Mehmet Ekinci
mehmet6ekinci[at]gmail.comACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
1. Ekinci, M. Book Review of ‘‘Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey, Begüm Adalet’’ YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 1 (December 2019): 203—205.
2. Ekinci, M. “We Don’t Need Another Deficit Model, This Time For STS.” In Innovating STS in Turkey: Boundaries, Translations, and Temporalities, created by Duygu Kaşdoğan and Aybike Alkan. In Innovating STS Digital Exhibit, curated by Aalok Khandekar and Kim Fortun. Society for Social Studies of Science, August 2019.
3. Ekinci, M., Kaşdoğan D. and Ansal H., “Bilim, Teknoloji ve Toplum Çalışmaları’na bir giriş”, Toplum ve Bilim, İletişim Yayınları, 2018
4. Ekinci, M., “Genetik Bilimi ve Tıp: Yeni Hastalıklar, Yeni Toplumsal Kimlikler”, Paper published in Biyoetik Araştırmaları (Bioethics Studies) edited by Yeşim Işıl Ülman and Savaş Volkan Genç, Türkiye Biyoetik Derneği Yayını, No: XVI, Istanbul, 2012
5. Ekinci, M., “Şifayı Meydanlarda, Siyaseti İnternette Aramak: Türkiye'de Yeni Hasta Örgütlenmeleri” Book Chapter in Neoliberalizm ve Mahremiyet: Türkiye'de Beden Sağlık ve Cinsellik edited by Cenk Özbay, Ayşecan Terzioğlu and Yeşim Yasin, Metis Yayınları, Istanbul, 2010
6. Ekinci, M., “Modern Mühürleme Mekanizmaları –Ulusal DNA Veritabanları” Published in Birikim Monthly Journal, Istanbul, 2009
WRITINGS
1. Ekinci, M. “İçerikteki Huzursuzluk.” Suret Psikokültürel Analiz, Sayı 12, Kara Ayna / İlginç Zamanlar dosyası, Ocak 2023.
2. Ekinci, M. “Kalbini Derinin Üstünde Taşı: Yakın Geleceğin Akıllı Dövmeleri.” Bant Mag, 28 Aralık 2022.
3. Ekinci, M. “20. Yüzyıl Kulüplerinin Yerel Tarihinde Gececil Bir Gezinti.” Bant Mag, 11 Temmuz 2021.
4. Ekinci, M. “Kaçamıyoruz.” Bant Mag, 18 Ekim 2019.
5. Ekinci, M. “Richard Mosse’un Merceğinden Sıcak-Soğuk Dalgaları ve Mülteci Kampları.” Bant Mag, 3 Ocak 2019.
Conceptual Texts for Artworks
1. Ekinci, M. “Exhibition Review: Unbinding Histories.” Curated by Çağla Demirbaş, The Association for Visual Arts (AVA), Cape Town, South Africa, 22 August 2024 - 3 October 2024.
2. Sönmez, O., In collaboration with Mehmet Ekinci. Inbound. Contemporary Istanbul '15 Exhibition, June 2021. Conceptual text by Mehmet Ekinci.
3. Sönmez, O., In collaboration with Jona Hoier and Mehmet Ekinci. Sunscriber. Kunsthaus Graz, Austria, 09 April 2021 - 24 November 2021. Conceptual text by Mehmet Ekinci.
4. Sönmez, O., In collaboration with Mehmet Ekinci. Prothesengott. Digi.logue - Futuretellers Exhibition, September 2017, Istanbul. Conceptual text by Mehmet Ekinci.
EDITORIAL WORK
1. Kaşdoğan, D., Kurtiç, E., ve Ekinci, M. (Ed.). Material Politics in Turkey: Infrastructure, Science, and Expertise. Bloomsbury Publishing, Ocak 2025.
2. Canguilhem, G. Yaşam Bilgisi (La connaissance de la vie). Fransızcadan çeviren: Adem Beyaz. Yayıma hazırlayan: Mehmet Ekinci. 1. Baskı, Mayıs 2023, İstanbul: Kolektif Kitap.
