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Saygi.Tuna@campus.lmu.de
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Doctoral Project:
Civil Engineers & Capitalist Transformation: A Study on the Dynamics of the Construction Sector in Modern Turkey
This doctoral project examines the long-term transformation of Turkey’s construction sector from the late Ottoman period to the 1980s through the lens of civil engineers as a strategic form of human capital. It investigates how state capacity, globalization, and sectoral dynamics interacted in shaping infrastructure development and capital accumulation.
Drawing on newly constructed longitudinal datasets, the project reconstructs engineers’ social origins, educational trajectories, and professional careers, and matches structural trends in these data with shifts in public works policy. By combining quantitative reconstruction with political economy analysis, the study seeks to move beyond narrative historiography toward a more empirically grounded account of institutional change.
Rather than treating modernization as a sequence of regime breaks, the project explores patterns of continuity and transformation in state–business relations, offering a sector-based reinterpretation of Turkey’s capitalist development.
Projektleitung:
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Hacısalihoğlu
2nd Reviewer:
Prof. Dr. Theocharis Grigoriadis (FU Berlin – Economics)
Curriculum Vitae:
Saygı Tuna received his bachelor’s degree in history from Marmara University in 2015. He completed his first master's degree in the History of the Turkish Republic at the same institution, where he specialized in political economic history. Seeking to strengthen his methodological and economic training, he subsequently enrolled in a quantitative economic history master's degree program in Germany.
During this period, he participated in the Erasmus program at Sorbonne University and pursued coursework in Global History upon his return. He later shifted his focus toward econometrics, beginning in 2022 to develop quantitative models.
Alongside his doctoral research, he worked in data management in Berlin and as a data analyst at a technology company in Munich. He is currently a visiting researcher at Freie Universität Berlin, where he continues his work on economic and social history.
Research Interests:
Economic and Social History
Political Economy
Business History
Historiography
Digital History
History of Modern Turkey
Software (From Most to Least Proficient)
Python
Excel (VBA)
Stata
ArcGIS
QGIS
R
E-views
Power BI
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