Curriculum Vitae


                                                                          

                                                                         ŞENER AKTÜRK

   E-mail: sakturk@ku.edu.tr

 

Department of International Relations                                           Office: CAS 147 

Koç University, Rumelifeneri Yolu                                               Researcher ID F-8796-2011  

Sarıyer, 34450, Istanbul, Turkey                                                Website: www.senerakturk.com

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EMPLOYMENT

 

Koç University

 

Professor, Department of International Relations, August 2022 – continuing 


Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, December 2015 – August 2022

 

Doçent (Associate Professor), Inter-University Council (ÜAK), Ankara, May 27, 2013

 

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, September 2009 – December 2015

 

Harvard University

 

Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, 2009-2010

Visiting Lecturer, Department of Government, Spring 2010

 

 

EDUCATION

 

2009 Ph.D., Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Dissertation: “Re-defining Ethnicity and Belonging: Persistence and Transformation in Regimes of Ethnicity in Germany, the USSR/Russian Federation, and Turkey”

 

Subfields: 1. Comparative Politics, 2. Russia/Eastern Europe/Eurasia, 3. Political Theory  

Qualified in Post-Communist Studies and in Comparative Politics (with distinction), 2005

 

2004 M.A., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Thesis: “Moral Economy: Its Establishment, Enforcement, and Transformation in Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation”

 

2003 M.A., Committee on International Relations, University of Chicago

Thesis: “An Inquiry into the Nature of Asymmetric Conflict: The Influence of Ideational Factors on Great Power Policy-making vis-à-vis Small States and the Third World, with a Case Study of U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Iran during the Musaddiq Era (1950-1953)”

 

2003 B.A., Political Science and International Studies (double major), University of Chicago

Thesis: “Turkish-Russian Relations after the Cold War, 1992-2002” 

FIELDS OF INTERESTS

Comparative Politics; Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationalism; Grand Strategy; Geopolitical Identities and Foreign Policy; Russia, Eastern Europe, Eurasia; Turkish-Russian relations

 

HONORS & AWARDS

 

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), Incentive Award, 2019

 

Koç University CASE Outstanding Faculty (Research) Award, 2019-2020

 

Koç University CASE Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award, Spring 2017

 

Science Academy (Bilim Akademisi), Young Scientist Award (BAGEP), 2017

 

Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA), Outstanding Young Scholar Award (GEBİP), 2016

 

Kadir Has Prize, Promising Social Scientist, 2015 (10,000 USD)

 

European Commission, Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant, 2010-2014 (100,000 Euros)

 

Joseph Rothschild Prize, best book in ethnicity and nationalism, 2013

 

Association for the Study of Nationalities and the Harriman Institute, Columbia University

 

Baki Komsuoğlu Social Sciences Encouragement Award 2011 (Kocaeli University, Turkey)

 

Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award 2010 (3rd Place, 5.000 USD), Sabancı University

        

Teaching Effectiveness Award 2009, Graduate Council, UC Berkeley

 

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley, 2009

 

Alan Sharlin Memorial Research Fellowship, 2008-09. UC Berkeley, Institute for International Studies

 

John L. Simpson Memorial Research Fellowship, 2006-2007, International and Comparative Studies, IIS

 

Peter H. Odegard Award 2006, UC Berkeley, awarded annually to two advanced Ph.D. students

in Political Science for excellence and promise as a young scholar

 

Academic Progress Award, 2006, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley

 

Graduate Student Training Fellowship, 2005-2006, 2004-2005,

Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies

 

Summer Language Training Grant (for Russian),

Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Summer 2004

 

Gateway Scholarship (formerly International House Fellowship), UC Berkeley, 2003-2004

 

Foreign Language Acquisition Grant (for German), Summer 2001, the University of Chicago

 

Vehbi Koç Award, Koç Özel Lisesi, 1996


 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

2004—2009   Teaching Assistant for Comparative Politics; Russian Politics; European Integration

                       University of California, Berkeley

 

Spring 2010   Visiting Lecturer, “Comparative Politics of Post-Soviet States,” Harvard University

 

2010—2020   “Introduction to Comparative Politics,” Koç University

 

2011—2022   Designed and taught “Eurasia: Politics and Society since 1914,” Koç University

 

2011—2022   Designed and taught “Politics of Ethnicity and Nationalism,” Koç University

 

2013—2018   Designed and taught “Qualitative Research Methods,” Koç University

 

2019—2022   “Comparative Politics,” graduate seminar, Koç University

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

BOOKS

 

Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey. New York: Cambridge University Press (Problems of International Politics), 2012.

 

Winner of the 2013 Joseph Rothschild Book Prize, Association for the Study of Nationalities and the Harriman Institute, Columbia University.

 

Reviewed in Comparative Political Studies, American Historical Review, Perspectives on Politics, German Politics, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Survival, Pro et Contra, National Identities, New Perspectives on Turkey, Insight Turkey, Laboratorium, Perceptions, Turkish Studies, Turkish Review. Book Symposium in Nationalities Papers.

