Prof. Dr. Josh Carney

Leiter, Universitätsprofessor

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+49 6421 28-24910 josh.carney@ 1 Deutschhausstraße 12
35032 Marburg
F|14 Institutsgebäude (Raum: 02A24)

  • Curriculum Vitae


    Education
    2015 PhD Communication and Culture with minor in Cultural Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
    2015 MA Central Eurasian Studies (Turkish Studies), Indiana University
    2006-2007 PhD coursework, Communication, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
    2003 MFA Creative Writing (Nonfiction), University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
    2001 MA English, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Walla Washington
    1997 BA Biology, English minor, Cum Laude, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington
             

    Academic Employment   
    2024 - present Philipps University of Marburg, Media Studies (FB09) and Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS), Marburg, Germany
    Professor of Transcultural Media Studies of the Middle East
    2023-2024 Istanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Communication, Istanbul, Türkiye Visiting Scholar
    2017 - 2023 American University of Beirut, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Media Studies, Beirut, Lebanon
    Assistand Professor, Media Studies
    2015 - 2017 University of South Florida, Department of Communication, Tampa, Florida Postdoctoral Scholar
    2014 - 2015 Kadir Has University, Istanbul Studies Center, Istanbul, Turkey Doctoral Fellow
    2007 - 2015 Indiana University, Department of Communication and Culture, Bloomington, Indiana Associate Instructor
    2003 - 2006 Middle East Technical University, Department of Basic English, Ankara, Turkey Lecturer and Materials Designer / Öğretim Görevlisi  
    2001 - 2003 University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona Composition Instructor / Graduate Teaching Assistant
    1999 - 2001 Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington Composition Instructor / Teaching Assistant
    1997 - 1998 Chancellor College / Mulanje Mountain Conservation Trust, Malawi Principal Investigator, Phalombe Ethnobotanical Survey

