Associate Professor of History
Hakki Gurkas is an Associate Professor of History at Kennesaw State University, Georgia. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University, Indiana. His research focuses on Nasreddin Hodja tradition and the history of Aksehir Festival in Turkey, secularization, folk Islam, festive culture, and nation-formation in the Middle Eastern and Central Asia.
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About Hakki Gurkas
Hakki Gurkas is an Associate Professor of History at Kennesaw State University, Georgia. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University, Indiana. His research focuses on Nasreddin Hodja tradition and the history of Aksehir Festival in Turkey, secularization, folk Islam, festive culture, and nation-formation in the Middle Eastern and Central Asia.
| Present | Associate Professor of History, Kennesaw State University ‐ Department of History and Philosophy | |
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Disciplines
Courses
- HIST 4497, Research Seminar in non-Western History
- HIST 4490, Women and Islam (team taught with Dr. Catherine Lewis)
- HIST 4490, Modern Turkey
- HIST 4490, Islam in World History
- HIST 3382, North Africa & Middle East
- HIST 3379, Central Asia in World History
- HIST 2270, Introduction to Themes in History
- HIST 1112, Modern World History
- HIST 1110, Introduction World History
- HIST 1100, Introduction to World History