 

Almanya, Rusya ve Türkiye’de Etnisite Rejimleri ve Milliyet (Turkish translation of my book above), Bilgi University Press, 2015.  Reviewed in Hürriyet / Radikal Kitap, Star Kitap, Kitap Zamanı. Book interviews at Agos, Yeni Şafak, and TheNewTurkey.org  

 

Türkiye’nin Kimlikleri: Din, Dil, Etnisite, Milliyet, Devlet ve Medeniyet. Istanbul: Etkileşim, 2013.  Reviewed in İGÜSBD, Kitaptomani, Star Kitap, and Taraf Kitap.

 

EDITED BOOK

 

The Arab Spring: Past, Present, and Future. Istanbul: TRT World Research Centre, 2022. (with chapters by François Burgat, Richard Falk, Mujeeb Khan, Ziad Majed, Ömer Özkızılcık, Nur Günay, Ferhat Polat, Tahir Kılavuz, Michael Arnold, and Idlir Lika) ISBN: 978-605-9984-39-3

 

EDITED SPECIAL ISSUE

 

Guest editor of “Debating Turkey’s Grand Strategy,” Special Issue of Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs 25, no. 2 (2020): 151-283 (with five articles by Şener Aktürk, Meltem Müftüler Baç, Mustafa Aydın, Ersel Aydınlı, and Belgin Şan Akça). Full issue available at http://sam.gov.tr/pdf/perceptions/Volume-XXV/Autumn-Winter-2020/perceptions-Volume-XXV-Autumn-Winter-2020.pdf and https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/perception/issue/59437  

 

ARTICLES published in journals included in the Social Science Citation Index (marked with “SSCI”)

 

1.     “Nationalism and Religion in Comparative Perspective: A New Typology of National-Religious Configurations.” Nationalities Papers 50, no. 2 (2022): 205-218. (SSCI) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2021.17

 

2.     “Varieties of Resilience and Side Effects of Disobedience: Cross-National Patterns of Survival during the Coronavirus Pandemic.” Coauthored with Idlir Lika. Problems of Post-Communism 69, no. 1 (2022): 1-13. (SSCI)

DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10758216.2021.1894405

 

3.     “The puzzle of Turkish minority representation, nationhood cleavage, and politics of recognition in Bulgaria, Greece, and North Macedonia.” Coauthored with Idlir Lika. Mediterranean Politics 27, no. 1 (2022): 1-28. (SSCI) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2020.1750269

 

4.     “Institutionalization of Ethnocultural Diversity and the Representation of European Muslims.” Coauthored with Yury Katliarou. Perspectives on Politics 19, no. 2 (2021): 388-405. (SSCI) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592720001334

 

5.     “Comparative Politics of Exclusion in Europe and the Americas: Religious, Sectarian, and Racial Boundary Making since the Reformation.” Comparative Politics 52, no. 4 (2020): 695-719. (SSCI) DOI: https://doi.org/10.5129/001041520X15786939438699

 

6.     “Unipolar vs. Multipolar: Russland und die Türkei im Vergleich.” (“Unipolar vs. Multipolar: Russia and Turkey in comparison”). Osteuropa 68, no. 10-12 (2018): 119-129. (SSCI)

 

7.     “One Nation under Allah? Islamic Multiculturalism and Muslim Nationalism in Turkey’s Kurdish, Alevi, and Non-Muslim Reforms.” Turkish Studies 19, no.4 (2018): 523-551. (SSCI)

 

8.     “Post-imperial democracies and new projects of nationhood in Eurasia: Transforming the nation through migration.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 43, no.7 (2017): 1101-1120. (SSCI)

 

 

 

11.  “NATO Neden Genişledi? Uluslararası İlişkiler Kuramları Işığında NATO'nun Genişlemesi ve ABD-Rusya İç Siyaseti.” Uluslararası İlişkiler 9, no. 34 (2012): 73-97.  (SSCI) 

 

12.  “Regimes of Ethnicity: Comparative Analysis of Germany, the Soviet Union/Post-Soviet Russia, and Turkey.” World Politics 63, no. 01 (2011): 115-164.  (SSCI)

 

13.  “Passport Identification and Nation-Building in Post-Soviet Russia.” Post-Soviet Affairs 26, no. 04 (2010): 314-341.  (SSCI)

 

14.  “Persistence of the Islamic Millet as an Ottoman Legacy: Mono-Religious and Anti-Ethnic Definition of Turkish Nationhood.” Middle Eastern Studies 45, no. 6 (2009): 913-929. (SSCI)

 

15.  “Incompatible Visions of Supra-nationalism: National Identity in Turkey and the European Union.” European Journal of Sociology 48, no. 2 (2007): 347-372. (SSCI)

 

ARTICLES in journals not included in the Social Sciences Citation Index

 

16.  “Turkey’s Grand Strategy and the Great Powers.” Insight Turkey 23, no. 4 (2021): 95-118.

