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EMEL DOGRAMACI
Country: Turkey
Profession: Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor Emel Dogramaci is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Director of the Centre for Research
on Gender Studies of Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey.
Having completed her primary and secondary school education in Kerkuk, Iraq, Professor Dogramaci completed her higher education
and Ph.D. studies at Oxford and Edinburgh Universities, United Kingdom.
She received her Associate Professorship in 1967, and Professorship in 1973 at Hacettepe University, Ankara, and was twice
elected the Dean of the Faculty of Social and Administrative Sciences. Professor Dogramaci was a Fulbright Visiting Professor
at Pennsylvania University in 1982. The same year she became the Dean of the Faculty of Letters at Hacettepe University.
During the 19 years of Deanship Professor Dogramaci founded several departments within the faculty and developed the curricula
of these departments. She also supervised over 30 M.A and Ph.D. theses. In September 1994, Professor Dogramaci went to
Stanford University, California, as a visiting professor. After her return late in 1995 she received a teaching post at the
Eastern Mediterranean University, in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and stayed there from September 1995 to February
1998.
Professor Dogramaci has represented Turkey at various international conferences organized by the United Nations such as “Woman’s
Year” in 1975, in Mexico, and “Woman’s Last Decade” in 1985 in Nairobi, Kenya. In 1988 she was appointed by the Turkish
Foreign Ministry as Head of the Turkish Delegation to the United Nations “Commission on Status of Women” for four years.
Between the years 1991 and 1994 she was the Vice-President of the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO and was the
chairperson of the Committee on “Women and Youth”. Professor Dogramaci has traveled widely in the Americas, Europe, Asia and
Africa giving conferences and chairing sessions in international conferences.
She organized quite a few international conferences in Turkey on “Ottoman and Turkish Social History”, “Turkish-Arab Relations”
and initiated the first “All-Turkey English Literature Conference”. She also was the founder of the several graduate programs
at Hacettepe, including British Cultural Studies in 1999. She also founded the first “School of Woman’s Studies” at Hacettepe
within the Community of Mediterranean Universities and hosted two International Conferences on Woman. She is a member of
various national and international N.G.O.’s.
Professor Dogramaci who has been conferred upon decorations of honour and awards by foreign states as well as private
establishments, has seven books and over one hundred articles, published in Arabic, English and Turkish. She is mother of two
sons.
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