FILIZ CICEK, Ph.D.
Project Team Leader, YouTube Ads @ Vaco for Google, LLC
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KEY QUALIFICATIONS
• RN, Marmara University Research Hospital, Istanbul Turkey
RN, UNICEF European Vaccination Program
RN, United Nations Refugee Program, Istanbul Tiurkey
• Project Team Leader, YouTube Ads @ Vaco for Google, LLC
• Trilingual professional with over two decades of experience in higher education, journalism
and humanitarian work (Fluent in Turkish, Azeri and English (oral and written))
• Fluent in Turkish, Azeri and English (oral and written)
• Fulbright scholar and specialist for arts and humanities
• Art and film critic, with publications in national and international journals and magazines
• Human Rights language specialist, working with UN Women Europe and Central Asia
Regional Office, Istanbul Turkey
• Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Indonesia (ESL teacher).
EDUCATION
• RN, Ankara Cebeci School of Nursing, Turkey, 1988
• B.F.A., Sculpture and Cinema/Television Production, School of Fine Arts, Marmara
University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1991
• M.F.A., Sculpture, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, Indiana University,
Bloomington, 1996
• M.A., Central Eurasian Studies (Ottoman & Modern Turkish Studies), Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana, 2004
• Ph.D., Central Eurasian Studies (minor: Gender Studies and Art History), Indiana
University, Bloomington, Indiana, 2012
Dissertation: From Margins to Center Through the Film Lens: Gender and German-
Turkish Cinema
EXPERIENCE
RN
1988-1991 Intensive Care Unit, Marmara University Research Hospital, Istanbul Turkey.
1991-1992 Vaccination Nurse, UNICEF European Vaccination Program.
2013-2005 Outreach Health Care Nurse, United Nations Refugee Program, Istanbul Turkey.
Director
2015-16 Moving Fir Life, providing specified dance lessons to cancer patients and survivors for
free and raising cancer awareness by organizing the cancer walk at Central Park, annually.
2022-23 Project Team Leader, YouTube Ads @ Vaco, for Google, LLC
Fulbright
2015-19 Art Specialist: Serving as an approved expert for Art, Art History, Curator, and a
Museum expert for Fulbright Specialist Project.
2003-04 Director, Script Writer, Co-Producer: Dear Murat, A Film Project funded by Fulbright-
Hays Abroad Project Grant.
Peace Corps
2016 RPCV, Sukabumi, West Java, Indonesia.
Teaching: Art-Film
2007-08 Faculty: Gender and Transnational Cinema, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN.
2011-21 Lecturer: Art Appreciation, Indiana University Purdue University Columbus, IN.
2011-17 Adjunct Faculty: Art Survey & Culture I-II, and Women in Art, Ivy Tech Community
College Ivy Tech Community College, Bloomington.
Teaching: Language
2016 TEFL Instructor, Sukabumi City, Indonesia, United States Peace Corps, Indonesia.
2013-15 Instructor & Language Coordinator, English as a Second Language, British English
Language School, Istanbul, Turkey.
2010-11 Instructor, Elementary Turkish Online Conversation Lessons, Brigham Young University,
Provo, Utah.
LANGUAGES
English, Turkish, French, Italian, Persian, Ottoman, German, Italian, Azeri,
Bahasa Indonesia