 

17.  “Turkey’s Grand Strategy as the Third Power: A Realist Proposal.” Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs 25, no. 2 (2021): 152-177.

 

18.  “Relations between Russia and Turkey Before, During, and After the Failed Coup of 2016.” Insight Turkey 21, no. 4 (2019): 97-113.

 

19.  “Temporal Horizons in the Study of Turkish Politics: Prevalence of Non-Causal Description and Seemingly Global Warming Type of Causality.” All Azimuth 8, no. 2 (2019): 117-133.

 

20.  “Türkiye’de Ulus Devletin Dönüşümü: Çok Kültürcü Açılımların Sebepleri ve Sonuçları, 2004-2013.” Bilgi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 20, no. 1 (2018): 74-101.

 

21.  “Turkey’s Role in the Arab Spring and the Syrian Conflict.” Turkish Policy Quarterly 15, no. 4 (2017): 87-96.

 

22.  “Turkey’s Civil Rights Movement and the Reactionary Coup: Segregation, Emancipation, and the Western Reaction.” Insight Turkey 18, no. 03 (2016): 141-167.

 

 

 

 

 

27.  “Türk-Rus İlişkilerinin Realist Bir Değerlendirmesi, 2002-2012: Zirveden Dibe Mi?.” Hazar Raporu, no.3 (2013): 55-70.

 

28. “September 11, 1683: Myth of a Christian Europe and the Massacre in Norway.” Insight Turkey 14, no. 1 (2012): 1- 11.

 

 

 

31.  “Origins of Gandhi's Emergence as a World Historical Figure and the New Age Culture.” Journal of Academic Studies 10, no. 38, (2008): 126-138.

 

32.  “Why did the United States overthrow the Prime Minister of Iran in 1953?.” Journal of Associated Graduate Students of Near Eastern Studies 13, no. 2 (2008): 3-22.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

39.  “A Military History of the New World Order and the Emergence of U.S. Hegemony.” Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations 5, no. 1-2 (2006): 65-72.

 

40.  “Representations of the Turkic Peoples in Shahnameh and the Greco-Roman Sources.” Journal of Academic Studies 8, no. 29 (2006): 15-26.

 

 

42.  “American and British Foreign Policy in the Middle East." Insight Turkey 7, no. 1 (2005): 153-161.

 

 

44.  “Global Governance, Humanitarian Intervention, and the UN.” Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations 2, no. 3-4 (2003): 50-62.

 

45.  “Distributional Consequences of Globalization: Economic and Political Redistribution.” Journal of Academic Studies 5, no. 17 (2003): 1-15.

 

46.  “Market Liberalism and Social Protection: Hayek, Durkheim, and Polanyi in Theoretical Perspective.” Journal of Academic Studies 4, no. 14 (2002): 17-32.

 

47.  “Reflections on a Central Eurasian Model: A Foucauldian Reply to Barfield on the Historiography of Ethnonationalism.” Central Eurasian Studies Review 5, no. 2 (2006): 19-25.

 

48.  “Identity Crisis: Russia’s Muslims in the debate over Russian Identity vis-à-vis Europe.” UC Davis International Affairs Journal 2, no. 1 (2005): 3-10.

 

49.  “Perspectives on Assyrian Nationalism.” Hemispheres: Tufts University Journal of International Affairs 25 (2002): 134-155.

 

 

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

 

1.     “Ethnicity and Religion in Russia.” In Susanne Wengle (ed.), Russian Politics Today: Stability and Fragility (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022): 482-505.

 

2.     “Comparative Politics of the Coronavirus Pandemic.” In Muzaffer Şeker, Ali Özer, Cem Korkut (eds.), Reflections on the Pandemic in the Future of the World (Ankara: TÜBA, 2020): 309-324.

 

3.     “Etnisite Rejimleri ve Türkiye’de Ulus Devletin Dönüşümü.” In Muzaffer Elmas, Mahmut Bilen, Mustafa Kemal Şan (eds.), Sosyal Bilimlerle Çağı Yorumlamak: Fikirler, Düşünceler, Volume 2 (Sakarya: Sakarya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2018): 135-149.

 

4. “Demokratik Zeminde Tabanı Eriyenler ve 15 Temmuz Darbe Girişiminin Sebepleri.” In Abdurrahman Babacan (ed.), 15 Temmuz: Geçmiş-Gelecek (İstanbul: Pınar Yayınları, 2018): 325-352.

 

5.     “AK Parti ve Türkiye’nin Sivil Haklar Hareketi: Dindar Muhafazakarlığa ve Etnik Kimliklere Yönelik Siyasi Tecridin Kaldırılması.” In Nebi Miş and Ali Aslan (eds.), Kuruluşundan Bugüne AK Parti: Siyaset (İstanbul: SETA, 2018): 297-314.

 

6. “Türkiye’nin Rusya ile İlişkilerinin Yükseliş ve Gerilemesi, 1992-2015: Neorealist Bir Değerlendirme.” In Gencer Özcan, Evren Balta, Burç Beşgül (eds.), Kuşku ile Komşuluk: Türkiye-Rusya İlişkilerinde Değişen Dinamikler (İstanbul: İletişim, 2017): 129-145.

