Theses in Humanities and Social Sciences - 2017

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences

History

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Anıl Aşkın	Yücel Terzibaşoğlu	The Environment, Institutions, and Economy in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire: The imperial Landed Estates of Mihaliç (1840-1850)	M.A
Zehra İlhan	Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu	The Socio-legal Status and Pictorial Representations of Children and Adolescents in Early Modern Ottoman Society	M.A
Derya Karabulut	Arzu Öztürkmen	The Transformation of Religious Readership in Alevi Communities: A Critical Analysis of the Dede Narratives	M.A.
Özgül Özdemir	Yücel Terzibaşoğlu	African Slaves in the 19th-Century Ottoman Empire	M.A
Sinem Erdoğan İşkorkutan	Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu Ersoy	The 1720 Imperial Festival in Istanbul: Festivity and Representation in the Early eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire	Ph.D
Şaban Ağlar	Derin Terzioğlu Sezer	Jewish Converts Refute Judaism: Conversions and Religious Polemic in the Late Fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire	M.A
Okcan Yıldırımtürk	Abdullah Ahmet Ersoy	An Ottoman Historian‘s Burden: Ziver History of Cyprus	M.A
Nazım Can Serbest	Koray Durak	Regime Change in Early Hellenistic Athens	M.A
Beste Aytuğ	Ahmet Ersoy	Built Heritage, Culture and Nation: Ali Saim Ülgen (1913-1963)	M.A

Linguistics

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Filiz Miraç Mutlu	Markus Pöchtrager	Valence and Saturation Phonology	M.A
Hilal Yıldırım Gündoğdu	Ayşe Hamide Aslı Göksel	The Structure of Diye Clauses in Turkish	M.A

Philosophy

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Esen Aksoy Özansü	Yıldız Silier	Sources of Repression, Aggression and Liberation in Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse	M.A
Hüseyin Güngör	Sun Demirli	Exact Semantics for Indicative Conditionals	M.A
Ayşe Sena Bozdağ	Berna Kılınç	Modeling Belief Revision via Belief Bases Using Situation Semantics	M.A
Cansu Hepçağlayan	Chryssi Sidiropoulos	Who are the Political Friends? Homonoia and Political Friendship in Aristotle’s Political Thinking	M.A
Tuğba Yoldaş	Stephen Voss	Problems of Self-Knowledge and Phenomenal Character	M.A
Ahmet Özcan Karabağ	Stephen Voss	Abstract Objects as Constituents of External Reality: A Defense of the Fregean Account Against Dummett’s Objections	M.A
Dilek Arlı Çil	Yıldız Silier	Reconsidering the Distinction Between Community and Society and the Possibility of Unity in Civil Society	Ph.D

Psychology

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Ayşe Işılay Sorgun	Ayşecan Boduroğlu	The Social Contagion of Memory for Strongly- and Weakly-Associated Word Pairs	M.A
Hediye Hilal Özkeçeci	Bilge Ataca	The Role of Contact and the Perception of Threat in Prejudice Towards Syrians in Turkey	M.A
Aysu Mutlutürk	Ayşecan Boduroğlu	The Structure and Organization of Collective Memory Representations	Ph.D
Emer Ozan Meral	İnci Ayhan	Mental Representations of Gay Men: The Role of Willingness to Contact and Disgust Sensitivity	M.A
Aslı Aktan Erciyes	Ali İ. Tekcan, Ayhan Aksu-Koç	The Bidirectional Relationship Between L1 and L2: Effects on Event Conceptualization and Narrative Discourse	Ph.D

Sociology

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Sercan Taş	Zafer Yenal	The Supermarketization and the Rise of Private Agri-Food Governance: GAP Certification in Antalya	M.A
Gözde Cöbek	Bülent Küçük	Rethinking Political Humor: a Dialogical Analysis of Social Media in Turkey	M.A
Eda Tarak	Meltem Ahıska	Historical and Political Encounters with the Nonhuman: Habitat II, the Crisis of Cohabitation, and the Wit(h)nessing Dogs	M.A
Muhammet Elyesa Koytak	Bülent Küçük	The Language of Experience: a Social Analysis of the Second New Poetry	M.A
Yakup Kıyanç	Ayfer Bartu Candan	Border Building and Breaking Practices on the Turkish-Syrian Border	M.A
Nurbanu Dursun	Bülenç Küçük	The Syrian "Other" in Everyday Life: Perspectives on Syrian Refugees in Üsküdar	M.A
Sumru Tamer	Ayfer Bartu Candan	State-making Through Disaster Management: The Case of Soma	M.A

