Curriculum Vitae

• 2020–2021Postdoctoral Research: “Re-formation of Arab and Middle Eastern Identities through Music in New York,” Music Department, City University of New York, January 2020–January 2021.
• 2015Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology, Istanbul Technical University, Centre for Advanced Studies in Music, Istanbul (March 2015): “Music in Transit: Musical Practices of the Chaldean-Iraqi Migrants in Istanbul.” Advisors: Prof. Şehvar Beşiroğlu and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Robert Reigle.
• 2007M.A. in Musicology, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul (2007): “Bakışsız Bir Kedi Kara, Kareler ve Şenlikname Adlı Yapıtları Bağlamında İlhan Usmanbaş’ın Müzik Dilinin Çağdaş Türk Şiiri ile İlişkisi” [The Relation between Contemporary Turkish Music and Poetry in the Works of İlhan Usmanbaş]. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Mehmet Nemutlu.
• 2004B.A. in Musicology, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory, Istanbul (2004).
• 1991–1999State Conservatory, Violin, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul (1991–1999).

• 2025–presentProfessor, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
• 2025–presentReview Editor, Music and Minorities Journal
• 2024–presentCoordinator, Artistic Board, Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall, Istanbul
• 2018–presentChair, Ethnomusicology Program, MSGSU
• 2018–2025Associate Professor, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
• 2020–2021Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, City University of New York
• 2017–2018Assistant Professor, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
• 2012–2013Visiting Doctoral Scholar, City University of New York
• 2007–2017Research Assistant, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
• 2005–2007Teaching Assistant, Sabancı University, Istanbul
• 1999–2004Violinist, Cemal Reşit Rey Symphony Orchestra, Istanbul

Edited Books and Special Issues

• 2024Özdemir, Ulaş, Belma Oğul and Evrim Hikmet Öğüt (Eds.) (2024). Ruhi Su ve Türkiye’de Müzik Kültürleri [Ruhi Su and Music Cultures in Turkey]. İstanbul: Aras Yayıncılık.
• 2023Fırat, Begüm Özden, Ceren Lordoğlu and Evrim Hikmet Öğüt (Eds.) (2023). “Sesli Düşünmek” [Thinking Aloud], special issue, Cogito, no. 109. İstanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları.
• 2022Özdemir, Ulaş, Mehtap Demir and Evrim Hikmet Öğüt (Eds.) (2022). Etnomüzikoloji: Kültürler ve Müzikler [Ethnomusicology: Cultures and Musics]. İstanbul: İthaki Yayınları.
• 2018Fırat, Begüm Özden, Evrim Hikmet Öğüt and Ceren Lordoğlu (Eds.) (2018). “Sesli Düşünmek” [Thinking Aloud], special issue, MSGSÜ Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi [MSFAU Journal of Social Sciences], 2(17). İstanbul: Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi.

