Editor-in-Chief
Co-Editor
Dr. Abdullah Akbas has been an Associate Professor in the Geography Department at Bursa Uludağ University since 2019. He completed his PhD at Istanbul University and his MSc at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. During his PhD, he attended CERG-C (Specialization certificate for the assessment and management of geological and climate related risk) at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Additionally, he joined the Hydrology group at the University of Bristol as a research collaborator during his doctoral studies, supported by a TUBITAK 2214-A fellowship. His research focuses on hydrology, natural hazards, climate change (modern and paleo), and earth-atmosphere modelling using statistical and dynamical approaches, integrated with remote sensing (RS) and geographic information systems (GIS) techniques.
Publication Coordinator
Tolga Görüm is a geomorphologist interested in elucidating the mass wasting processes in different tectonic and geomorphic environments, their role in sculpting the landscapes, and mountain range evolution as a limiting factor for topographic development. In this respect, he is working on linking long- and short-term variability of erosion rates and landslide episodes at regional and local scales. He is using modern tools such as LIDAR and UAV in addition to field-based observations and measurements, geospatial technologies, geomorphic mapping and morphometric analysis, and radiometric dating techniques (e.g., Cosmogenic, OSL, and 14C) for erosion-process deciphering. In addition, considering that his secondary field of expertise is in landslide science, he seeks ways to apply soft computing techniques (e.g., Fuzzy Logic, Machine Learning algorithms) to improve the landslide susceptibility and hazard models for a safer environment.
Editorial Board
Prof. Dr. Barbaros Gönençgil was born in İstanbul. In 1987, he graduated from İstanbul University (İ.U.) Department of Geography. He received his master's degree and doctorate on Climatology at the University of İstanbul. In 1993, he started working as an assistant at İstanbul University Geography Department and he is currently the head of Geography Department, the head of Physical Geography Division in Geography Department and Open and Distance Education Faculty Geography Programme of İstanbul University. He is also a member of the Istanbul University Senate. Prof. Gönençgil is also the founder and the head of the Climate Change Division in İstanbul University Social Sciences Institute.
Prof. Dr. Gönençgil’s study areas concentrate on climate and environment. The courses he teaches are also on the same subjects. He has approximately published 90 articles, papers and books and has more than 100 conference, symposium and panel presentations. In addition, he has taken part in about 20 projects as an executive and has published many articles in popular science magazines. He was a visiting professor in Socrates/Erasmus Teaching Staff Mobility Programme in University of Leipzig, Germany in Faculty of Physics and Geosciences, Institute of Geography in 2007. He was also visiting professor at Sorbonne and Paris 8 Universities in 2018 and 2022. He was one of the authors of Discovery Geographical Atlas published in Turkey.
Prof. Dr. Gönençgil is the President of Turkish Geographical Society. At the same time, he is the editor of the Journal of Turkish Geography and Journal of Geography. He has taken part in several trainings for Geography teachers, organized by Turkish Geographical Society. He was head of the Local Organizing Committee of the IGU/IGC 2021 İstanbul. He is also the LOC Chair of the 2026 IGU Istanbul Regional Conference and İgeo 2026 İstanbul. He also been serving as the National Coordinator of the Geography Olympiad since 2024.
Prof. Dr. Gönençgil has volunteered for many years in non-governmental organizations related with the environment. He is one of the founders of the Turkish Foundation for Environmental Education, which is a member of the International Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE). At the same time he has worked for International Eco-Schools Program in Türkiye. He is a volunteer member of another environmental association in Türkiye, namely the Turkish Environmental and Woodlands Protection Society, founded in 1972. He was the chair of this society between the years of 2003 – 2012.
Since 2010, Prof. Dr. Gönençgil has been attending the IGU conferences and congresses. He is also the member of the local organizing committee in Türkiye for the International Geography Olympiad (iGEO). He attended 2012 and 2014 Geography Olympiads as a team leader. Besides, he is member of Climatology and Mountain Commissions of IGU, and co-organizer of Commission of Mediterranean Basin (COMB) 2016 Annual Meeting in Türkiye.