Translation and Interpreting Studies

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Alaz Pesen	Özlem Berk Albachten	Symbiogenesis and Representation: A History of Greco-Turkish Song Translation 1908 – 2012	Ph.D
Deniz Malaymar	Arzu Akbatur	The “Once-Forgotten” Turkish Bestseller: (Re-) Contextualizing Sabahattin Ali’s Madonna in a Fur Coat	M.A
Nur Zeynep Kürük	Arzu Akbatur	The Turkish Ordeal: Written in “Voluntary” Exile, Self-Translated Under Ideological Embargo	M.A

Turkish Language and Literature

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Zehra Öztürk	Nur Gürani Arslan	Writing as a Space: Metadiegetic Narratives in Kırmızı Pelerinli Kent and Romantik Bir Viyana Yazı	M.A

Western Languages and Literatures

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Orhan Pehlivan (English Literature)	Matthew Gumpert	Technologies of the Self in Current Autobiographical Practices	M.A
Zeynep Özbarlas (Critical and Cultural Studies)	Didar Akar	The Role of Narrative in Creating the Ideal Woman: The Case of Hayat Magazine	M.A
Hazal Çorak (Critical and Cultural Studies)	Işıl Baş	The Limits of Pluralism: How Anti-Semitism Figures in the Oppositional Imaginaries in Turkey	M.A
Zeynep Şahintürk (Critical and Cultural Studies)	Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu	“A Living Dog Is Better Than a Dead Lion”: Representations of Animal Otherness in Post-1990s Independent Turkish Cinema	M.A

The Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Economics

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Oğuz Öztunalı	Ceyhun Elgin	Three Essays in Dynamic Macroeconomics	Ph.D
Seniha İdil Atasü	Bekir Burçay Erus	An Investigation of the Change in the Severe Material Deprivation Rate of Turkey	M.A
Ertunç Aydoğdu	Ceyhun Elgin	Two Essays on Applied Economics	M.A
Emrehan Aktuğ	Orhan Torul	An Investigation of Income Profiles in Turkey	M.A
Ege Aksu	Murat Kırdar	The Impact of Syrian Refugees on the Turkish Labor Market	M.A
Elif Bodur	Ünal Zenginobuz	On the Number of Brackets in Piecewise Linear Income Tax Systems: An Application	M.A
Merve Küçük	Begüm Özkaynak- Gürkan Kumbaroğlu	Substitution elasticities in an energy-augmented CES production function: An empirical analysis for Turkey	M.A
Ümit Yapıcı	Gökhan Özertan	Asymmetric Price Transmission in the Turkish Dried Nuts Market: Does It Verify Market Power?	M.A
Anıl Dönmez	Tolga Umut Kuzubaş	Real Exchange Rate and Export Behavior: Firm Level Evidence	M.A
Yunus Topbaş	Ünal Zenginbouz	Horizontal Coordination and Transparency of Information	M.A
Cevat Görkem Destan	Mehmet Yiğit Gürdal	The Influence of Group Decision Making on Search Behavior	M.A
Fatma Kübra Toka	Murat Koyuncu	Distributional Dynamics of Sectoral Change in the Long Run	M.A
Beste Bulut	Mehmet Yiğit Gürdal	The Timing of Uncertainty Resolution in Gift-Exchange Experiments	M.A

