century	M.A

Linguistics

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Ömer Eren	Balkız Öztürk Başaran	Spatial Prefixes of Pazar Laz: A Nano-Syntactic Approach	M.A
Serpil Karabüklü	Meltem Kelepir	Time and Aspect in Turkish Sign Language (TID): Manual and Nonmanual Realizations of ‘finish’	M.A

Philosophy

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Cansu Akarsu	Chryssi Sidiropoulou	Aristotle's notion of physis and its implications for his thics	M.A
Nesibe Sena Arslan	İrem Kurtsal	The Problem of Infinity: A Pendulous Swing Between Empiricism and Metaphysisc	M.A
Enver Deniz Aşkın	Karanfil Soyhun, Ali Karatay	The Representation of Empty Names in Modal Logic	M.A
Ekrem Çetinkaya	Chryssi Sidiropoulou	Aristotle’s De Anime II.5 in the Literalism-Spiritualim Debate	M.A
Pınar Güngör	Kenneth R. Westphal	An Analysis of Educational Theme in Hegel’s Philosophical Outlines of Justice	M.A
Fatma Kaya	Lucas Torphe	The Role of Artistic Intentions in Interpretation of Artworks	M.A
Oğuz Korkmaz	Berna Kılınç	Redefining Expectations in Belief Revision Theories	M.A
Nihat Muğurtay	Kenneth R. Westphal	A Quest for Social Justice: Critique of Hayek’s Social Philosophy	M.A
Eyyüphan Özdemir	Stephen Voss	Mary’s Epistemic Gain in the Knowledge Argument	M.A
Berk Polat	Berna Kılınç, Ali Karatay	Logicism and Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems	M.A
Elif Karakaya	Kenneth Westphal	Freedom and reconciliation in Hegel‟s philosophy of right	M.A

Psychology

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Figen Eroğlu Ada	Feyza Çorapçı	The Role of Home and Childcare Chaos in Children’s Development	M.A
Pınar Aldan	Gaye Soley	The Role of Intergroup Biases in Children’s Acqusition of Information about Other’s Personality Characteristics	M.A
Dilay Zeynep Karadöller Astarlıoğlu	Ayşecan Boduroğlu	The Effect of Timing and Stimulus Properties on Metacognitive Judgments	M.A
Bilge Göz		Characteristics and Functions of Self-Defining Memory in Restrained Eaters	M.A
Ayşe Ezgi Mamus	Ayşecan Boduroğlu	The Role of Context in Boundary Extension	M.A
Merve Mutafoğlu	S. Adil Sarıbay	An Investigation of Autobiographical Memories through the Lens of an Honor Culture	M.A
Şule Pala Sağlam	Feyza Çorapcı	School-Aged Children’s Experience and Expression of Shame and Guilt: Role of Age, Gender, Context, Parenting and Socioeconomic Status	M.A
İrem Yıldırım	Ayşecan Boduroğlu	Outlier and Ensemble Representations of Visual Displays	M.A
Aslı Kuşçu	Özlem Hesapçı	Antecedents and consequences of brand love: The interplay between the self, engagement and attachment consequences	Ph.D

Sociology

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Selim Gökçe Atıcı	Nükhet Sirman	Post-Fordist Affects, Times, Images: An Ethnography of Circulation in a Digital Advertising Agency in İstanbul	M.A
Cansu Bakar	Ceren Özselçuk	The Spatial Imaginary and Politics of Democratic Autonomy: A Neighborhood Assembly Experience in Beyoğlu	M.A
Hazal Ilgaz Dölek	Eva-Marie Dubuisson	Unmaking and Remaking Everyday Life in Diyarbakır: Free Schools as a Decolonizing Practice	M.A
Zeynep Gül	Nazan Üstündağ	Shifting Geographies of Subversive Politics in Istanbul	M.A
İrem Yıldırım	Tuna Kuyucu	The Dilemma of Amnesty Politics in the AKP Era: Balancing the Questions of Legitimacy and Instrumentality	M.A
Deniz Zerin	Zafer Yenal	Governing Turkey’s Internet: A study of Cyber Security as a Strategy of Power	M.A
Ferda Nur Demirci	Ceren Özselçuk	Financialization and morality : Indebtedness under a new regime of ''NEED'' in Turkey	M.A
Ahenk Anbar	Ayfer Bartu Candan	Educational strategies of the conservative bourgeoisie: Cultural capital, family and schooling	M.A
Deniz Pınar Konuk	Meltem Ahıska	‘Developing’ the governance of childhood: The (In)compatibility of protection and punishment in juvenile courts	M.A
Bermal Küçük	Zafer Yenal	Labor and value creation processes in the sector of natural food production in Turkey	M.A

