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Author Archives: Cihan Tekay

About Cihan Tekay

Cihan Tekay is a Graduate Fellow and Assistant Director at the Futures Initiative. She is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her dissertation on the political economy of Turkey's electrification explores how people’s engagement with science, technology, and popular political ideologies shape visions of the future. She is committed to public scholarship, academic freedom, and imagining fair and equitable futures for the public university. She has been a co-editor of the Turkey section on Jadaliyya since 2013.

Creating Space within Constraints: A Reflection on Conference Planning in a Pandemic
1304, 2021

Creating Space within Constraints: A Reflection on Conference Planning in a Pandemic

  • Cihan Tekay
  • April 13, 2021
  • FI Events, Reflection
  • 253

Photo by Chris Montgomery on Unsplash. There is nothing like a pandemic to make one question what an academic conference is for.

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0203, 2021

Apply now! Louise Lennihan Arts and Sciences Grants, 2021

  • Cihan Tekay
  • March 2, 2021
  • Announcements, Research
  • 370

  Apply here by April 4, 2021 The Futures Initiative is pleased to announce the fifth annual Dr. Louise Lennihan Arts &

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Reflections on Black History Month 2021
0202, 2021

Reflections on Black History Month 2021

  • Cihan Tekay
  • February 2, 2021
  • Events of interest, Pedagogy Guide, Reflection, student-centered pedagogy
  • 365

2020 has been a seminal year for Black history, present and future in the US, as well as globally. Black Lives Matter

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October 7 Event Recap: Graduate Education for the Public Good at UVa Scholars’ Lab
2010, 2020

October 7 Event Recap: Graduate Education for the Public Good at UVa Scholars’ Lab

  • Cihan Tekay
  • October 20, 2020
  • FI Events, Reflection
  • 435

On Wednesday, October 7th, Katina Rogers and I gave a virtual talk at the University of Virginia, organized by Scholars’ Lab and

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0809, 2020

Anatomy of a Team Meeting

  • Cihan Tekay
  • September 8, 2020
  • Pedagogy Guide, Reflection, student-centered pedagogy
  • 380

At the Futures Initiative, we have a 2-hour meeting with the whole team every week where we plan our collective work, update

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Thinking through a pandemic: reflections & resources from humanities and social sciences
0804, 2020

Thinking through a pandemic: reflections & resources from humanities and social sciences

  • Cihan Tekay
  • April 8, 2020
  • Reflection, Research
  • 545

Cihan: On March 10, when the Futures Initiative team was preparing to start working remotely, I started to write a few paragraphs

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0703, 2020

Reflections: Teaching writing & critical thinking; giving feedback to students

  • Cihan Tekay
  • March 7, 2020
  • Reflection, student-centered pedagogy
  • 342

One of the critiques I got from a student’s evaluation of my teaching last year was that I spent a lot of

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0303, 2020

What if graduate education serves ALL students and the public good?

  • Cihan Tekay
  • March 3, 2020
  • FI Events, Reflection, Research, student-centered pedagogy
  • 309

Last fall, we issued a call for proposals to scholars across the U.S. to think together with us on these questions: How

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0409, 2019

My Introduction: Joining the FI as a Graduate Fellow

  • Cihan Tekay
  • September 4, 2019
  • Announcements, Reflection
  • 304

Hello! My name is Cihan Tekay and I am a new Graduate Fellow at the Futures Initiative, where I will be working

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