Speaker

Prof. Dr. Dilşen İnce Erdoğan was born in Manisa in 1971. She completed her undergraduate degree in history at Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of History in 1996. In 1999, she received her master's thesis titled "Women and Family According to Sebilür'reşat in the Second Constitutional Monarchy Period" from Dokuz Eylül University Atatürk's Institute of Principles and History of Turkish Revolution and in 2006, she received her doctorate in history from the same university with her thesis titled "American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire and Van Armenian Rebellion (1896)". He worked as a lecturer at Dokuz Eylül University Atatürk's Principles and History of Turkish Revolution Institute in 2007-2008, as a doctoral lecturer at Aydın Adnan Menderes University Faculty of Arts and Sciences History Department in 2009-2013, as an associate professor in 2014-2018 and as a history professor at the same university in 2019. In 2019, he started working as a professor at Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Literature, Department of History. Since 2020, he has been working as a member of the Scientific Board of Atatürk, Culture, Language and History Higher Institution, Atatürk Research Centre and the Chairman of the International Relations Commission of the same institution and as a member of the Scientific Board of the Turkish Historical Society since 2022. In 2024, he served as Vice Rector of Dokuz Eylül University and Chairman of the Board of Directors of DEU 75th Year Primary-Secondary School. In 2025, he was the Coordinator of Dokuz Eylül University Family Year. She teaches courses titled Women and Politics, Women and Family from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic, Political Transformations and Women in the Department of Women and Family at Dokuz Eylül University Institute of Social Sciences. She has been the chairperson of the organising committee and took part in the organising committees of many international and national congresses and symposiums. Her research interests include missionary activities and American missionaries, Turkish-Armenian relations, Armenian terrorism, the Democratic Party, the British press, banditry in the Ottoman Empire, the National Struggle, and women's movements in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. She has published books, book editions and articles in her fields of study. She has participated in many national and international congresses in Turkey and abroad. She is married and has one child.