Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bahar Gürsel

Contact

Social Sciences Building, #Z-36

+90 312 210 31 43

bgursel@metu.edu.tr

Education

Ph. D., Bilkent University, 2007

M. A., Bilkent University, 2000

Areas of Interest

Diplomatic, social and cultural history of the United States; modern Italian history; immigration history; ephemera studies; nineteenth-century children's literature; imagology; visual culture and history, the representation of the East in the West.

Courses

HIST 303 European History III

HIST 338 History of the British Empire since 1603

HIST 343 Recent American History since 1945

HIST 427 American Cultural History I

HIST 428 American Cultural History II

HIST 554 Readings in American Culture

LNA 501 Latin America: Past, Present and Future Trends

Selected Publications

"Opening the Chrysalis: Willard D. Straight's Sketches, Photographs, and Accounts of Korea's Interaction with the Outside World, 1904–5." New Global Studies, 2021. DOI: 10.1515/ngs-2021-0055

"İngiliz ve Amerikan Kamuoyunda Sakarya Meydan Muharebesi/ The British and American Public Opinion about the Battle of Sakarya." Temuçin Faik Ertan & Hasan Dinçer, eds. Dördüncü Uluslararası Sakarya Meydan Muharebesi ve Haymana Sempozyumu (11-12 Eylül 2019)/ The Fourth International Symposium of Sakarya Battle and Haymana (11-12 September 2019), Ankara: Ankara Üniversitesi Basımevi, 2021, 299-311.

"Flora J. Cooke's Tree Stories: Progressive Education and Nature in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century United States." Carmen Concilio & Daniela Fargione, eds. Trees in Literature and the Arts: Human Arboreal Perspectives in the Anthropocene, Lanham: Lexington Books - Rowman & Littlefield, 2021, 151-161. ISBN: 978-1-7936-2279-2

Bahar Gürsel, Alev Ayaokur, Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu, haz. Geçici Belgelerin Kalıcı Etkisi: I. Uluslararası Efemera Çalışmaları Sempozyumu, Bildiriler/ Permanent Impact of Transient Documents: Ist International Ephemera Studies Symposium, Proceedings. Ankara: Koç Üniversitesi VEKAM, 2020.

"Türk-Amerikan Derneği: Bir Ankara Kurumunun İlk Yirmi Yılı/ "Turkish-American Association: The First Twenty Years of an Ankara Institution." Ankara Araştırmaları Dergisi/ Journal of Ankara Studies 8 (1): 177-186 (2020). https://doi.org/10.5505/jas.2020.18480

"Geç On Dokuzuncu ve Erken Yirminci Yüzyıl Amerikan Stereograf Kartlarındaki Osmanlı İmgesi." Journal of Universal History Studies 3 (1): 101-114 (2020). https://doi.org/10.38000/juhis.738362

"'Afrika'da Savaş': Türk Basınının İtalya'nın 1940 Mısır İşgaline Bakışı." Tarih Araştırmaları Dergisi 39 (67): 677-695 (2020). https://doi.org/10.35239/tariharastirmalari.656851

"'Kararı Kendiniz Verin!': Erken Yirminci Yüzyıl Amerikan Tütün Reklamcılığında Doğulu Kadın ve Erkeğin Tasviri/ "'Judge for Yourself!': The Depiction of the Oriental Woman and Man in Early Twentieth-Century American Tobacco Advertising." Kebikeç 48 (2019): 321-336.

"'Marietza': An Example of Catherine Maria Sedgwick's Depiction of the 'Other' in her Books for Children." Women's Writing, 25 (1): 66-79 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2017.1323388

"Teaching National Identity and Alterity: Nineteenth-Century American Primary School Geography Textbooks." Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society 10(1): 106-126 (2018). https://doi.org/10.3167/jemms.2018.100107