Books and Book Chapters

• 2024Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2024). “Sounds of Transit Migration: Chaldean-Iraqi Migrant Music in Istanbul,” in G. Heck et al. (Eds.), Making Routes: Mobility and Politics of Migration in the Global South. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press.
• 2024Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2024). “İfade, Temas, Strateji: Suriyeli Müzisyenlerin Sokak Müzisyenliği Deneyimi” [Expression, Contact, Strategy: The Busking Experience of Syrian Musicians], in E. Ş. Özgün (Ed.), Etnomüzikoloji Tartışmaları: Alan Yöntem Kuram [Ethnomusicology Debates: Field, Method, Theory]. İstanbul: İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Yayınları.
• 2022Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2022). “Etnomüzikolojik Göç Çalışmaları” [Ethnomusicological Migration Studies], in U. Özdemir, M. Demir and E. H. Öğüt (Eds.), Etnomüzikoloji: Kültürler ve Müzikler [Ethnomusicology: Cultures and Musics]. İstanbul: Ithaki.
• 2019Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2019). “Etnomüzikoloji Literatüründe Geçici Göç Çalışmaları” [Transit Migration in Ethnomusicology], in N. S. Turan and Ş. Ersoy (Eds.), Şehvar Beşiroğlu’ya Armağan [A Festschrift for Şehvar Beşiroğlu]. İstanbul: Pan Yayınları.
• 2018Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2018). “Cultural Production as a Political Act: Two Feminist Songs from Istanbul,” in Aileen Dillane et al. (Eds.), Songs of Social Protest: International Perspectives. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.
• 2015Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2015). “Sanat: Sanatın Üretimi ve Tüketimi” [Art: Production and Consumption of Art], in E. Gökalp (Ed.), Kültür Sosyolojisi [Sociology of Culture]. Erzurum: Erzurum Üniversitesi Yayınları.
• 2011Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2011). “Sanatın Üretimi” [Production of Art], in A. Ergur (Ed.), Kültür Sosyolojisi [Sociology of Culture]. Eskişehir: Anadolu Üniversitesi Yayınları.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• 2024Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2024). “Rauf Yekta’s Notes on the 1932 Congress of Arab Music: Being a Mediator in a Dual Musical Universe,” The World of Music (New Series), 13(1): 1–33.
• 2021Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2021). “The Short History of Syrian Street Music in Istanbul,” Music and Minorities, 1.
• 2021Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2021). “Music, Migration, and Public Space: Syrian Street Music in the Political Context,” Arts, 10(4): 71.
• 2016Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2016). “Geçici Göçün Sesleri: İstanbul’daki Keldani-Iraklı Göçmenlerin Müzik Pratikleri” [Sounds of Transit Migration: Musical Practices of the Chaldean-Iraqi Migrants in Istanbul], Alternatif Politika [Alternative Politics], 8(3): 460–473.
• 2015Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2015). “Transit Migration: An Unnoticed Area in Ethnomusicology,” Urban People, 17(2): 269–282.
• 2014Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2014). “Müziğin Ulus aşırı Dolaşımı Bağlamında Keldani-Iraklı Göçmen Ağlarının İlişkilenmesinde Müziğin Rolü” [The Role of Music in the Transnational Networks of Chaldean-Iraqi Migrants], Porte Akademik [Porte Academic], 10.
• 2014Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2014). “Söz ve Sesin Sınırında Ece Ayhan Şiiri ve İlhan Usmanbaş’ın Bakışsız Bir Kedi Kara’sı” [At the Boundary of Word and Sound: Ece Ayhan’s Poetry and İlhan Usmanbaş’s Bakışsız Bir Kedi Kara], Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi [Journal of Social Sciences], 6.
• 2012Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2012). “İlhan Usmanbaş’ın Üç Yapıtı Bağlamında Çağdaş Müzik-Şiir İlişkisine Bir Bakış” [A View on Contemporary Music-Poetry Relationship in the Context of Three Works by İlhan Usmanbaş], Müzik-Bilim Dergisi [Journal of Music-Science], 5.
• 2012Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2012). “Bir Modernleşme Projesi Olarak 1932 Kahire Arap Müziği Kongresi” [The 1932 Cairo Congress of Arab Music as a Modernization Project], Müzik Bilim Dergisi [Journal of Music-Science], 1.

