R. YILMAZ ESMER

 PERSONAL
Date of Birth July 28, 1946 (Turkey)
Business Address Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Management Çırağan Caddesi, Besiktas 34353 Istanbul, Turkey
Telephone 90-212-381 0456
Fax 90-212-381 0020
E-mail esmer@boun.edu.tr

 EDUCATION
1964 Diploma. Highland High School, Salt Lake City, Utah
1968 B.A. (cum laude) in Political Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
1975 M.A. in Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
1977 Ph.D. in Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, California

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1977-81 Assistant Professor, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
1981-82 Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Stanford, California
1983-89 Associate Professor, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
1989-07

Professor, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
1990 Fulbright Scholar, Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2007- Professor, Bahcesehir University, Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey
FIELD EXPERIENCE (partial list)
Principal or co-investigator in following surveys:
1986 Nationwide survey of the economic and social situation of Turkish households
1987 Survey of firms registered with the Chambers of Commerce and/orIndustry in Istanbul
1990,1996,200,2007

Turkish Values Surveys (part of  World Values Surveys)
1991 Survey on gender issues in Istanbul
1992 Survey on democratic culture in Istanbul
1992 Survey behavior and attitudes related to the media in Istanbul
1993 Survey on attitudes towards the state and taxation in Istanbul
1994 Survey on Islamic fundamentalism and political Islam
1998 Follow-up of the 1994 survey on political Islam
1999 Post-election survey
2001 Turkish Values Survey (part of the European Values Survey)
2002 Turkish post-election survey including the international CSES module
2003 Survey of the values of the economic elites
2005-06 European Social Survey, Round 2
2007 European Social Survey, Round 4
2007 Transformation Research Initiative (study of elite values in seven countries)
1977- Consultant/advisor to various academic surveys and public opinion research projects