3. Özdoğan, K., Tatari, M. F., ve Bilgin, A. (Ed.). İnsan, Hayvan ve Ötesi: Türkiye’de Hayvan Çalışmaları. Yayıma hazırlayan: Eda Çaça, Mehmet Ekinci. 1. Baskı, Eylül 2021, İstanbul: Kolektif Kitap.
4. Editor of 212 Photography Magazine, Issue #17: Positopia. Spring/Summer 2024, 212 Studio, Istanbul/London.
5. Editor of 212 Photography Magazine, Issue #16: Anxiety Antidote. Autumn/Winter 2023, 212 Studio, Istanbul/London.
6. Editor of 212 Photography Magazine, Issue #15: Solastalgia. Spring/Summer 2023, 212 Studio, Istanbul/London.
7. Editor of 212 Photography Magazine, Issue #14: Impersonatopia. Autumn/Winter 2022, 212 Studio, Istanbul/London.
8. Editor of 212 Photography Magazine, Issue #12: Earthlings. Autumn/Winter 2021, 212 Studio, Istanbul/London.
ONLINE TALKS and conversatIONS
1. Ekinci, M. ve Artvinli, F. “Taçlı Virüsün Tarihsel ve Toplumsal Okumaları.” Bilim, Teknoloji, Toplum Muhabbetleri kapsamında Giriş ve Takdim: Ebru Yetişkin, Kürasyon: Duygu Kaşdoğan ve Ebru Yetişkin, Akbank Sanat ve STS IstanbuLab, 18 Mayıs 2020.
2. Ekinci, M. ve Hiz, G. “Servet-i Fünûn’da Modernite Deneyimi Temsilleri ve Mekânın Sosyoteknik Tahayyülleri.” Kadir Has Üniversitesi Sanat, Tasarım ve Mimarlık Konuşmaları, 18 Mayıs 2022.
3. Ekinci, M., Tayman Eksin, S., Şensoy, B. Ö., ve Ertüzün, M. I. “Kara Aynadan Yansıyanlar: Suret’in 12. Sayısı Üzerine Bir Söyleşi.” PsikoAlan Söyleşileri, Moderatör: Sinan Tınar, 27 Şubat 2022.
4. Ekinci, M., Bilgin, A., Burgan, E., Çavuş, R., Niksarlı, A., Özdoğan, K., Özmen, C. Ö., ve Tatari, M. F. “İnsan, Hayvan ve Ötesi: Türkiye'de Hayvan Çalışmaları.” Kıraathane İstanbul Edebiyat Evi Üçüncü Kitap Şenliği, Çevrimiçi Kitap Söyleşisi, 1 Ekim 2021.
INTERVIEWS
1. Ekinci, M. “Arayüzdeki Diri Çizgiler: Ryoichi Kurokawa’nın Ağırbaşlı Medya Sanatı. Ryoichi Kurokawa ile Söyleşi.” Bant Mag, 5 Eylül 2022.
2. Ekinci, M. “DeviantArt’ın Altın Günlerinden Hipertüketici Algoritmalar Devrine: Bora Akıncıtürk ile Söyleşi.” Bant Mag, 11 Kasım 2021.
3. Ekinci, M. “Jeolojik Antropoloji Penceresinden STS: Zeynep Oğuz ile Söyleşi.” STS Istanbul, 16 Haziran 2021.
4. Ekinci, M. “Looking at STS through the Lens of Geological Anthropology: Interview with Zeynep Oğuz.” STS Istanbul, 20 March 2021.
5. Ekinci, M. “Material Manifestations of the Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey: Interview with Begüm Adalet.” STS Istanbul, 28 May 2019.
6. Ekinci, M. “Soğuk Savaş Türkiyesi'nde Modernleşme Teorisinin Maddesel Belirtileri: Begüm Adalet ile Söyleşi.” STS Istanbul, 28 Mayıs 2019.
7. Ekinci, M., Atılgan, Y., “Dünya İyiler ve Kötülerden Daha Karmaşık Bir Yer: Adam Curtis ile Söyleşi.” Bant Mag, 21 Haziran 2018.