 

7.     “The Myth of a Christian Europe: From the Siege of Vienna to the Massacre in Norway.” In Andreas Delsett (ed.), The Saladin Anthology (Oslo: Litteraturhuset, 2016): 58-67.

 

8.     (with Evangelos Liaras) “Uluslararası Nüfus Yer Değiştirmeleri ve Uzun Vadeli Seçmen Davranışı: Karşılaştırmalı Bakış Açısından Türk-Yunan Nüfus Mübadelesi.” In 90. Yılında Türk-Yunan Zorunlu Nüfus Mübadelesi: Yeni Yaklaşımlar, Yeni Bulgular. (İstanbul: Lozan Mübadilleri Vakfı Yayınları, 2016): 26-32.

 

9.     “Etnik ve Dini Kimlikler ve Özgürlükler: Avrupa Çapında Bir Karşılaştırma.” In Liberal Temalar (İstanbul: Liber, 2016): 123-138.

 

10.  “A Realist Reassessment of Turkish-Russian Relations, 2002-2012: From the Peak to the Dip?.” in Ahmet Yükleyen (ed.), Geopolitics of the Caspian Region (Istanbul: Caspian Strategy Institute, 2015): 42-66.

 

11.  “Milliyetçilik ve Etnik Çatışmalar.” in Şaban Kardaş and Ali Balcı (eds.), Uluslararası İlişkilere Giriş (Istanbul: Küre, 2014): 419-426.

 

12.  “Vaka Analizi.” in Ali Çarkoğlu (ed.), Uluslararası İlişkilerde Araştırma Yöntemleri (Eskişehir: Anadolu Üniversitesi, 2012): 92-121.

 

13.  “Çoklu Yöntem Yaklaşımları.” (with Belgin Şan Akça) in Ali Çarkoğlu (ed.), Uluslararası İlişkilerde Araştırma Yöntemleri (Eskişehir: Anadolu Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2012): 212-241.

 

14.  “Politics of History in Turkey: Revisionist Historiography’s Challenge to the Official Version of the Turkish War of Liberation (1919-1922).” in Alexei Miller and Maria Lipman (eds.), Convolutions of Historical Politics, (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2012): 279-308.

 

 

16.  “İslamcılığın Kürt Açılımı.” in Seyfullah Özkurt (ed.), İslamcılık Tartışmaları (İstanbul: Ufuk, 2012): 297-301.

 

17.  “Türkiye’de Kürt Kimliğinin Siyasallaşma Süreci: 1918-2008.” in Rasim Özgür Dönmez, Pınar Enneli, Nezahat Altuntaş (eds.), Türkiye’de Kesisen-Çatısan Dinsel ve Etnik Kimlikler (Istanbul: Say, 2010): 83-114.

 

18.  “What is a Civilization? From Braudel to Elias the Varying Definitions of 'Civilization'.” In Muzaffer Senel and Sadik Unay (eds.). Global Orders and Civilizations: Perspectives from History, Philosophy and International Relations (New York: Nova Publishers, 2009): 49-66.

 

19.  “Türkiye Siyasetinde Alevi ve Kürt Talepleri: Anti-Etnik bir Rejimde Etnik Muhalefet, 1923-1980.” In Ayşegül Komsuoğlu (ed.). Türkiye’de Siyasal Muhalefet (Istanbul: Bengi, 2008): 315-349.

 

20.  “Living at and beyond the Grenzenpunkte: A Comparison of Nietzsche’s Artistic Socrates and Kierkegaard’s knight of faith.” In Stephen Voss (ed.). The Proceedings of the twenty-first World Congress of Philosophy, Volume 9: Philosophical Anthropology (Ankara: Philosophical Society of Turkey, 2006): 51-62.

 

21.  “Perspectives on Daniel Bell’s East Asian Challenge to Human Rights: East Asian Challenge or Alternative Trends within Modern Thought?.” in Zeynep Davran and Stephen Voss (eds.), The Proceedings of the twenty-first World Congress of Philosophy, Volume 3: Human Rights (Ankara: Philosophical Society of Turkey, 2006): 37-44.

 

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

(Review of Manuel Vogt, Mobilization and Conflict in Multiethnic States, by Manuel Vogt, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019, as part of a Book Symposium)

 

2. Michael Albertus and Victor Menaldo, Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy, TRT World Research Centre, April 26, 2021.

 

3. Grigore Pop-Eleches and Joshua A. Tucker, Communism’s Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporar Political Attitudes, TRT World Research Centre, December 29, 2020.

