MARY LOUISE ŞİMŞEK

Professor MARY LOUISE ŞİMŞEK

A BLOK 1. KAT 245

+90 (212) 5336532 - 1339-4928

mloneil@khas.edu.tr

ORCID

Education

Master's Degree

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
Kadın Çalışmaları

Doctorate

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Amerikan Çalışmaları

Master's Degree

UNİV. OF WYOMİNG
Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyatı

Bachelor's Degree

THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE
Beşeri Bilimler

Research Areas

  • Toplumsal Cinsiyet
  • Kadın Çalışmaları
  • Üreme Hakları

Work Experience

2003 / Continuing Proseför, Doçent, Yard. Doç. Dr.
Kadir Has Üniversitesi

Publications

  • O’Neil, Mary Lou; Ramaswamy, Amrutha; Altuntaş, Deniz (2024), "Population politics, reproductive governance and access to abortion in Turkey", Culture, Health and Sexuality, DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2317734
  • O'Neil, Mary Lou (2023), "Gender Equality Plans at Universities in Turkey", About Gender: International Journal of Gender Studies, Vol.12, No.24, 1-29 DOI: https://doi.org/10.15167/2279-5057/AG2023.12.24.2272
  • O'Neil, Mary Lou; Aldanmaz, Bahar; Altuntaş, Deniz (2022), "The availability of emergency contraception from family health centers in Turkey", Health Policy, Vol.126, No.7, 715-721 DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.04.006
  • O'Neil, Mary Louıse; Aldanmaz-Fidan, Bahar (2021), "Identity and the Availability of Emergency Contraception from Pharmacies in Istanbul. ", Kadın/Woman 2000, Vol.21, No.2, 35-45 DOI: https://doi.org/10.33831/jws.v22i2.318
  • O’Neil, Mary Lou; Komut, Sultan (2019), "Motherhood, Citizenship, and Rights: Illegal Abortions in Turkey", Women's Studies, Vol.48, No.2, 81-96 DOI: 10.1080/00497878.2019.1567513
  • O’Neil, Mary Lou; Toktas, Sule (2017), "Women’s access to property: A comparative study on Islamic and Kemalist women in Turkey", Journal of Historical Sociology, Vol.30, No.3, 674-696 DOI: 10.1111/johs.12154
  • Selen, Eser; O’Neil, Mary Lou (2017), "‘I am here’: women workers’ experiences at the former Cibali Tekel Tobacco and Cigarette Factory in Istanbul", Gender, Place and Culture, Vol.24, No.8, 1165-1184 DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2017.1372389
  • O’Neil, Mary Lou (2017), "Abortion services at hospitals in Istanbul", European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care, Vol.22, No.2, 88-93 DOI: 10.1080/13625187.2016.1276163
  • O'Neil, Mary Lou (2017), "The availability of abortion at state hospitals in Turkey: A national study", Contraception, Vol.95, No.2, 148-153 DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2016.09.009
  • MacFarlane, Katrina A.; O'Neil, Mary Lou; Tekdemir, Deniz; Foster, Angel M. (2017), "“It was as if society didn't want a woman to get an abortion”: a qualitative study in Istanbul, Turkey", Contraception, Vol.95, No.2, 154-160 DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2016.07.190
  • MacFarlane, Katrina A.; O'Neil, Mary Lou; Tekdemir, Deniz; Çetin, Elvin; Bilgen, Barış; Foster, Angel M. (2016), "Politics, policies, pronatalism, and practice: availability and accessibility of abortion and reproductive health services in Turkey", Reproductive Health Matters, Vol.24, No.48, 62-70 DOI: 10.1016/j.rhm.2016.11.002
  • Ucal, Meltem; O’neil, Mary Lou; Toktas, Sule (2015), "Gender and the wage gap in Turkish academia", Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Vol.17, No.4, 447-464 DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1063309
  • Toktas, Sule; O'Neil, Mary Lou (2015), "Competing frameworks of Islamic law and secular civil law in Turkey: A case study on women's property and inheritance practices", Women's Studies International Forum, Vol.48, 29-38 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2014.10.011
  • O'Neil, Mary Lou; Toktas, Sule (2014), "Women's Property Rights in Turkey", Turkish Studies, Vol.15, No.1, 29-44 DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2014.891350
  • O'Neil, Mary Lou (2013), "Selfish, vengeful, and full of spite: The representations of women who have abortions on Turkish television", Feminist Media Studies, Vol.13, No.5, 810-818 DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2013.838360
  • O'Neil, Mary Lou; Bilgin, Mehmet Huseyin (2013), "Religion as a factor influencing turkish women's decisions to work", Journal of International Women's Studies, Vol.14, No.3, 163-173
  • Toktas, Sule; O’neil, Mary Lou (2013), "How do women receive inheritance? The processes of Turkish women’s inclusion and exclusion from property", Asian Women, Vol.29, No.4, 25-50 DOI: 10.14431/aw.2013.12.29.4.25
  • Özcan, Oguzhan; O'Neil, Mary Lou (2013), "Invisible navigation (or impossible?)", Leonardo, Vol.46, No.1, 90-91 DOI: 10.1162/LEON_a_00496
  • O'Neil, Mary Lou; Güler, Fazil (2010), "Strangers to and producers of their own culture: American popular culture and Turkish young people", Comparative American Studies, Vol.8, No.3, 230-243 DOI: 10.1179/147757010X12773889525821
  • O'Neil, Mary Lou (2010), "You are what you wear: Clothing/ appearance laws and the construction of the public citizen in Turkey", Fashion Theory - Journal of Dress Body and Culture, Vol.14, No.1, 65-82 DOI: 10.2752/175174110X12544983515231
  • Özcan, Oguzhan; Akdemir, Emre; O'Neil, Mary Lou; Ayça Ünlüer, A. (2009), "Prayer bead gestures and television: A case study on cultural inspirations for interaction art education", Leonardo, Vol.42, No.5, 428-432 DOI: 10.1162/leon.2009.42.5.428
  • Özcan, Oǧuzhan; Yantaç, Asim Evren; O'Neil, Mary Lou (2009), "Breaking the rules in interactive media design education", Digital Creativity, Vol.20, No.1-2, 115-124 DOI: 10.1080/14626260902868129
  • O'Neil, Mary L. (2008), "Human resource leadership: The key to improved results in health", Human Resources for Health, Vol.6, DOI: 10.1186/1478-4491-6-10
  • O'Neil, Mary L.; Paydos, Michael (2008), "Improving retention and performance in civil society in Uganda", Human Resources for Health, Vol.6, DOI: 10.1186/1478-4491-6-11
  • O'Neil, Mary Lou (2008), "Headscarves and the contestation of public space in Turkey", European Journal of Women's Studies, Vol.15, No.2, 101-115 DOI: 10.1177/1350506807088069