Translation and Interpreting Studies

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Ceyda Elgül	Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar, Saliha Paker	Lives as Translation: Biographers of Translators in Search of a Total Borges	Ph.D
Ceyda Özmen	Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar, Saliha Paker	The Periodical as a Site of Translational Inquiry into Hollywood-driven Vernacular Modernism: The Turkish Film Magazine Yıldız (1938-1954)	Ph.D

Turkish Language and Literature

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Resul Altıntaş	Zeynep Sabuncu	Feyzi-i Kefevi’s Ravzatü’l İbad Textual Analysis and Transcribed Text	M.A
Serap Arslan	Zeynep Sabuncu	A Transcription and Textual Analysis of Münazara-i Tuti vü Zağ Tercemesi	M.A
Meryem Bursalı	Zeynep Sabuncu	Medhiye-I Ali Paşa ve Gencine-I Pür-Temaşa: Çeviri Yazılı Metin ve İnceleme	M.A
Ahmet Duran Arslan	Zeynep Uysal	Murathan Mungan’ın Öykülerinde Hegemonik Erkeklik: İfşa ve Darbe	M.A
Hümeyra Dinler	Halim Kara	II. Meşrutiyetten Türk Ulusal Hareketine Milli Edebiyatın Taşrası: Kastamonu Vilayeti Örneği	M.A
Gökhan Güler	Tülay Gençtürk Demircioğlu	Millet Kütüphanesi’nde AEMNZ587 Kayıt numaralı Mecmu’a-I Eş’ar ve Gazeliyyat İsimli Şiir Mecmuasının İncelenmesi	M.A
Duygu Cankılıç İlhan	Zeynep Uysal	Hilmi Ziya Ülken’in Düşünce Dünyasında Bir Tezli roman Olarak İnsan Müdicezri	M.A
Bedia Küçükçalık	Tülay Gençtürk Dermicioğlu	A Textual Analysis of Hasan Kenzi’s Divan and  Vezin-Usul Relationship of His Musicalized Poems	M.A
Yağmur Başak Selimoğlu	Zeynep Uysal	An Analysis of Mai ve Siyah as Serial Illustrated Novel in the Serveti Fünun Journal	M.A
Münire Sevgi Şen	Zeynep Uysal	A Virus Could Become  a Virus’: The Body and The World in Buzul Çağının Virüsü	M.A
Bilge Ulusman	Olcay Akyıldız	Bay Muannit Sahtegi’nin Notları’nda Türün İşlevleri: Eril Tahakküm ve Söylemin Aracı Olarak Günlük Türü	M.A

Western Languages and Literatures

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Maral Aktokmakyan Erdoğan (English Language and Literature)	Özlem Öğüt	If This is Life: Rethinking the Modern Subject through the Aporia of Biopolitics	Ph.D
Ezgi İnce (English Literature)	Kim Fortuny	Triumphant Evocations: The Visualization and Textualization of Post-Bop Jazz in the 1950s	M.A
Dilara Sarı	Aslı Tekinay	The long job: Pound, Dante and the epic ambition	M.A

The Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Economics

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Fatih Serkant Adıgüzel	Deniz Selman	Electoral Rules and Strategic Voting in Turkey	M.A
Pınar Ertör Akyazı	Begüm Özkaynak, Fikret Adaman	Cooperation and Policy Interventions: Field Experiments With Small-Scale Fishing Communities in Turkey	Ph.D
Önsel Gürel Bayralı	Fikret Adaman	The Relatioship between State and Capital: The Reconstruction of Soccer Stadiums as an Urban Transformation Project	M.A
Merve Bilsel	Mehmet Yiğit Gürdal	Applications of Network Segregation Measures	M.A
Özge Demirci	Ceyhun Elgin	International Trade and Informality	M.A
Damla Erhan	Tolga Umut Kuzubaş	The Cost of Switching: Evidence from the Turkish Pension Fund System	M.A
Mustafa Kaba	Murat Koyuncu	Informality and Inequality Dynamics in a Two-Sector Ramsey-Type Growth Model	M.A
Hasan Kadir Tosun	Ceyhun Elgin	Two Essays on Macroeconomics	M.A
Emine Kübra Usta	Murat G. Kırdar	The Effects of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Woman’s Status in the Family	M.A
Alper Ünsal	Murat Koyuncu	Financing Public Expenditures through Progressive Taxation: Effect on Growth, Welfare and Inequality	M.A
Yunus Topbaş	Ünal Zenginobuz	Horizontal coordination and transparency of information	M.A