 

4. Leonard C. Chiarelli, A History of Muslim Sicily, TRT World Research Centre, November 23, 2020.

 

5. M. Hakan Yavuz (ed.), Turkey’s July 15th Coup: What Happened and Why, Insight Turkey 21, no. 3 (2019): 247-250.

 

6. H. Zeynep Bulutgil, The Roots of Ethnic Cleansing in Europe, Nationalities Papers 46, no. 5 (2018): 911-916. (as part of a Book Symposium)

 

7. Philip T. Hoffman, Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Insight Turkey 19, no. 3 (2017): 243-246.

 

8. Prerna Singh, How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India, Nationalities Papers 45, no. 4 (2017): 722-724.

 

9. Senem Aslan, Nation-Building in Turkey and Morocco: Governing Kurdish and Berber Dissent, Nationalities Papers 44, no. 1 (2016): 187-189.

 

10.  James H. Meyer, Turks across Empires: Marketing Muslim Identity in the Russian-Ottoman Borderlands, 1856-1914, Turkish Review, no. 29 (2015).

 

11.  Frederick F. Anscombe, State, Faith, and Nation in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Lands, New Perspectives on Turkey 52, no. 1 (2015): 162-165.

 

12.  M. Steven Fish, Are Muslims Distinctive? A Look at the Evidence, Perceptions 17, no. 1 (2012): 110-113.

 

13.  Ahmet T. Kuru, Pasif ve Dışlayıcı Laiklik: ABD, Fransa, Türkiye, “Üç Ülkede Laiklik,” Radikal Kitap, October 14, 2011.

 

14.  Roland Dannreuther and Luke March (eds.), Russia and Islam: State, Society, and Radicalism, Russian Review 70, no. 3 (2011): 550-551.

 

15.  Frank Grüner, Patrioten und Kosmopoliten: Juden im Sowjetstaat 1941-1953, Cold War Studies 12, no. 4 (2010): 205-207

 

16.  John Erik Fossum, Johanne Poirier, Paul Magnette (eds.), The Ties that Bind: Accommodating Diversity in Canada and the European Union, Insight Turkey 12, no. 2 (2010): 271-273.

 

17.  Gwendolyn Sasse, The Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict, Comparative Political Studies 42, no.3 (2009): 464-467.

 

18.  Asa Lundgren, The Unwelcome Neighbour: Turkey's Kurdish Policy, Nationalities Papers 37, no. 2 (2009): 242-244.

 

19.  James N. Rosenau, David C. Earnest, Yale H. Ferguson, and Ole R. Holsti, On the Cutting Edge of Globalization: An Inquiry into American Elites, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 37, no. 1 (2008): 236-237.

 

20.  Irina Mukhina, The Germans of the Soviet Union, Europe-Asia Studies 60, no. 4 (2008): 696-698.

 

21.  Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude, Rethinking Marxism 19, no. 2 (2007): 275-277.

 

22.  Ayse Ayata, Ayca Ergun, and Isil Celimli (eds.), Black Sea Politics: Political Culture and Civil Society in an Unstable Region, Europe-Asia Studies 58, no. 5 (2006): 810-812.

 

23.  Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century, Nationalities Papers 33, no. 4 (2005): 601-603.

 

24.  (with Kate Graney) Shireen Hunter, Islam in Russia: The Politics of Identity and Security, Eurasian Geography and Economics 46, no. 4 (2005): 319-325.

 

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES

 

1.     “Post-Soviet Eastern Europe” and “Post-Soviet Central Asia”, in Fred Nadis and Jack Waskey, eds. World History Encyclopedia (ABC-Clio, 2011): 345-349.

 

2.     “Contract Enforcement” in Mark Bevir ed., Encyclopedia of Governance, Sage, 2006.

 

3.     “Iran” (with Payam Foroughi) in M. Odekon ed., Encyclopedia of World Poverty, Sage, 2006.

 

4.     Provided an expert evaluation of parliamentary powers in “Cyprus”, “Turkey”, “Turkmenistan”, and “Saudi Arabia”, for M. Steven Fish and Matthew Kroenig (eds.), The Handbook of National Legislatures: A Global Survey, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

 

 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

 

1.     “Evaluation of the Global Environment: Rise of China; Russia-West Confrontation; and Emerging Threats.” Panorama, Online, 22 July 2022, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.21362.79042

 

2. Contributor to “Rusya’nın Ukrayna’yı İşgali ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Çalıştayı Sonuç Raporu,” Ankara: Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi, Mart 2022. ISBN: 978-605-2249-99-4 and DOI: 10.53478/TUBA.978-605-2249-99-4

 

3.     “After the Deluge: Comparative Politics of the Coronavirus Pandemic.” TRT World Research Centre Policy Outlook, May 2020.

 

4.     “Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring and the Battle for a Free Syria.” TRT World Research Centre Policy Outlook, December 2019.

 

5.     “Five Faces of Russia’s Soft Power: Far Left, Far Right, Orthodox Christian, Russophone, and Ethnoreligious Networks.” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo 623, November 2019.

 

6.     “Comparative Politics of Circumcision Bans.” American Political Science Association, APSA Preprints, November 7, 2019. doi: 10.33774/apsa-2019-d0gw1

 

7.     Political Engineering and the Exclusion of Religious Conservative Muslims in Europe: Muslim Parliamentarians and the Prohibition of Islamic Practices in Western Europe. Istanbul: SETA, 2018. (95 pages). Translated into German and Turkish.