8. Ekinci, M. “Sayborglar Hâlâ Hayatta ve Keyifleri Yerinde: Joe Dumit ile Söyleşi.” Bant Mag, 27 Eylül 2017.
9. Ekinci, M. “Yaşamı Neden Hep ‘Üreyebilme’ Üzerinden Tanımlayalım ki?: Svalbard Küresel Tohum Deposu üzerine Sophia Roosth ile Söyleşi.” Bant Mag, 17 Nisan 2017.
INVITED TALKS, CONFERENCES, AND WORKSHOPS
1. Ekinci, M. “Yapay Zeka Halet-i Ruhiyemize Nasıl Geliyor? Yapay Zeka ile Bilgi Üretiminin Boyutları.” 27. Araştırma Zirvesi, 6 Mayıs 2024.
2. Ekinci, M. “Yapay Zekâ Zamanlarında Bilgi Üretiminin Sosyolojik Boyutları: Hevesler ve Endişeler.” İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi, Sosyoloji Bölümü Semineri, 15 Aralık 2023
3. The Secrets of Entrepreneur Scientists Revealed (Not Really!): A Methodological Challenge.
North East Science and Technology Studies Conference. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, March 2018.
4. The Cost of Scientific Research: A Social Analysis. 11th Annual California Summer STS Retreat. UC Davis, CA, June 2017. Explaining Emergence: Futures of Causalities, Disease Outbreaks and Climate Change. American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Conference. Denver, CO, November 2015.
5. Pacemaking the Clinical Trials: The Nation-State's Role in Turkey's Pharmacopolitics.
Society of Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Conference. Denver, CO, November 2015.
6. Research on the Institutional History of Bioethics in Turkey. STS Summer School: Science and Governance at the Frontiers of Life. Kennedy School of Governance, Harvard University, July 2014.
7. Searching for the Cure in the Streets, Doing Politics in the Internet: New Forms of Patient
Activism in Turkey. Reproductive Health Working Group Annual Meeting, Tyr, Lebanon, July
2011.
8. Politics of Biosociality: A study of patient groups at the crossroads of political space in Turkey. Reproductive Health Working Group Annual Meeting, Ain El Sokhna, Egypt, July 2010.
CONTACT INFORMATION
mehmet6ekinci[at]gmail.com
Curriculum Vitae
Mehmet Ekinci is a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University, Science and Technology Studies Department. He is a lecturer at the Academic Writing Program, Koç University, Turkey. His research interests include the political economies of knowledge making in contemporary life sciences research labs, understanding the pervasive discourses on Artificial Intelligence in contemporary societies, and developing new teaching methods of critical thinking, reading and writing in academia. During his doctoral studies at Cornell University Ekinci taught First-year Writing Seminars on drugs and politics, histories of human subjects in experimental biomedicine, and futuristic strains of technoscience and capitalism. He received his Molecular Biology and Genetics (B.Sc.) undergraduate degree from Boğaziçi University and he studied Sociology (M.A.) at the same university before starting his Ph.D. at Cornell University, 2012.
EDUCATION
2017— Cornell University, Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies,
Ithaca, NY (Ph.D. degree expected in Summer 2025)
Dissertation: Economies and Technological Tools of Life Sciences Research:
A Social Analysis
Committee: Stephen Hilgartner (chair); Suman Seth; Bruce Lewenstein
Examination Fields: Economic Sociology of Science; Race, Gender and Political
Economy in the History of Science and Medicine; Public Communication
of Science.
2012—2017 Cornell University, MA in Science and Technology Studies,
Ithaca, NY
2010—2012 Boğaziçi University, M.A. Program in Sociology
(completed the coursework, got transferred to Cornell University)
2003—2008 Boğaziçi University, College of Arts and Sciences, B.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Genetics, Istanbul, Turkey. Extensive coursework in sociology and history.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Spring 2023 and onwards
Koç University
Course Instructor
ACWR 101: Basic Academic Writing
ACWR 106: Writing for Science and Technology
SOCI 312: Contemporary Social Theory
SOCI 405: Science, Technology and Society
SOCI 303: Classical Social Theory
SOCI 201: Scientific Methods in Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fall 2022
Işık University
Course Instructor
HUSS 1104: Science and Civilization
HUSS 3301: History of Science and Technology
HUSS 4301: Information Technology and Social Life
Fall 2021
Işık University
Course Instructor
INTO 1104: Bilim ve Uygarlık
HUSS 3301: History of Science and Technology
Summer 2020
Cornell University
Teaching Assistant
STS 1101: Science, Technology and Politics
Spring 2020
Cornell University
Teaching Assistant
STS 2011 What is Science?
