Collective Memory and National Membership

This study seeks to explain the impact of historical narratives on the inclusiveness and pluralism of citizenship models. Drawing on comparative historical analysis of two post-imperial core countries, Turkey and Austria, it explores how narrative forms operate to support or constrain citizenship models.

Meral Ugur Cinar received her PhD in Political Science from University of Pennsylvania in May 2012. She was a Mellon Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow at the New School for Social Research in 2012-13. Her articles are published in PS: Political Science and Politics, Political Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and Turkish Studies as well as in book chapters. She also co-authored an article with Kursat Cinar that has won the 2013 Sabanc? International Research Award. She is currently Assistant Professor at Bilkent University, Turkey.