  • Publications

    Academic Publications

    2024 “Extreme dizi-ness: stretching the bounds of genre in (New?) Turkish television.” In Jump in Cut, 62
    2023 “ResurReaction: competing versions of Turkey’s (proto)Ottoman past in Magnificent Century and Resurrection Ertuğrul.” In Middle Eastern Television Drama, Routledge, 6- 25.
    2022 “Democra-Z: Election ads, a failed coup, and zombie politics in ‘New Turkey’.” In P. Hecker, I. Furman, and K. Akyıldız eds. The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey, Edinburgh University Press, 91-110.
    2019 “ResurReaction: competing versions of Turkey’s (proto)Ottoman past in Magnificent Century and Resurrection Ertuğrul.” In Middle East Critique, 28/2, 101-120.
    2019 “Projecting ‘New Turkey’ deflecting the coup: squares, screens, and publics at Turkey’s ‘Democracy Watches.” In Media, Culture & Society, 41/1, 138-148.
    2018 “Genre strikes back: conspiracy theory, post-truth politics, and the Turkish crime drama Valley of the Wolves.” In TV/Series.
    2018 “Resur(e)recting a spectacular hero: Diriliş Ertuğrul, necropolitics, and popular culture inTurkey.” In Review of Middle East Studies, 52/1.
    2017 (co-author Valentina Marcella) “Screens of satire and commons of resistance: the place and role of humor in the Gezi Park protests of Turkey.” In Ridiculosa, 24, 151-164.
    2016 “Regarding North: Bakur and the crystallization of cinematic censorship in Turkey.” In S. Koçer and C. Candan eds. Kurdish Documentary Cinema in Turkey: The Politics and Aesthetics of Identity and Resistance. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 140-164.
    2015 “Shifting the community press: a brief examination of Gülen-affiliated papers Zaman and Today’s Zaman,” in Lea Nocera ed. The Gülen Media Empire, Arab Media Report N. 8 – September, 77-91; translated in Italian as “Il cambio di rotta. Breve analisi dei due giornali affiliati a Gülen: Zaman e Today’s Zaman,” in Lea Nocera ed. L’impero mediatico di Gülen, Arab Media Report N.7 – September, 79-94.
    2014 “Re-creating history and recreating publics: the success and failure of recent Ottoman costume dramas in Turkish media.” In European Journal of Turkish Studies, 19.
    2014 “Of babies and burlap bags: key moments and the making of the US image in Turkey.” In K. Kanat, A.S. Tekelioğlu, K. Üstün eds. Change and adaptation in Turkish foreign policy. SETA Foundation, Washington DC, 85-120.
    2014 “The PM and the Sultan: Sacred history and expression collide in Turkey.” (Book version) in The Turkish touch: neo-Ottoman hegemony and Turkish television in the Middle East, Arab Media Report N. 4 – October, 29-31; translated in Italian as (2013) “Il premier e il sultano: il conflitto turco tra storia sacra e libertà di espressione,” in The Turkish touch: Egemonia neo-ottomana e televisione turca in Medio Oriente, Arab Media Report N. 1 – Dicembre, 33-36.
    2014 “Silver and light: Turkish drama shines brighter abroad,” in The Turkish touch: neo- Ottoman hegemony and Turkish 
    television in the Middle East, Arab Media Report N. 4 – October, 33-36; translated in Italian as (2013) “Luce e argento: lo sceneggiato turco splende all’estro,” in The Turkish touch: Egemonia neo-ottomana e televisione turca in Medio Oriente, Arab Media Report N. 1 – Dicembre, 37-40.
    2014 “Reality (TV) in wolve’s clothing? Valley of the Wolves,” in The Turkish touch: neo- Ottoman hegemony and Turkish television in the Middle East, Arab Media Report N. 4 – October, 37-42; translated in Italian as (2013) “Realismo (tv) travestito da fiction? La valle dei lupi,” in The Turkish touch: Egemonia neo-ottomana e televisione turca in Medio Oriente, Arab Media Report  N. 1 – Dicembre, 41-46.
    2008 “Distilling ideologies: opinion page strategies for explaining the Turkish elections to foreigners.” Proceedings of 6th International Symposium on Communication in the Millennium, 63-88.
    2002 “Writing As Social Witness: September 11th, 2001.” In B. Alvarado, B. Cully, and M. Robinson, eds. Writing as revision. 2nd Ed. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing.

    Book Reviews

    2016 Review of Joshua Hendrick, Gülen: the ambiguous politics of market Islam in Turkey and the world, 2013. Media Screen Turkey, http://wp.me/p5GLo7-51.
    2014 Review of Daniella Kuzmanovic, Refractions of civil society in Turkey, 2012. Arab Studies Journal, 22:1, 294-298. 
    2013 Review of Behlül Özkan, From the abode of Islam to the Turkish Vatan: the making of a national homeland in Turkey, 2012. Journal of American Studies of Turkey, 38, 125-128.
    2010 Review of Rifat N. Bali, The saga of a friendship: Asa Kent Jennings and the American Friends of Turkey, Libra Kitap, 2009. Journal of American Studies of Turkey, 32, 93-96.