Projects

Project Name Role in the Project Project Type Fund Establishment Project Date
BUDGET IT - Building Gender Equality through gender budgeting for Institutional Transformation Yürütücü Uluslararası Proje HORIZON Europe 01.01.2023
31.12.2026
INSPIRE- European Centre of Excellence on Inclusive Gender Equality in Research & Innovation: Creating Knowledge & Engaging in Collaborative Action Yürütücü Uluslararası Proje HORIZON Europe 01.12.2023
31.12.2025
BUDGET-IT (Building Gender Equality Through Gender Budgeting for Institutional Transformation) Koordinatör Uluslararası Projes Horizon Europe 31.12.2022
31.08.2024
Gender- Responsive Learning Environment through Gender- Sensitive Educators Araştırmacı Uluslararası Proje Erasmus+ 31.08.2022
31.01.2024
GenderEX: Gender for Excellence in Research Yürütücü Uluslararası Proje HORIZON 2020 01.01.2021
31.12.2023
COVID-19 salgın sürecinde öznel esenligi koruyucu bireysel, ailesel ve sosyal faktörlerin incelenmesi Araştırmacı Ulusal Proje TÜBİTAK ARDEB 01.07.2020
31.12.2020
710534 Systemic Action for Gender Equality (SAGE)/Toplumsal Cinsiyet Eşitliği için Sistemik Eylem Yürütücü Uluslararası Proje HORIZON 2020 01.09.2016
31.08.2019
Systemic Action for Gender Equality (SAGE) Proje Yöneticiliği/Yürütücülüğü Dış Kaynaklı EC Horizon 2020 01.05.2016
01.05.2019

Courses Offered

Course Name Course Code Period
Gender and Politics POL353 2023/24 Fall
Research Methods and Ethics in Gender Studies GEN601 2023/24 Fall