Head of the Center

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sinan Ünlüsoy

Contact: sinan.unlusoy@yasar.edu.tr

Sinan Ünlüsoy studied Archaeology and History of Art at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He joined Yaşar University in 2012 after receiving his Ph.D. from the Institute of Prehistory at Tübingen University in 2009. Dr. Ünlüsoy has participated in several excavations and surveys in Turkey. His research interests include Bronze Age Archaeology of Aegean and Anatolia, Field Archaeology, Political Economy and Cultural Evolution of the ancient societies in the Mediterranean. He is currently directing the “Northern Tokat Archaeological Survey” project in the mid-Black Sea region of Anatolia.

Please see his profile page on Academia.edu for further information on Prof. Ünlüsoy’s publications and other materials.

Selected Publications

Pernicka, Ernst, Sinan Ünlüsoy and Stephen W. E. Blum (eds) (2016). Early Bronze Age Troy.  Universitat Tubingen, Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH: Bonn.

Ünlüsoy, Sinan (2016). Troy and the Aegean During the Third Millenium. In Pernicka, Ernst, Sinan Ünlüsoy and Stephen W. E. Blum (eds.) Early Bronze Age Troy.  Universitat Tubingen, Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH: Bonn.

Roosevelt, Christopher H., Peter Cobb, Emanuel Moss, Brandon R. Olson and Sinan Ünlüsoy (2015). Excavation is Destruction Digitalization: Advances in Archaeological Practice. Journal of Field Archaeology, 40 (3):  325-346.

Ünlüsoy, Sinan (2011). Die Stratigraphie der Burg von Troia II. Archäologisches Nachrichtenblatt, 16, 65-75.

Researcher (Expert)

Dr. Defne Gönenç

Contact: defne.gonenc@yasar.edu.tr

Defne Gönenç is a motivated and energetic political ecology researcher. She obtained her Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva, Switzerland, in 2018 with a minor in law. She received her M.Phil. in International Relations from the University of Cambridge in 2011 and her B.Sc. in International Relations from the Middle East Technical University, with a minor in economics in 2010. She participated in an exchange program at Sciences Po Paris. Her research interests cover environmental politics and justice, and the political economy of developing countries with a focus on Turkey, India and Greece.

Selected Publications

Gönenç, Defne (2020). Conceptualizing Norm Fusion through Environmental Rights. Environmental Politics. Online first. doi: 10.1080/09644016.2020.1743610

Gönenç, Defne, Dario Piselli, and Yixian Sun (2020). The Global Economic System and Access and Allocation. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics. Online first. doi: 10.1007/s10784-020-09472-w

Gönenç, Defne ve Mete Gönenç (2019). Çevre ve İktisat Politikası Gibi Bir Şey (Something Like Environmental and Economic Policy). İstanbul: İkinci Adam Yayınevi.

Gönenç, Defne (2019). Türkiye’de Sivil Toplum ve Çevre Politikası (Civil Society and Environmental Politics in Turkey). Mimarlık, 409, 33-36.

Gönenç, Defne (2019). Litigation Process of the Social Movements as a Driver of Norm Transformation? Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 32 (1), 43-60. doi:10.1080/09557571.2018.1556245

Gönenç, Defne, and Alper Almaz (2018). Bir Süreç Olarak Hoşnutsuzların Çevreciliği: Hindistan’dan Sardar Sarovar Barajı Örneği (Environmentalism of the Malcontent as a Process: The Example of Sardar Sarovar Dam from India). Alternatif Politika, 10(2), 156-180.

Gönenç Defne, and Aysegul Kibaroğlu (2017). İklim Güvenliği Kavramının Türkiye İklim Politikasındaki Yeri (The Concept of Climate Security in Turkey’s Climate Policies). Alternatif Politika. December 2017, Special Issue on Climate Change and Energy, 1-26.

Please see her profile page on Academia.edu for further information on her writing.