Management

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Ahmet Aydemir	Burcu Rodopman	Susceptibility to Emotional Contagion in Health Organizations: Impact on Organizational Commitment and Intention to Stay	Ph.D
Bilge Baykal	Özlem Hesapçı	The Impact of Social Capital on Consumers’ Engagement in EWOM and Their Puchase Intentions	Ph.D
Merve Gizem Cevheroğlu	Neslihan Yılmaz	The Neglected Stock Effect in Borsa İstanbul	M.A
Hale Çaloğlu	Hüseyin Sami Karaca	Learning Orientation and Market Information Processing: Effects on Marketing and Organizational Outcomes	Ph.D
Irmak Erdoğan	Hayat Kabasakal	The Transgenerational Sustainability of Family Firms	Ph.D
Yasin Galip Gençer	Ulaş Akküçük	Determinants of Quality and Productivity in Automobile Services: MADM Approaches and Empirical Analysis	Ph.D
Necmettin Alican Mecit	Hüseyin Sami Karaca	Psychological Distance to the (Un) Familiar	M.A
Efe Ünsal	Hüseyin Sami Karaca	Analysis of the Relationship between Football Clubs and Their Consumer from a Gender Perspective	M.A

Political Science and International Relations

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Meryem Altınöz	Zeynep Kadirbeyoğlu	How Popular is Privatization? Public Attitudes Towards Privatization in Turkey	M.A
Seza Eraydın	Mine Eder	The Regeneration of Poverty and Exclusion After the Van Earthquake	M.A
Ezgi Murat	Murat Akan	Neighborhood Projects of Education: The Case of Halkevi Summer School in Okmeydanı	M.A
Serkan Sönmezgil	Zühre Aksoy	Clear-Air-Turbulence: Incessant Regulation of Deregulation in International Civil Aviation	M.A
Mesadet Maria Sözmen	Volkan Çıdam	Core Theoretical Debates in the Post-1980 Feminist Movemenet in Turkey: The Subject of Feminism and the (Im)possibilities of Feminist Politics	M.A
Edgar Şar	Ayşen Candaş	The Relationship between Secularism and Democracy in Turkey: Desecularization of the State in the 2000s	M.A
Ercan Akkaya	Selcan Kaynak	Rethinking independent cinema: Public funding, market oligopoly and the film industry in Turkey	M.A
Murat Can	Gül Sosay	The unbearable lightness of cyber: Cyberspace and state sovereignty	M.A

The Faculty of Education

Computer Education and Educational Technology

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Burç Çeken (Educational Technology)	Yavuz Akpınar	The Effects of Tutorial Feedback Type on Pre-service Teachers’ Choice of Feedback Type in Their Development of Learning Objects	M.A
Ekrem Kutbay (Educational Technology)	Yavuz Akpınar	An Investigation of Modality, Redundancy and Signalling Effects in Multimedia Learning with Abstract and Concrete Representation	M.A
Duygu Umutlu (Educational Technology)	Yavuz Akpınar	Effects of Different Video Modalities on Writing Achievement in Flipped English Classes	M.A

Educational Sciences

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Ayşe Aylin Buran	Zeynep Kızıltepe	The Analysis of Critical Thinking of University Students Enrolled in a Faculty of Education	Ph.D
Canan Aratemur Çimen	Fatma Gök	Differentiating Children Through Education: School Choices and Educational Practices of Middle-Class Families in Neoliberal Times	Ph.D
Sevgül Erdoğan	Fatma Nevra Seggie	Workplace Learning Through Social Media: A Study of Human Resources Employees in Turkish Companies	M.A
Sezen Bayhan Gür	Fatma Gök,  Özlem Ünlühisarcıklı	School Relocations in the Context of Urban Transformation and Education Policy Change in Turkey	Ph.D
Rahşan Sönmez	Ayşe Caner	The Role of Informal Learning in the Development of Teacher Attitudes Towards Students	M.A
Sevde Barış Şahbudak	Zeynep Hande Sart	Unraveling Rejection Sensitivity among University Students through Remembrances of Parental Acceptance-Rejection and Adverse Childhood Experiences	M.A
Mualla Oya Şakiroğlu	Fatoş Erkman	The Relationship Between Psychological Adjustment, Best Friend Acceptance-Rejection and Peer Attachment During Late Adolescence	M.A
Merve Şen	Bengü Börkan	The Acceptance of Disability Scale: Adaptation and Psychometric Analysis	M.A
Nagehan Pakdamar Tüzgen	Zeynep Hande Sart	Psychological Needs During Pregnancy: A Qualitative Analysis of New Mothers’ Introspections	M.A
Engin Yılmaz	Fatma Gök	The Phenomenon of Disability Perception in Blindness	Ph.D
Reneta Sibel Yolak	Sibel Akmehmet Şekerler	Teenagers’ Perceptions of Teacher Attitudes and the Influence of Teacher Attitudes on Students’ Lives in State Schools	M.A
Mine Şirin	Ayşe Caner	An analysis of widowhood and learning experiences of young widows	M.A

