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Ph.D. Social Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1973. Teaching and research appointments at New York University, Bosphorus University (Istanbul), Hunter College (CUNY), Hamilton College, Istanbul Bilgi University. Recipient of fellowships and research grants from Ford Foundation, NIMH, Population Council, NSF, Rockefeller Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, American Philosophical Society. Consultant on various urban projects in Turkey for OECD, USAID, Turkish State Planning Organization (World Bank supported project), International Union of Local Authorities. Publications include Istanbul Households: Marriage, Family and Fertility 1880-1940 (Cambridge University Press, 1991), The Middle East City: An Urban Management Perspective (IULA, 1992) and City, Family, History [in Turkish] (Iletisim, 2002), as well as other books and numerous scholarly articles and applied publications. Abstract of Presentation by Alan Duben, Istanbul Bilgi University Istanbul Bilgi University Community Outreach Programs This presentation focuses on the numerous innovative outreach programs undertaken in recent years by Istanbul Bilgi University, a new urban-based private non-profit university with a strong social science orientation. Such programs include various student-initiated community improvement projects developed and implemented in coordination with local authorities and other public actors, university-sponsored adult education courses, community sports programs, music programs, programs focusing on human rights education in local public schools and community-based legal aid, as well as Roma studies and research, among others.
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