    Journalism

    2016 "Turkey's TV Business Booming Despite Domestic Woes.” Variety, 4 April
    2016 "Historical Hits Resurrecting Turkey's TRT." Variety, 4 April.
    2015 “Tensions between Turkey’s film festivals, government take toll.” Variety, 22 October.
    2015 “Mipcom: Turkey’s ‘Magnificent Century: Kosem’ set to sell at TV mart.” Variety, 30 September.
    2015 “Turkey: ‘North’ ban sparks more protests.” Variety, 22 April.
    2014 “Sending the Sultan Global.” Arab Media Report (online), 18 June (also in Italian translation).
    2014 “Nymphomaniac latest pawn in Turkey’s battle over censorship.” Variety, 21 March.
    2014 “Twitter banned by Turkish government.” Variety, 21 March.
    2014 “A new distribution model gives Turkey’s film fans their fill of foreign fare.” Variety, 21 January.
    2013 “Pioneer spirit: Turkeys Kanal D turns 20 in volatile market mastered by topper Irfan Şahin.” Variety, 17 December.
    2013 “Pandora’s Screen? Turkish Programming in the Arab World.” Arab Media Report (online), March, (also in Italian translation).
    2013 “The PM and the Sultan: sacred history and expression collide in Turkey.” Arab Media Report, February (online), (also in Italian translation).
    2013 “Pinema Filmcilik: biz built on relationships,” “Boyut film tie is built to last,” and “Two decades of growth.” Variety, 11 February.
    2012 “Gallipoli pics do battle in Turkey.” Variety, 22 September.
    2012 “Censors boost Turkish cop’s profile.” Variety, 23 June.