• 2026Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2026). “Göçün ve Göçmenliğin Müzikal İfadesi: İstanbul’daki Suriyeli Müzisyenlerin Deneyimi” [Musical Expression of Migration and Migrancy: The Experience of Syrian Musicians in Istanbul], Göç Panel Bildiri Kitabı [Migration Panel Proceedings]. Datça: Datça Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları.
• 2020Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2020). “İstanbul’da Suriyeli Sokak Müzisyenliği” [Syrian Street Musicianship in Istanbul], 3rd International Symposium of Music and Dance Studies. Trabzon: Trabzon University State Conservatory, pp. 114–120.
• 2019Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2019). “Etnomüzikolojik Göç Çalışmalarının Etiği ve Politikası: Özdüşünümsel Bir Değerlendirme” [Ethics and Politics of Ethnomusicological Migration Research: A Reflexive Evaluation], International Music and Sciences Symposium. Istanbul Technical University, pp. 533–541.
• 2019Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2019). “Göç, Kültürel Bellek ve Müzik: Geçici ve Yeni Gelen Göçmen Topluluklar Örneği” [Migration, Cultural Memory, and Music: The Case of Transit and Newly Arrived Migrant Communities], X. International Hisarlı Ahmet Symposium. Kütahya, Turkey.
• 2016Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2016). “Kimliğin Müziksel Performansı: İstanbul’daki Iraklı-Keldani Topluluğu Örneği” [Musical Performance of Identity: The Case of the Iraqi-Chaldean Community in Istanbul], International Music Symposium. Uludağ University, Bursa, pp. 155–162.
• 2015Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2015). “Transit Migration in Music and Migration Studies,” Musicult’15/Music and Cultural Studies: On Local vs. Universal. Istanbul: DAKAM Publishing, pp. 75–80.
• 2014Öğüt, Evrim Hikmet (2014). “Role of Music in Maintaining Social Ties Among the Chaldean-Iraqi Communities,” Musicult’14/Music and Cultural Studies: On Local vs. Universal. Istanbul: DAKAM Publishing, pp. 219–223.

• March 2026“The Failure of Academic Foresight: The Experience of Syrian Musicians in Istanbul.” Postmigrant Music History(ies): Performances of Imperiality, Nation, and Homeland. Institut für Historische Musikwissenschaft, Köln, Germany.
• May 2024“The Potentials and Realities of Syrian Diasporic Music in Istanbul,” Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.
• June 2018“Emergent Publics: Musical Practices of Syrian Migrants in Istanbul.” University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

• September 2026“The Limits of Ethnographic Foresight: Syrian Music in Istanbul Revisited,” European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM 2026), Palanga, Lithuania.
• October 2024“Between ‘East’ and ‘West’: Rauf Yekta’s Notes on the Arab Music Congress,” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting.
• September 2024“Rauf Yekta’s Notes on the 1932 Congress of Arab Music: Being a Mediator in a Dual Musical Universe,” Joint Meeting of ICTMD Austria and ICTMD Türkiye, ITU.
• June 2024“Music and the Politics of Public Spaces: The Case of Syrian Street Music in Istanbul,” Mobile Lives: Itinerant and Street Trades and the Informal Economy in Global Historical Perspective. University of Trento.
• November 2023“Guests or Hosts? An Overview of Syrian Musicians’ Experience in Istanbul’s Tourism Sector,” Music, Migration, Belonging/s in 21st-Century Europe. Music and Minorities Research Center, Vienna.
• January 2023“Rauf Yekta’nın Kahire Arap Müziği Kongresi Notları: Müzikolo jik Bir Değerlendirme” [Rauf Yekta’s Notes on the Cairo Congress of Arab Music: A Musicological Assessment], Rauf Yekta Symposium, ITU.
• March 2022“Music, Agency, and Public Space Politics: Syrian Street Music in Istanbul,” Musical Topographies of the Mediterranean. German Historical Institute, Rome.
• May 2021“Street Music Practice as Social Non-Movement: Syrian Musicians’ Claim on Public Space,” Contesting Border Regimes: Sounds and Images Symposium. University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.
• October 2020“Claiming the Public Space: Street Music Practices of Syrian Migrant Musicians in Istanbul,” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting.
• July 2019“Sound Survivals: Affective Structures of Musical (Self)Care and Solidarity Across Borders,” Roundtable Panel, ICTM World Conference, Bangkok, Thailand.
• October 2018“İstanbul’da Suriyeli Sokak Müzisyenliği” [Syrian Street Musicianship in Istanbul], III. International Symposium of Music and Dance, Trabzon, Turkey.
• July 2018“Syrian Street Musicians in Istanbul,” Workshop on Music and Migration, University of Konstanz, Germany.
• April 2018“Syrian Street Musicianship in Istanbul,” Undisciplining Music. Grieg Music Academy, Bergen, Norway.
• March 2018“Politik Bir Eylem Olarak Müziksel Üretim” [Musical Production as a Political Act], Music and Politics Symposium, Bursa, Turkey.
• August 2017“Music and Forced Migration,” IsaScience, Vienna, Austria.
• July 2017“Syrian Musicians on Istanbul Streets: Street Musicianship as an Emerging Musical Practice,” Transnational Connections: Musical Dialogues Between Global Peripheries. Haifa, Israel.
• September 2016“A New Research Area for Ethnomusicology: Musical Practices of Transit Migration,” Music in Society. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• May 2015“The Short History of a Feminist Song from Istanbul,” Songs of Social Protest Conference. University of Limerick, Ireland.
• September 2014“Crossing the Borders One by One: Transit Migration as an Unnoticed Area in Music and Migration Studies,” XXXth European Seminar in Ethnomusicology, Prague, Czech Republic.
• June 2013“Music in Limbo: The Musical Practices of the Chaldean-Iraqi Immigrant Community in Istanbul,” 5th International Doctoral Workshop in Ethnomusicology, Hildesheim, Germany.
• March 2013“Singing in Limbo: The Musical Practices of the Chaldean-Iraqi Church in Istanbul,” Music of the Arab World Study Group Meeting, Baabda, Lebanon.