 

8.     “Why did the PKK declare Revolutionary People’s War in July 2015?.” POMEPS Studies 22: Contemporary Turkish Politics, 2016, pp.59-63.

 

 9. “The Crisis in Russian-Turkish Relations, 2008-2015.” Russian Analytical Digest, No. 179 (February 2016): 2-5.

 

10.  “How Immigration Aids Russia’s Transformation into an Assimilationist Nation-State.” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo, no. 347 (2014): 1-6.

 

 

12.  A Realist Reassessment of Turkish-Russian Relations, 2002-2012: From the Peak to the Dip?. Istanbul: Caspian Strategy Institute, 2013. (24 pages).

 

 

14.  “Comparing Ethnicity Regimes in the Five Central Asian Republics.” Institute for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies Newsletter 25, no. 3 (2008): 6-12.

 

15.  “15 Years after the “Collapse” of Soviet Socialism: The Role of Elite Choices, Class Conflict, and a Critique of Modernization Theory.” Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies Working Paper Series (February 2008), 1-31.

 

16.  “Explaining the Variation in Political Regime Outcomes after Communism: Displacement of the Communist Era Nomenklatura and Democratization.” Institute for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies Newsletter 24, no. 2 (2007): 5-12.

 

 

POPULAR MEDIA

 

Numerous opinion pieces published in Turkish for various newspapers including (in alphabetical order) Karar, Radikal, Sabah, Star, Taraf, Yeni Safak, Zaman; opinion pieces in English for the Anadolu Agency, Chicago Maroon, Daily Sabah, Hürriyet Daily News, Politics Today, The New Turkey, Today’s Zaman; articles for the popular monthly journals Kriter and Lacivert.

 

Appeared in various Turkish national TV stations as a guest commentator including in A Haber, CNN Türk, Habertürk, Sky360, Tele1, TRT Haber, TRT Türk, TV Net, TGRT Haber; in English, CNN International, The Real News Network, and TRT World. I gave full length interviews about my research to the daily and weekly newspapers and news agencies including in Agos (twice), Anadolu Ajansı, Gerçek Hayat, Hürriyet Pazar, Sabah, Takvim, Yeni Asya and Yeni Şafak.

 

 

GRANTS AND PROJECTS

 

European Commission, Erasmus+/Jean Monnet Network project, “The Securitization of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities and the Rise of Xenophobia in the EU,” 2021-2024.

 

Science Academy (Bilim Akademisi), Young Scientist Award (BAGEP), 2017-2018

 

Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA), Outstanding Young Scientist Award (GEBİP), 2016-2018

 

European Commission, FP 7, Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant, 2010-2014

 

GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION

 

Primary advisor of three Ph.D. students who defended their dissertation in the past:

 

Idlir Lika, Ph.D. Thesis, “Nationhood Cleavages and Ethnic Conflict: A Comparative Analysis

of Post-Communist Bulgaria, Montenegro, and North Macedonia.”

Primary advisor. Defended his dissertation on December 18, 2019.

 

Kadir Aydın Gündüz, Ph.D. Thesis, “Moving Beyond ‘a Minimal Democracy’: A comparative analysis of democratization reforms in three protracted democratizations.”

Primary advisor. Defended his dissertation on July 26, 2017.

 

İmren Borsuk, Ph.D. Thesis, “Explaining Intercommunal Peace and Conflict in Turkey and

Northern Ireland.” Primary advisor. Defended her dissertation on August 18, 2015.

 

Primary advisor of seven M.A. students who defended their MA theses in the past:

 

         Nihal Tüzgen, M.A. Thesis, “Politics of Ethnic Classification: A Comparative Analysis of Censuses in Bolivia and Peru.” Primary advisor. Defended her thesis on July 27, 2020.

 

           Ayşenur Değer Yanık, M.A. Thesis, “Women’s Parliamentary Representation in Poland, Hungary, and Czechia: The Role of Women’s Mobilization on Representational Gains.” Primary advisor. Defended her thesis on July 28, 2020.

 

           Zsofia Flora Bocskay, M.A. Thesis, “Comparative Analysis of Language Reforms and Nationalism in Hungary, Croatia, and Norway.” Primary advisor. Defended her thesis on May 23, 2017.

 

Muhammed Yasin Budak, M.A. Thesis, “Ethnic Identity and Political Participation: The Case of Circassians in Uzunyayla.” Primary advisor. Defended on November 25, 2014.

 

Şükriye Gökçe Silman, M.A. Thesis, “Politics of National Identity and Language: A Comparative Study of Linguistic Rights and Language Policies in Turkey and France.” Primary advisor. Defended on August 28, 2012.

 

Matthew Osarenren Akiya, M.A. Thesis, “The Polarization of Electoral Support: Analysis of the Nigerian Presidential Elections.” Primary advisor. Defended on July 10, 2012.

