WINNERS
The first prize: Kemal Kirişci. Boğaziçi University. “Turkey’s engagement with its neighborhood: A “synthetic” and multi-dimensional look at Turkey’s foreign policy transformation” .
Second prize: Güneş Murat Tezcur & Alexandru Grigorescu. Loyola University Chicago. “Europeanization Regionalism in Turkish Foreign Policy” .
Third prize: Clemens Hoffman & Can Cemgil. Sussex University “A Pax Turca in the Middle East?” .
The first prize: Juliette Tolay, University of Delaware, with her essay titled: "Turkey’s Other Multicultural Debate: Lessons for the EU".
Second prize: Dr. Akça Ataç, Çankaya University, with her work titled "Another Brick on The Tower of Babel: Turkey's Possible Challenges and Contributions to The EU’s Language Policy".
Third prize: Yrd. Doç. Dr. Şener Aktürk; Visiting Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University; Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Koç University, with his work titled "The Impact of Ethno-Religious Demography on Strengthening Secularism and the
Dynamics of Multiculturalism: Turkey’s Accession into the European Union".
The first prize: Dr. Kabir Tambar of University of Vermont, with his essay titled: "Paradoxes of Pluralism: Ritual Aesthetics and the Alevi Revival in Turkey".
Second prize: Nora Fisher Onar, doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford with her work titled "Beyond Binaries: 'Europe', Pluralism, and a Revisionist-Status Quo Key to Turkish Politics".
Third prize: Murat Somer, Associate Professor of Koç University with his work titled "Democracy (For Me): Religious and Secular Beliefs and Social and Political Pluralism in Turkey".
First Prize: Amy Singer, aAsst. Prof. of Ottoman History in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University, with her essay, "The Persistence of Philanthropy".
Second Prize: Maureen Jackson, doctoral candidate at the Washington University Comparative Literature Department, with her essay "Crossing Musical Worlds: Jews Making Ottoman and Turkish Classical Music".
Third Prize: Olivier Bouquet, Asst. Prof. at the Nice Sophia-Antipolis University, and research fellow at the Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean Centre in Nice, with his essay "Old Elites in a New Republic: The Reconversion of Ottoman Bureaucratic Families in Turkey (1909-1939)".
Honorable mentions: Zoe Griffith, CASA fellow at the American University in Cairo, with her essay "Calligraphy and the art of statecraft in the late Ottoman Empire and modern Turkish Republic" and
Denise R. Gill, doctoral candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara's Ethnomusicology and Women's Studies Department with her essay "Performing Mesk, (re)Articulating History: Legacies of Transmission in Contemporary Turkish Musical Practices".
First prize: Dr. Christine Philliou, Assistant Professor, Department of History Columbia University
Essay: : "The Paradox of Perceptions: Interpreting the Ottoman Past Through the National Present"Second Prize:
a) Dr. Suhnaz Yilmaz, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations Koc University
b) Dr. Ipek K. Yosmaoglu, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Essay: "Fighting the Specters of the Past: Dilemmas of Ottoman Legacy in the Balkans and the Middle East"Third Prize: Maximilian Harthmuth, Sabancı University. Student, History Graduate Program.
Essay: "De/Constrducting a 'Legacy in Stone': Of Interpretive and Historiographical Problems Concerning the Ottoman Cultural Heritage in the Balkans"Honorable Mention: Edin Hajdarpasic, Department of History and Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan.
Essay: "Out of the Ruins of the Ottoman Empire: Reflections on Ottoman Legacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina"Honorable Mention: Dr. Charles Sabatos, Postdoctoral Fellow, Oberlin College.
Essay: " 'Worse than a Turk': Slovak Perceptions of Ottoman Legacy in Eastern Europe"
First Prize : Lerna K. Yanik, Professor, Department of Political Science, Bilkent University, Ankara
Essay : "Beyond 'Bridges', 'Crossroads' and 'Buffer Zones': Defining a new international role for Turkey".Second Prize : Ian O. Lesser, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
Essay : "Turkey and The United States: From geopolitics to concerted strategy".Third Prize (a), Demet Yalcin, Assistant Prof. of International Relations, Dept. of International Relations, Koc University, Istanbul
Essay : "The impact of the European Union on democracy in Turkey and its implications for the region".Third Prize (b), Suat Kiniklioglu, Director, The German Marshall Fund of the U.S., Ankara
Essay : "The Anatomy of Turkish-Russian relations".Honorable Mention, Leda-Agapi Glyptis, PhD Candidate, Government Department, London School of Economics, London
Essay : "Which way to the Future? Kemalist Westernisation for the New Millenium".Honorable Mention, Yigit Kargin, M.A. Student, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Public Affairs and Management, Carleton University, Ottawa
Essay : "The forgotten neighbor upstairs: The rising importance of Turkish-Russian in the newly emerging world order".Honorable Mention, Hugh Pope, Author/Correspondent, Sons of the Turkic World, Istanbul
Essay : "Coming into fashion: Turkey's new edge in the Middle East".Honorable Mention, Nathalie Tocci and Luigi Narbone, Marie Curie Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European Univeristy Institute, Florence
Essay : "Ebbs and flows in Turkey's turbulent path to Europe".