• 2022“Türkiye’de Müzik Emeğinin Durumu” [The Status of Musical Labor in Turkey: Working and Income Conditions of Music Workers]. Sivil Düşün, 2022.
• 2021–2023“Get Closer with Creative Heritage in Distant Learning: European Folklore Enlighten The Youth Work.” ERASMUS 227, MSGSU Project Coordinator, April 2021–September 2023.
• 2020–2021“Re-formation of Arab and Middle Eastern Identities through Music in New York.” Visiting Scholar, Music Department, City University of New York, Jan 2020–Jan 2021.
• 2017–2018“Kentsel Mekanın Sessel Üretimi” [Sonic Production of Urban Space: Analyzing the Soundscape of Two Neighborhoods in Beşiktaş]. MSGSU Research Project, 2017–2018.
• 2012–2013“İstanbul’daki Iraklı Göçmenlerin Yaşamında Müzik” [Music in the Lives of Iraqi Migrants in Istanbul]. ITU Research Project, 2012–2013.
• 2012–2013“Music in the Iraqi Immigrant Life in Istanbul.” Visiting Scholar, Music Department, Graduate Center, City University of New York, Aug 2012–Feb 2013.

• 2016–2018Sounds Beyond the Border: Syrian Musicians in Istanbul, video-interview series. www.soundsbeyondtheborder.org
• 2017Art Beyond the Border: Syrian Artists in Istanbul, video-interview series.
• November 2017Acoustic Utopias, curator, ARTIST Istanbul Art Fair.
• October 2017Add Your Voice to Mine: Istanbul’s Musicians, workshop, Istanbul Biennial.
• 2017–2018Göçmenin Müziği, Müziğin Göçü [The Music of the Migrant, The Migration of Music], radio program, Açık Radio.

• 2022Best Article Award, International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM).
• 2020TÜBİTAK 2219 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.
• 2019Barbara Barnard Smith Travel Award, ICTM.
• 2015Best Dissertation Award, Istanbul Technical University Institute for Social Sciences.

• 2007–presentMimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul (2007–present). Undergraduate and graduate-level courses. Courses taught: Ethnomusicology Theories; Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology; Music and Migration Studies; Culture and Music; History of Music; 20th Century Music.

• TurkishNative
• EnglishFluent, academic
• ArabicA2
• Ottoman TurkishA2

• 2021–2024Council Member, Society of Ethnomusicology (SEM).
• 2020–presentMember, Society of Ethnomusicology (SEM).
• 2012–presentMember, International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM).

• Presented public seminars on music-related topics at international institutions, universities, and NGOs.
• Published essays, concert reviews, and interviews in journals and media.
• Short stories published in literary collections.

• 2011–2014Executive Board Member, Education and Science Employees Union (Eğitim-Sen), Universities Section, Istanbul.