He served as IGU VP between 2016 -2021, from 2021 he is IGU Secretary General.
Michael Meadows, Immediate Past President of the International Geographical Union, is currently Professor in the School of Geography and Ocean Sciences at Nanjing University, China, but retains a research position in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town, where he was Head of Department from 2001-2017. Meadows has authored or co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed research articles, including in Nature Communications, Nature Geoscience, Science Advances, PNAS, Geology, and Science Bulletin, He recently co-edited two major review volumes: Research Directions, Challenges and Achievements of Modern Geography (Springer, 2023) and Geography of the Anthropocene (Istanbul University Press, 2024). Meadows’ research interests lie broadly in the field of physical geography and more specifically concern environmental change and the geomorphological and ecological impacts of recent natural and human-induced changes. Meadows is an elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Society of South African Geographers, the Royal Society of South Africa, the African Academy of Science, Academia Europaea and of the University of Cape Town. He is also a Fellow of the Geographical Society of China and of the International Science Council. He is recipient of the 2024 Royal Society of South Africa’s Marloth Medal for “highly distinguished, multidisciplinary contributions to the furtherance of science”.
Foreign Language Editor
Associate Professor Mustafa Zeki ÇIRAKLI is a critic/narratologist, author and translator. Çıraklı has received his BA from Ondokuz Mayıs University (1998) and MA from Atatürk University (2001). His MA dissertation, lectures and writings on T.S. Eliot's Art drew considerable attention. He holds his PhD from Middle East Technical University (2010). Being a member of ENN, Çıraklı was a guest researcher at the University of Hamburg, Interdisciplinary Center for Narratology, ICN (2009). His doctoral thesis "Narrative Strategies and Meaning in Golding's Fiction" was published in Germany and included in European Narratology Network Publication list (ENN: 2010). He is the author of "Anlatıbilim: Kuramsal Okumalar" (Narratology: Theory and Practice, A Critical Account of Narratives from Western and Turkish Literature : 2015) and Henry Fielding'in Roman Sanatı Üzerine Alçakgönüllü Bir Deneme, a book about the author's opinions raised in the introductory essays of Tom Jones (2015). He is the translator of two remarkable titles as well: Paul de Man's masterpiece "Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust (2009) and A. N. Wilson's "Dante in Love," an outstanding critical biography of Dante Alighieri (2013). He has been teaching at University since 1998. He was a visiting scholar in Dortmund University, Germany (2014). His BA+MA block-Seminar "Latecomers: Comparing (Post)Modern American and Turkish Fiction" (2014) took place as a subsequent event of a Seminar on "The Place of Turkish Fiction in World Literature" (2012). He directed Waiting for Godot and King Lear, the latter adapted for Turkish audience (2015, 2016 respectively). He has a volume of somewhat-biographical poetry "Eski Defterler" (Ancient Diary : 2014) and preparing another volume "Gemideki Kaçak Yolcu" (Stowaway, publication in progress). He has the starter of Narrative and Language Studies (NALANS), an International Biannual Journal (2013) and T-Notes Project, an online resource on Modern Turkish Literature (2016). He is now the director of Graduate Studies on Literature and Culture, Karadeniz Technical University (KTU), Turkey. CONTACT INFO Office:+904623773549 mobile:+905056559481 mzcirakli@gmail.com mzcirakli@ktu.edu.tr https://twitter.com/mzekicirakli https://www.facebook.com/mzcirakli https://instagram.com/mzcirakli Significant Tags: #Anlatıbilim I: Kuramsal Okumalar #Anlatıbilim II: Postklasik Okumalar #Kitabın Ortası Aforizmalar #TurkishNotes #Türk Anlatıbilim Sözlüğü
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