(Writing in the Majors Course)
Summer 2019
Cornell University
Teaching Assistant
STS 1101: Science, Technology and Politics
Course Instructor
STS 1126 Writers of the Near Future Inc.,
A Training Module (First-Year Writing Seminar)
Fall 2019
Cornell University
Course Instructor
STS 1126 Writers of the Near Future Inc.,
A Training Module (First-Year Writing Seminar)
Spring 2019
Cornell University
Course Instructor: STS 1126 Writers of the Near Future Inc.,
A Training Module (First-Year Writing Seminar)
Fall 2018
Cornell University
Teaching Assistant
BSOC 2051 Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine
(Writing in the Majors Course)
Spring 2018
Cornell University
Teaching Assistant
BSOC 3111 Sociology of Medicine
Fall 2015
Cornell University
Course Instructor
STS 1126 Lives on Trial: Histories of
Experimental Biomedicine (First-Year Writing Seminar)
Spring 2014
Cornell University
Teaching Assistant
BSOC 2061 Environmental Ethics
Spring 2014
Cornell University
Grader
STS 3561 Computing Cultures
Fall 2014
Cornell University
Course Instructor
STS 1126 Science in Society: Drugs and
Politics (First-Year Writing Seminar)
Fall 2014
Cornell University
Grader
BSOC 2071 Introduction to the History of Medicine
Spring 2014
Cornell University
Teaching Assistant
BSOC 2051 Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine
(Writing in the Majors Course)
Fall 2013
Cornell University
Teaching Assistant
BSOC 3011 Life Sciences and Society
WORK & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2021—2022 Editor in Chief at Sensiz Olmaz Sessiz Olmaz Blog, Istanbul
- Commissioning articles and interviews to be published on the
digital publishing platform of the civil society initiative,
Sensiz Olmaz Sessiz Olmaz Blog
- Professional editorial work for the blog
(https://blog.sensizolmazsessizolmaz.org/)
2021 Project Report Researcher and Writer at PAR Research and Consultancy, Istanbul
- Developed and conducted qualitative research for the assessment report
commissioned by the Center for Private Enterprise (CIPE) on “Women’s Rights
in Corporate Compliance Programs in Turkey”
- Writing and data management of the CIPE assessment report
2019 Language Interpreter and Academic Consultant for the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Cochran Fellowship Program, Cornell University, NY
- Worked as a bilingual interpreter for the Turkish delegate visiting Cornell
University campus as USDA Cochran Fellowship Program fellows
- Facilitated workshops and training courses on agricultural biotechnologies
- Collaborated with the Cochran Fellowship Program organizers, academics and
industry regulators
2018 Research Assistant for Professor Stephen Hilgartner's ongoing research project
Project Title: “An Empirical Study of the Making and Re-Making of Knowledge About
Risk” Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- Assistance with the transcription of the interview sound recordings from
fieldwork
- Assistance with the evaluation of the fieldwork data
2010—2011 Research Assistant for Associate Professor Ayşecan Terzioğlu
Project Title: “Conceptions of Quality of Life among Turkish Breast Cancer Patients”
Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Assistance with the transcription of the interview sound recordings from
fieldwork
- Assistance with the evaluation of the fieldwork data
2009—2010 Project Assistant at Yesilist.com
Online platform for green and sustainable economy in Turkey
- Academic literature and market research for the website database
- Website editor, copywriter
2004—2006 Research Assistant at Professor Kuyaş Buğra's research laboratory
Project Title: “Research on the growth factor signal transduction in the mammalian
retina” Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Basic molecular biology techniques such as PCR, Western Blot, electrophoresis
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2018—2019 Dissertation Writing Group Grant, Society for the Humanities,
Cornell University
2016—2017 Sage Fellowship, Cornell University Graduate School
2014—2015 Graduate Reading Group Grant, The Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University
2014 Abraham Zito Boczkowski Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate
Student, Cornell University
2012—2013 Sage Fellowship, Cornell University Graduate School