Prof.

Itır Erhart

+90 212 311 7720

Santralistanbul / E4 107

1- Key areas of study

  • Gender
  • Human Rights
  • Sociology of Sports
  • Social Movements
  • Philosophy of Communication
  • Social Entrepreneurship

 

2- Academic Works

2019, Eslen-Ziya, H, McGarry, A. Jensen, O., Erhart, Itir, Korkut, U. Beyond the iconic protest images: the performance of ‘everyday life’ on social media during Gezi Park. Social Movement Studies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/147428...

2018, I. Erhart, H. Eslen Ziya,  Sinemada Yaşlılık ve Erkeklik (Aging and Masculinity in Cinema), Yaşlanma ve Yaşlılık: Disiplinlerarası Bakış Açıları, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları

2017, I. Erhart, Do Women Get the Offside Rule? Female Fans, Labeling and Stereotypes in Turkey, Race, Gender and Sport: The Politics of Ethnic 'Other' Girls and Women, Routledge.

2017, I. Erhart, A. Sayan, V. Görgülü, & Y. Aslanbay, A Social Influence Perspective on Uses of Online Football Forums: The Case with Turkish Football Fans, Online Communities as Agents of Change and Social Movements, IGI Global. 

2017, I. Erhart, H. Eslen-Ziya, Blossoms in the Steppes: Republican Masculinity Project in Crisis, Istanbul University Journal of Women's Studies 1, 17-29.

2016, I. Erhart, Women, Islamic Feminism and Children Only Soccer in Turkey: empowerment or discrimination? Sport in Islam and in Muslim Communities, Routledge.

2015, I. Erhart, H. Eslen-Ziya, Mr. Incredible, Man of Action, Man of Power: What If He Loses It All? Aging Heroes: Growing Old in Popular Culture, Rowman & Littlefield.

2015, I. Erhart, H. Eslen-Ziya, “Toward postheroic leadership: A case study of Gezi’s collaborating multiple leaders”, Leadership.

2014, I. Erhart “United in Protest: From ‘Living and Dying With Our Colours’ to ‘Let All The Colours of the World Unite’”, International Journal of the History of Sport 31, 1724-38.

2014, I. Erhart, H. Eslen-Ziya, Janissary: An Orientalist Heroine or a Role Model for Muslim Women, Heroines of Comic Books and Literature: Portrayals in Popular Culture, Rowman & Littlefield.

2013, I.Erhart, ‘Biopolitics & the Gezi Protests’, MDHSS2013, Atlantis Press, 301-304.

2013, I. Erhart, H. Eslen-Ziya, ‘Dengeli, Ölçülü, Yetinen ve Tek Tip Türk Çocuğu: Resimli Çocuk Kitaplarında Kimlik İnşası’, Sosyoloji Araştırmaları Dergisi 16-1, 46-73.

2013, I. Erhart, ‘Ladies of Besiktas: A dismantling of male hegemony at Inönü Stadium’, International Review for the Sociology of Sport 48, 780-92.

2012, I. Erhart, ‘Bir Girişimci Gazetecilik Projesi: MADE’, Pi, 53-55

2012, I.Erhart, G. Sanul, Gençtur: Dünya Vatandaşlığı’na İlk Adım, Büyüyen Kapsayıcı Piyasalar: Türkiye’de Sosyal Girişimcilik Vakaları, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları.

2012, I. Erhart, ‘The Disabled Sporting Body and The Media’, Akdeniz İletişim, 80-89.

2010, I. Erhart, ‘Privacy, Confidentiality and the Press’, Empedocles 2, 157-66.

2008, I.Erhart, ‘The Human Being’s Right to Privacy’, Communication in the Millennium, 55-63.

2008, I. Erhart, Ben Neyim? Kişiler ve İnsanlar Üzerine Bir Çalışma, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi


Education

Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Ph.D. in Philosophy (2006)

Dissertation: What am I? A Non-Psychological Answer to a Fundamental Question

Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

M. Phil. in Philosophy (2000)

Thesis: Personal Identity Through Time

Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

M.A in Philosophy (1999)

Thesis: The Existence of Two Things at the Same Place at the Same Time

Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

B.A. in Western Languages and Literatures and Philosophy (1997)

Thesis: The Existentialist Novel

Courses

MED 251 Reading Skills

MED 252 Writing Skills

MED 231 Current Issues in Communication

MED 306 Seminar in Communication Studies

MED 179 & MED 180 Foundations of Media Studies I & II

MED 378 Media and Human Rights

MED 218 Gender and Media

MED 516 Sports & Media

MED 513 Gender & Media

MED 501 Media Theory I

COMM 703 Communication Colloquium I

GE 216 Aging and the Elderly

GE 219 Prejudıces, Stereotypes and Disability

SPR 322 Sport Sociology

Areas of Interest

Long distance running

Social Entrepreneurship

Fundraising



Rewards and Achievements

2014, Ashoka Fellow

2010, JCI, Ten Outstanding Young Persons

2009, Sabanci Foundation, Turkey's Changemakers

Other Information

Adim Adim, Co-Founder

Acik Acik, Co-Founder

Ashoka Turkey, Board Member

TEGV, Trustee