  • Invited Engangements

    2024 Invited Lecture (in person), “Palimpsestuous screen: mediating the conquest of Istanbul in the post-truth era,” at Mainz University, Turkish Studies Lecture Series, 16 May. 
    2024 Invited Lecture (in person), “Extreme dizi-ness: stretching the bounds of genre in (New?) Turkish television,” at Bilgi University Faculty Research Seminar, 13 March. 
    2024 Invited Speaker (in person), “Palimpsestuous screen: mediating the conquest of Istanbul in the post-truth era,” at Legacies of Conquest: Interconnections and Memories of the Ottoman and Spanish Empires, Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz University, 26 January.
    2024 Invited Lecture (in person), “Extreme dizi-ness: stretching the bounds of genre in (New?) Turkish television,” at Kadir Has University Faculty Research Seminar, 20 December. 
    2023 Invited Lecture (online), “Extreme dizi-ness: stretching the bounds of genre in (New?) Turkish television,” at Global Politics and Practice Research Group; Central European University, 27 January. 
    2022 Invited Lecture (in person), “Extreme dizi-ness: stretching the bounds of genre in Turkish TV series,” at Department of Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean; University of Naples, L’Orientale, 24 October. 
    2022 Invited Educator (in person and online) delivering workshop on the use of cell phones for creation of short documentary videos to promote sustainable trade and tourism related to shepherding. Under auspices of WOOL - Wool as Outstanding Opportunity for Leverage ADRION Project, Polo Tecnologico Alto Adriatico Andrea Galvani of Pordenone with the collaboration of the Chamber of Commerce of Basilicata, Matera, Italy, 21 October. 
    2022 Invited Speaker (in person and online) presenting overview of The Sheep From The Future documentary film project on panel titled “Best practices and cases of valorisation of the tourist and cultural heritage from the world and from the Adriatic-Ionian areas” at Sustainable Tourism & Emerging Destinations in the Adriatic-Ionian Areas, ADRION project “WOOL – Wool as Outstanding Opportunity for Leverage,” Matera, Italy, 20 October. 
    2022 Invited Moderator (in person and online), “Research and Journalism in Exile” at ZEIT-Stiftung Reunion, Free to Think: Challenges for Academia and Journalism, Central European University, Vienna, Austria, 10 September. 
    2022 Keynote Lecture (online), “The middle of what?: Dis-orienting visions and re-sieved wisdom in Turkish ‘historical’ TV drama” at The Middle Ages as Digital Experience conference, Central European University, 21-23 April. 
    2021 Keynote Lecture (in person and online), “Extreme dizi-ness: stretching the bounds of genre in (New?) Turkish television,” at international workshop, The Turks are coming! The popular outreach of Turkish TV series, hosted by the Lorentz Center, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, and Leiden University, 5-10 December. 
    2021 Invited Speaker and Educator (online) at Carthage Seminars: Pluralism in Arab and Muslim Societies, delivering talk on “Diriliş Ertuğrul, necropolitics, and popular culture in Turkey” and lesson on “Gender, politics, and Ottoman Nostalgia in Magnificent Century,” 28 June – 2 July, hosted online by Reset Dialogues on Civilizations. 
    2021 Invited Speaker (online) presenting overview of The Sheep From The Future documentary film project on panel titled “Capitalization of international projects of interest for the thematic cluster ADRION” at Creative Days: Economic development through culture in the Friuli Venezia Giulia system, Polo Tecnologico Alto Adrioatico, 30 November. 
    2020 Invited Lecture (shifted to online), “Restorative, reactive, nostalgia and necropolitics in Turkish television drama,” conference on Narrative Identities Between Fiction, Reality, and Social Media, at Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bologna, 14 December. 
    2020 Invited Speaker (shifted to online), “A second life for Resurrection: debates and devoutness among a transnational Facebook group for Diriliş Ertuğrul.” At Research Workshop on The Global Politics and Poetics of Turkish Television, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 7-8 May. 
    2020 Invited Lecture (shifted to online), “Necropolitics in Turkey.” At Bilgi University Domino Lecture Series, Istanbul, 14 April.
    2018 Invited Speaker (in person), “Resur(e)recting a spectacular hero: Diriliş Ertuğrul, necropolitics, and popular culture in Turkey.” Faculty of Arts and Sciences Research Lunch talk, American University of Beirut, 7 September.
    2018 Invited Speaker (in person), “Gösterişli bir kahramanı diriltmek: Türkiye’de popüler kültür, nekropolitika ve Diriliş Ertuğrul.” Panel titled Politicization of television in Turkey: revisiting the past, constructing the present, at Blickweschel Contemporary Turkish Studies Program, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, 25 April. 
    2017 Invited Speaker (in person), “Theaters of inhibition and cinemas of strategy: film festivals and the sites of struggle over censorship in Turkey.” Workshop on Anthropology of Media in Turkey at Kadir Has University, Istanbul, 8-10 September. 
    2017 Invited Speaker (in person), “Resurrection as reaction: competing visions of Turkey’s (proto) Ottoman past in Magnificent Century and Resurrection Ertuğrul.” Conference on History and society on TV in the Middle East at University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 6 April. 
    2017 Invited Lecture (in person), “The harem, Hürrem, and the ‘truth’: restorative nostalgia and the veiling of a magnificent heroine.” Department of Communication Spring Colloquium at University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 3 February. 
    2015 Invited Lecture (in person), “Censor-seep: cinema, ‘sansür,’ and strategy at film festivals in Turkey (2014 – 2015).” Graduate proseminar at the Department of Communication, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 2 November. 
    2011 Invited Lecture (in person), “The Valley in Turkish-Israeli relations.” Interdisciplinary Images Forum, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 25 February.
    2008 Invited Lecture (in person), “Eydeological jeans: capitalizing on the Turkish headscarf debate?” Virginia Gunderson speaker for the Department of Communication and Culture’s fall colloquium series at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 12 September.

  • Research Grants

    2023-2024 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship: “TV Costume Dramas and the Consumption of History in Turkey and Beyond” to perform follow-up research and complete a monograph. 
    2019-2021 WEFRAH research grant: “The sheep from the future? Steps to a new coupling of pastoralism, ecosystems and consumers in an age of environmental degradation”; Co-principal investigator (for documentary film production) on project directed by Principal Investigator Sylvain Perdigon, American University of Beirut. 
    2015-2017  University of South Florida Social Sciences and Humanities Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship – supporting research on popular media and censorship in Turkey through the department of Communication.
    2015  Sansürsüz Sinema (Uncensored Cinema) research grant – supporting research on censorship in Turkey through an ethnographic investigation of Istanbul film festivals.
    2013-2014 Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship – supporting the writing of my dissertation on the circulation of popular Turkish media texts. 
    2011-2012  Mellon-IIE Grant for Dissertation Research (replacement for Fulbright Hays canceled due to budget cuts) – supporting ethnographic research related to the above project. 
    2011-2012    Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant – also supporting ethnographic research related to the above project.
    2009 Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS) Summer Research Fellowship – supported interview-based research on the writing, marketing, and selling of the Turkish bestselling book Metal Fırtına (Metal Storm).
    2009     Indiana University Pre-Dissertation Research Grant – supported the same research project as detailed above, allowing me to spend the entire summer in Istanbul on the project. 
    1997-1998  Fulbright Scholarship: Traditional Herbal Healing in Malawi – supported ethnobotanical research on traditional healers, their plant remedies, and the effects of deforestation on their practice.