Management

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Bahar Köseoğlu	Nesrin Okay Akman	Financial Vulnerability and the Effects of Financial Openness on Banking Systems in Emerging Economies	Ph.D
Nevra Bedriye Baker Arapoğlu	Hayat Kabasakal	Authentic Leadership and Leader-member Exchange: The Moderating Effect of Leader Emotional Expressivity	Ph.D
Alev Özer	Hayat Kabasakal	Organizational Learning Culture, the Climate for Innovation, and Organizational Resilience	Ph.D
Michael Kam Barngrover	Mustafa Hayri Tongarlak	Description and Prediction: Knowledge Discovery in University Databases	Ph.D
Semra Çalışkan	Ayşegül Toker, V. Aslıhan Nasır	Antecedents of Consumer Intention to Use Personal Health Technologies: Revisiting the Technology Acceptance Model	Ph.D
Sevgin Batuk Turan	Hayat Kabasakal	The Dispositional and Contextual Determinants and Outcomes of Self-Leadership	Ph.D

Political Science and International Relations

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Patrick Joseph Skyes	Koray Çalışkan	Systemic Opposition Under a Tutelary Regime: Reformist Politics in the Iranian Parliament (2000-2004)	M.A
Buğra Yasin	Zeynep Gambetti	A Critical History of the Concept of Progress: Salvaging the Repressed Normative Content	Ph.D
Sinem Kavak	Mine Eder	Rethinking the Political Economy of Contemporary Water Struggles in Turkey from a Comparative Perspective: Space, Structures and Agency	Ph.D
Fatma Nur Zağralı Tunç	Tolga Sınmazdemir	Social Assistance in Turkey: an Overview of Seven Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundations	M.A
Sümeyye Mine İltekin	Murat Akan	The Politics of Religion: State Policy towards Muslims in Post-Soviet Russia	M.A
Melike Betül Tavşanlı	Mehtap Işık	The Economic and Political Rationales of Banking Mergers and Acquisitions in MENA After the Arab Spring	M.A
Sevin Gülfer Sağnıç	Dilek Çınar	Guests Who Drowned: Legal Ambiguities Behind Refugee Vulnerabilities	M.A
Mustafa Utku Güngör	Zeynep Gambetti	Threatening Security: Conflicting Conceptualizations of Security During the Gezi Park Protests	M.A

The Faculty of Education

Computer Education and Educational Technology

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Yiğit Aydın (Educational Technology)	Günizi Kartal	The Effects of Seductive Details and Topic Interest on Learning and Cognitive Load in Hypertext Environments	M.A
Beste Ulus	Diler Öner	Fostering Middle School Students’ Knowledge Integration Using the Web-Based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE)	M.A

Educational Sciences

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Hakan Ergin	Fatma Nevra Seggie	Internationalization of Higher Education via Distance Learning: A Grounded Theory Study in Turkey	Ph.D
Ayşe Beyazova Seçer	Ayşe Caner	Seeking Education Beyond Refuge: An Analysis of Syrian Parents’ Perspectives of Their Children's Education in Istanbul	Ph.D
Neriman Küçüker	Serkan Özel	The Influence of Item Format on Turkish Eighth Graders’ Performance on the TIMSS	M.A
Buket Eren Janssen	Bengi Börkan	The Effect of Curriculum and Classroom factors on TIMSS Mathematics Scores: A Cross-National Study	M.A
Merve Dökmeci	Hande Sart	Self-Compassion as a Mediator Between Parental Acceptance-Rejection and Emotional Reactivity among University Students	M.A

Foreign Language Education

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Emel Tozlu	Aylin Ünaldı	The Development of a Listening Test for Learners of Turkish as a Foreign Language	M.A
Fatma Küçük	Aylin Ünaldı	Assessing Academic Writing Skills in Turkish as a Foreign Language	M.A
Elif Kemaloğlu Er	Yasemin Bayyurt	Integrating ELF Awareness into Pre-Service Teacher Education: Insights from Theory and Practical Experience	Ph.D
Nesrin Kutlay	Ayşe Gürel	The Processing of Morphology in Adult Second Language Acquisition	Ph.D
Büşra Ayça Karaman	Yasemin Bayyurt	English Language Teacher Recruitment Practices in Higher Education Institutions: A Case Study in Turkey	M.A
Burcu Varol	Gülcan Erçetin	Annotation and Working Memory in Second Language Reading, Incidental Vocabulary Learning, and Perceived Cognitive Load	Ph.D
Sezen Bektaş	Belma Haznedar, Nalan Babür	Cognitive and Linguistic Components of Reading Acquisition in Turkish: Evidence from Second and Fourth Graders	M.A