 

Ayhan Özşeker, M.A. Thesis, “Discourse and Policies on Non-Muslim Citizens: A Comparative Analysis of Main Political Traditions in Turkey (1923-2012).” Primary advisor. Defended on July 2, 2012.

 

Muhammet Tahir Kılavuz, M.A. Thesis (secondary advisor), “The Old Elites Strike Back: The End of Political Liberalization under Khrushchev and Menderes.” Secondary advisor. Defended on January 7, 2014

 

METHODOLOGY and LANGUAGE TRAINING

 

Institute for Qualitative Research Methods, Arizona State University, Phoenix, January 3-13, 2006.

 

Russian Language Center, Moscow State University, Russia (Summer 2004)

 

Language Proficiency Certificate in German, University of Chicago (May 2002)

 

Studies in Western Civilization with a focus on East-Central Europe, and German language, Vienna, Austria (Fall 2001)

 

Österreichische Sprach-Diplom Deutsch (Austrian Diploma for German Language), Actilingua Academy, Vienna, Austria (August 2001)

 

Languages:  Turkish (native), German (proficient), Russian (proficient)

 

 

ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

 

2013—2022 (continuing) Member of the Committee for organizing/reviewing Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus panels at the ASN Annual Conventions, Columbia University, New York

 

2013            International Conference on the 90th Year of Turkish-Greek Population Exchange, Istanbul

 

 

INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE RESPONSIBILITIES

 

December 2021— Koç University Press, Editorial Board Member

2021-2022 EQUIS Committee Member

2020-2021 Stanford-Koç Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP) Committee Member for CASE

2019-2020 Academic Review of the Department of International Relations (with Prof. Ziya Öniş)

2016—2017 Graduate program coordinator for Political Science & International Relations

2013-2014 Executive Board Member, Migration Research Center (MiReKoc), Koç University

2011— 2013 International Relations Seminar Series Coordinator, Koç University  

2011—Qualifying Exam Committees for Ph.D. Students

 

 

Editing and Reviewing for Academic Journals

 

2013 –        Associate Editor, Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity

 

2009 –              Reviewer for the American Political Science Review, World Politics, International Security, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Post-Soviet Affairs, Mediterranean Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, Politics and Religion, International Migration, International Relations, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, Social Science History, South European Society and Politics, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Journal of International Relations and Development, Ethnicities, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Nations and Nationalism, Insight Turkey, and Uluslararası İlişkiler

 

 

Membership of Scientific Societies

 

2018-2021  Executive Board Member, Council for European Studies, Historical Study of States and

                       Regimes (HSSR)

2004 –        Member, American Political Science Association (APSA). 

                    Member of the APSA sections on “Qualitative and Multi-Method Research”, “Comparative Politics” and “Religion and Politics”

2004 –        Member, Association for the Study of Nationalities

2014 –        Member (by invitation), Research Network, PONARS: New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia, George Washington University, Washington, DC, U.S.A.

2014 –        Member (by invitation), Research Network, “Historical Study of States and Regimes,” Council for European Studies (institutional host: Columbia University, New York)

2014 –        Member (by invitation), International Association for the Study of German Politics

 

 

SELECTION OF INVITED LECTURES


“Turkey’s Grand Strategy and the Great Powers,” NORIA network, November 3, 2021 (virtual).

 

 “Does Nationalism increase or decrease religiosity? An Empirical Baseline.” ETHNICGOODS workshop, European Research Council funded project based in IBEI, Barcelona, June 2021 (online).

 

“Türkiye’nin Büyük Stratejisi,” TİKA, April 2021 (online due to the Covid-19 pandemic)

 

“Turkey’s Grand Strategy,” CIGA, March 2021 (online/virtual due to the Covid-19 pandemic)

 

“Türkiye’nin Grand Stratjesi,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs, January 2021 (virtual due to the pandemic)

 

“Not So Innocent? The Political Origins of Religious Homogeneity in Medieval Western Europe, 1209-1609,” Bilkent University, Ankara, November 21, 2019.

 

“Democracy and Multiculturalism: (Dis)Enfranchisement of Religious Minorities and the Origins of Democracy,” Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, October 17, 2019.

 

“Democracy and Multiculturalism: Political Representation of Ethnoreligious Groups in the Ottoman and Tsarist Russian Parliaments,” Eurasian Parliamentary Practices and Political Mythologies, Heidelberg University, IWH, June 2019.

 

“Turkey’s Role in the Arab Spring and the Syrian Conflict,” Karadeniz Vakfı, Istanbul, April 2019.

 

“Karşılaştırmalı Siyaset: Etnisite ve Milliyetçilik,” Medipol Üniversitesi Siyaset Akademisi, Istanbul, February 2019.

 

“Türkiye’nin Grand Stratejisi,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ankara, December 2018.

 

“European state formation: three models of nation-building, and the variation in state policies toward ethnic diversity,” St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, November 24, 2018.