  • Academic Service

    Administration:

    2024-present Direktorium Member, Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Marburg University 
    2024-present Direktorium Member, Institute of Media Studies, Marburg University
    2021-2022 Acting Director, Media Studies Program, American University of Beirut 

    Advising:
    PhD Dissertations Co-Supervised:
    Zeynep Aydin, “Im/mediately unified: analyzing online reactions of the European public to jihadist terror attacks”; Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Marburg University; defended 2024. 

    Nilgün Yelpaze, “Narratives of justice in Kurdish documentary films”; Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Marburg University; in process. 

    MA Theses Advised:
    Jana Al Malwed, “A mediated past of a displaced nation: The Palestinian Expatriation as prosthetic memory for third-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon”; Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies, AUB; defended 2020. 

    Tahani Nassar, “Palestinian oral history: mediated memories across generations”; Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies, AUB; defended 2020. 

    Maryam Srour, “Women in protest iconography across the SWANA region”; Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies, AUB; defended 2023.

    Committee Member:
    10 MA thesis committees in Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies, AUB: Ali Bdeir, Zainab Chamoun, Maya El Dib, Rolande El Ghusayni, Nada Homsi, Reem Joudi, Elio Kassab, Susan Kemanzi, Danah Kaouri, Manar Shourbaji (2018 – 2023). 

    Undergraduate Advisor:
    Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies, AUB: fall 2018 - 38 students; spring 2019 - 36 students; fall 2019 - 64 students.  

    Committees:

    2023 Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA) Article Prize Committee 
    2019-2022 Graduate Studies Committee, American University of Beirut 
    2019-2022 Board of Graduate Studies, American University of Beirut 
    2017-2019 Hiring Committee for 3 faculty positions in Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies; American University of Beirut 

    Organizing:
    Organizing Committee Member, Media Infrastructures in the Middle East conference, American University of Beirut, January 2020.

    AUB Campus Liaison for Beirut Art Film Festival, organized 12 screenings of 17 films, December 2019.

    Organized AUB visit (public talk, class visit, reading group, activist forum) of University Research Board scholar Nicholas Mirzoeff, October 2019 (talk cancelled due to Lebanese protests). 

    Organized AUB visit (public talk, class visit, and film screening) of University Research Board scholar Zeynep Gürsel, April 2019. 

    Organized AUB visit (public talk, graduate student meeting) of visiting scholar Suncem Koçer, April 2018.

    Scientific Committee Member, International Media and Nostalgia Network conference, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden, November 2018.

    Peer Review:
    Journals: Connectist; Critical Studies in Media Communication; Cultural Anthropology; Culture, Theory and Critique; Emotions: History, Culture, Society; International Communication Gazette; International Journal of Middle East Studies; Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies; Journal of Turkish Studies; Middle East Critique; Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication; New Perspectives on Turkey; Politics, Religion and Ideology.

    Book manuscript: Ubiquity Press (2019). 

    Grants: VolkswagenStiftung (2024); Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, 2024). 

    Nonfiction Editor, Bellingham Review – reading, judging, and editing submissions to literary journal; training readers; organizing annual Annie Dillard contest for creative nonfiction (2000 – 2001).

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