Primary Education

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Şükrüye Nazlı Can	Ebru Zeynep Muğaloğlu	Using a Model-Evidence Link Diagram to Explore Nuclear Energy: The Effects on Seventh Graders’ Risk Perception and Understanding of the Issues	M.A
Nihal Karabaş	Ebru Kaya	The Effect of Scientific Practice-Based Instruction on Seventh Graders’ Perceptions of Scientific Practices	M.A
Fetiye Erbil	Zeynep Erdiller Yılmaz	Children's Participation in the Preschool Classroom: an an Ethnographic Case Study	M.A
Merve Özgünlü	Ayşegül Metindoğan	Factors Associated with School Readiness in Turkey	M.A
Canan Güneş	Serkan Özel	Teacher Engagement in Online Professional Development Follow-up: The Role of the Workplace and ICT Familiarity	M.A

The School of Applied Disciplines

International Trade

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Deniz Avşar	Mehtap Işık	The Determinants of High-Technology Export Performance: An Empirical Investigation in BRICT	M.A
Semih Bulut	Gözde Ünal	A Sustainability Analysis of Turkish Banks Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process	M.A
Nusret Soğancılar	Nisan Selekler Gökşen	An Institutional Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Turkish Banking Sector	M.A

Management Information Systems

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Kevser Gülnur Gökçe	Özgür Döğerlioğlu	A Comparative Analysis of Employee and Organization Perspectives about “Bring Your Own Device” Policies	M.A
Haktan Cinkılıç	Aslı Sencer	A Decision Support System for Production Planning and Scheduling in a Smart Factory Environment	M.A
Yiğit Aşıroğlu	Aslıhan Nasır	Consumers’ Mobile Application Usage in Turkey	M.A
Barış Çimen	Ahmet Onur	Text Classification via Word Embeddings: An Application for Turkish Music Mood Detection	M.A
Şeyhmus Atlı	Sona Mardikyan	A Decision Support System for Evaluating Information Technology Projects	M.A
Esra Koçak	Aslıhan Nasır	The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Behaviors of Instagram Users vs. Non-users	M.A

Tourism Administration

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Ecem Öznalbant	Maria Dolores Alavrez	A Socio-Cultural Perspective on Yoga Tourism	M.A

Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs

Asian Studies

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Emre Tunç Sakaoğlu	Asım Karaömerlioğlu	Patterns of Contemporary Russo-Syrian Relations: A Realist Interpretation from the Moscow Perspectıve	M.A
Hülya Görkem Demirbulak	Arzu Öztürkmen	Changing the Status of the Presidency: A Comparison of Constitutional Amendments in South Korea and Turkey	M.A

Cognitive Science

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Elif Canseza Kaplan	Esra Mungan	Knowledge-Based Expectation Effects on Pitch Perception: A Cross-Cultural Investigation	M.A.
Elise Anne Constance Michon	Mine Nakipoğlu	Velir or Veler? Exploring Adults' Implicit Knowledge of an Irregular Verbal Pattern: The Turkish Aorist	M.A.
Ece Yallak	Esra Mungan	The Effect of Processing Fluency on Semantic Illusion	M.A
Selahattin Doğa Gülhan	İnci Ayhan	A Psychophysical Investigation and a Philosophical Discussion on Perception	M.A
Berhan Şenyazar	İnci Ayhan	The Role of Attention on Scene Recognition	M.A

Social Policy

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Elifcan Çelebi	Volkan Yılmaz	The local welfare system in Turkey: The case of municipal care services in Istanbul	M.A
Anıl Gürbüztürk	Ayşe Buğra	Social housing policy and the welfare regime in Turkey: A comparative perspective	M.A
Yunus Furkan Arıcan	Ayşe Buğra	The contesting roles of the Hak-İş Trade Union confederation: Class and political identities	M.A