Foreign Language Education

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Zeynep Sena Abaylı	Yasemin Bayyurt, Leyla Mesude Martı	Decomposability and Transparency: A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Use of Phrasal Verbs in ELF	M.A
Sinem Aydoğan	Senem Yıldız	Task Orientation and Vocabulary Knowledge Types: How do They Relate to Collocational Knowledge?	M.A
Kıymet Merve Celen	Sumru Akcan	Program Evaluation of an English Language Teacher Education Practicum: Insights from Supervisiors, Student Teachers, and Graduates	M.A
Hande Karakaplan Hanoğlu	Ayşe Gürel	The Effects of Priming in the Production of L2 Morphology	M.A
Elifcan Öztekin	Naciye Gülcan Erçetin	Metacognitive Awareness of Listening Strategies in L2 English and L3 Italian	M.A
Filiz Rızaoğlu	Ayşe Gürel	Second Language Processing of English Past Tense Morphology	Ph.D
Selahattin Yılmaz	Yasemin Bayyurt, Leyla Mesude Martı	A Corpus-based Investigation of the Effect of Nativeness and Expertise on Reporting Practices in Academic Writing	M.A
Zeynep Mine Derince	Yasemin Bayyurt	An odyssey of discovery: Critical literacy in an English preparatory class	Ph.D

Primary Education

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Gaye Defne Ceyhan	Ebru Zeynep Muğaloğlu	Pre-service Teachers’ Plausibility Perceptions of Global Climate Change: The Role of Cognitive, Behavioral and Personal Variables	M.A
Beyza Olgun	Engin Ader	Preservice Mathematics Teachers Solving Word Problems: Visual-Spatial Abilities, Use of Representations, and Types of Mathematical Thinking	M.A
Nehir Cabi Zengin	Mine Gölgüven	The relationship between teachers’ power perception, teachers’ perception of child, and child-teacher interaction	M.A

The School of Applied Disciplines

International Trade

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Gulmammad Bashirov	Mehtap Işık	Renewable Energy Consumption, Carbon Emissions and Oil Prices: a Panel Data Analysis for G7 and BRICT Countries	M.A
Tülay Divarcı	Arzu Tektaş	An Efficiency Analysis of International Airline Alliances: An Empirical Study Using Data Envelopment Analysis	M.A
Tatsiana Hlekava	Ülfet Zeynep Ata	Criteria for and Determinants of Transportation Selection Decisions in Exports: A Case Study of Five Industries in Turkey	M.A
Murat Parlakgül	Nisan Selekler-Gökşen	Antecedents of Export Performance: The Case of The Turkish Textile and Apparel Industry	M.A
Enis Konuk	Nisan Selekler Gökşen	The relationship between customer participation in the service innovation process and customer satisfaction	M.A

Management Information Systems

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Murat Umut İzer	Aslı Sencer	A Decision Support System for Integrated Optimization of Production, Transportation and Pricing Decisions in a Supply Chain	M.A
Emre Rençberoğlu	Zuhal Tanrıkulu	A Privacy Paradox: The Power of Technological Surveillance and Its Effects on Information Technology Usage Behavior	M.A

Tourism Administration

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Begüm Aydın	Maria Dolores Alavrez	Sustainability in Cultural Tourism Destinations from the Perspective of Tourists	M.A

Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs

Asian Studies

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Hüseyin Oğuz Genç	Arzu Öztürkmen, Selçuk Esenbel	China’s Developmental State and Its Main Determinants of Growth During the Reform Era	M.A

Cognitive Science 

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Orhan Bilgin	Mine Nakipoğlu	Frequency effects in the processing of morphologically complex Turkish words	M.A