Semih Gokatalay

Semih Gokatalay is a graduate student in the History Department at UC San Diego. He also has two master’s degrees – one in Economics and one in Middle Eastern Studies. He has been teaching in Turkey and the US since 2012 and tutored both high-school students and freshmen in a variety of courses both in English and Turkish. He can speak a total of 6 languages. He has also published several peer-reviewed and academic studies in highly prestigious journals.

• Ph.D. in Middle Eastern History, University of California, San Diego, CA (in process)
• M.S. in Middle Eastern Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara/Turkey
• M.S. in Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara/Turkey
• B.S. in Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara/Turkey

• Instructional Assistant, Making of the Modern World Writing Program, San Diego, CA (2017-2021)
• Twentieth Century and Beyond (MMW 15) (Spring 2019 & Summer 2020)
• Revolution, Industry and Empire (MMW 14) (Fall 2018 & Winter 2019)
• New Ideas and Cultural Encounters (MMW 13) (Spring 2018, Spring 2020 & Spring 2021)
• Classical and Medieval Traditions (MMW 12) (Winter 2018, Winter 2020 & Winter 2021)
• Pre-history and Ancient Foundations (MMW 11) (Fall 2019 & Fall 2020)
• Instructor, Department of History, San Diego, CA 2020
  Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Ankara, Turkey (2012-2015)
• Economy, Society and Civilization 1 (Econ 107)
• Economy, Society and Civilization 2 (Econ 108)
• Introduction to Econometrics 1 (Econ 301)

• “The Anatomy of the 1948 FLHG Liquidation: A Mirror of Intra-elite Conflicts in early Cold War Turkey,” Prisms (Perspectives on Southeast European History) 1(1) (2020), 65-102 (forthcoming).
• “Economic Nationalism of the Committee of Union and Progress Revisited: The Case of the Society for the Ottoman Navy,” Nationalities Papers 48(5)(2020): 942-956.
• The Political Economy of Corporations in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic: 1908-1929 (Ankara: Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi Başkanlığı, 2019).
• “Turkey’s Attempts to Improve its Reputation during the Making of the Post-War Turkish-American Rapprochement (1945-1950),” Turkish Studies 20(5) (2019): 754-775.
• “Erken Soğuk Savaş Ankara’sında Sinema Kültürü” (Cinema Culture in Ankara during the early Cold War), Journal of Ankara Studies, 7(1) (2019): 147-174.
• “Erken Soğuk Savaş Döneminde Türk-Amerikan Yakınlaşmasının Ankara Kent Kültürüne Etkileri” (The Effects of the Turkish-American Rapprochement on Ankara City Culture during the early Cold War), Journal of Ankara Studies, 6(2) (2019): 211-235.
• “Minimum Resale Price Maintenance in EU in the aftermath of the US Leegin Decision,” European Journal of Law and Economics (2015): 1-27 (joint paper with Elif Cemre Hazıroğlu).