Atacan Atakan

E-mail : atacan.atakansabanciuniv.edu

Areas of Interest :

History of Children and Childhood in the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East, History of the Feminist Movement in the Ottoman Empire and the Republican Turkey, Cultural and Social History of the Late Ottoman Empire, Body Politics, Nationalism, Gender Theories

Awards :

Sabancı University Teaching Awards - 2024 First Year University Courses Award - First Place Winner. - Sabancı University 2025
Sabancı University Teaching Awards - 2024 First Year University Courses Award - Third Place Winner - Sabancı University 2024

Membership :

Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY) - Member, Middle East Studies Association (MESA) - Member, Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies (AMECYS) - Board Member

Publications :

Book Section / Chapter

Atakan, Atacan, "The Ottoman Empire and its legacies: reconsideration and decolonization of Islamicate sexualities", Colonialisms and Queer Politics: Sexualities, Genders, and Unsettling Colonialities, Corrêa, Sonia and Gomes da Costa, Gustavo and Waites, Matthew (eds.), UK: Oxford University Press, August 2026, 181-205

Before SU Publications:

Book •A Teacher, Agitator, and Guide: Talebe Defteri and Formation of an Ideal Child, 1913-1919, İstanbul:Libra Yayınevi, 2016.

Book Chapter •“Öldürmek ya da Öldürmemek: Balkan Savaşları Sonrası Çocukların Ekonomik Alanda SeferberEdilmesi ve Irkçılığın İzdüşümleri” [To Kill or Not to Kill: State Racism and Children’s Mobilization inEconomic Realm During the Post-Balkan Wars Era] in Türkiye’de Tarih ve Tarihçilik: Kavramlar vePratikler [History and Historiography in Turkey: Concepts and Practices], ed. Ümit Kurt and DoğanGürpınar, Ankara: Heretik Yayıncılık, 2018.

Article •“Creating an Enemy: Children’s Magazines and Different Faces of Enmity (1913-1918),” AthensJournal of Mediterranean Studies, Vol. 1 No. 4, (2015): 341-356.

Book Review •Review of Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire, by Nazan Maksudyan, MiddleEast Media and Book Reviews Online, Vol. 3, no: 4 (April 2015). <http://middleeastreviewsonline.com/membr_review/orphans-and-destitute-children-in-the-late-ottoman-empire>