 

 “Development Paths in Russia since 1991 and in Turkey since 1983,” Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde, Bonn, Germany, November 24, 2017.

 

“Turkey’s Civil Rights Movement: Segreation, Emancipation, and Democracy Indices,” Harvard

University, Kennedy School of Government, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs,

Middle East Initiative Speaker Series, May 3, 2017.

 

“One nation under Allah? Islamic multiculturalism and Muslim nationalism in Turkey‘s Kurdish, Alevi, and Armenian Openings,” Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity, Göttingen, Germany, July 2016

 

“Etnisite Rejimleri ve Milliyet,” Bursa Akademi, Fikir Zanaatkarları, Uludağ University, Mart 2016

 

“Uçak Krizi Sonrası Türkiye-Rusya İlişkileri,” SETA, Ankara, December 2015

 

“Din ve Milliyetçilik: Türkiye, Cezayir ve Pakistan’da İslami Kökenler ile Laik Ulus İnşasının Çelişkileri,” Bilim ve Sanat Vakfı (BİSAV), Vefa, Istanbul, October 2015

 

“European State Formation and Three Models of Nation-Building,” University of Bern, Institute of Sociology, March 2015

 

“Muslim Representation in Western and Post-Communist Legislatures,” Annual Koç-Stanford Lecture, The Mediterranean Studies Forum; Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies; and the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford University, November 1, 2013.

 

“Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey,” Annual Koç-Stanford Lecture, The Mediterranean Studies Forum; Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies; and the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford University, October 29, 2013.

 

Public presentation to the members of the parliament on the origins and possible solutions of the Kurdish question in Turkey, TBMM Toplumsal Barış Yollarının Araştırılması ve Çözüm Sürecinin Değerlendirilmesi Komisyonu, TBMM, May 28, 2013

 

“Türkiye’nin Kimlikleri ve Etnisite Rejimleri: Din, Dil, Etnisite, Milliyet, Devlet ve Medeniyet,” (book talk) İstanbul Şehir University, Department of Sociology, May 8, 2013

 

“Domestic Drivers of Turkey’s Democratic Transformation,” SETA, Washington, D.C., April 16, 2013

 

“Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey” (book talk), George Washington University, Department of Political Science, Washington, D.C., April 15, 2013

 

“Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey” (book talk), Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, April 10, 2013

 

“Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey” (book talk), International House, University of California, Berkeley, April 8, 2013

 

“Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey” (book talk), University of California, Berkeley, Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science, April 5, 2013

 

Almanya, Rusya ve Türkiye’de Etnisite Rejimleri ve Milliyet, Bilim Sanat Vakfı, March 30, 2013

 

Alman Siyasetinde Göçtürkler, BİLGESAM, İstanbul, March 13, 2013

 

September 11, 1683: The Myth of a Christian Europe and the Massacre in Norway, House of Literature, sponsored by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oslo, Norway, March 2, 2012

 

Kürt Çözümü: Açılımın Sebepleri, Sonuçları ve Sınırları, SÜREÇ (Sosyal Üretim ve Eğitim Çalışmaları) Derneği, Haziran 2012

 

Three Lectures on Muslim Minority Representation, German Citizenship Reform, and Turkish Minority in Germany Politics, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Turkey, Ankara, December 2011

 

“Batı ve Komünist-Sonrası Yasama Organlarında Müslüman Azınlıkların Temsili,” TOBB ETU University, Ankara, December 2011

 

“The German Ethnicity Regime,” Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany, May 2011

 

“Multiculturalism under the JDP Government: Kurds, Alevis, and Other Minorities in Turkey,” inaugural invited speaker of the Young Scholars on Turkey Series, SETA, Washington, DC, May 7, 2010

 

“Carving Nation from Confession: Haven Nationalism and Religious Backlash in Turkey, Israel, and Pakistan,” invited speaker to the Princeton University, Program in Near Eastern Studies, May 11, 2010

 

“Religious Diversity Gap: A Global Comparison of Muslim and Christian Minorities,” invited speaker to the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion, Columbia University, April 15, 2010; Çağatay Turkish Studies Lecture Series, Yale University, February 25, 2010.

 

“Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationalism in Turkey: From Empire through the Republic,” invited speaker of the KSG-Turkish Caucus, Kennedy School of Government-Harvard University, March 8, 2010

 

“From Social Democracy to Islamic-Ottoman Multiculturalism: Origins of the Historic Reforms in State Policies Towards Ethnicity in Turkey”, Turkey in the Modern World Series, Weatherhead Center for International and Area Studies, Harvard University, December 9, 2009

 

“Turkey and the EU,” at the European Union: A Teachers' Institute, Apr.4, 2009, UC Berkeley.

 

“Nation-Building, Islam, and Resistance in Turkey, Pakistan, and Algeria,” International House, Feb. 25, 2009

 

“Alevi-Kürt Denklemi: Etnik Kimlik Temelli Sorunlarımızın Evrimi, 1918-2008, ADAM Sosyal Bilimler Araştırma Merkezi (ADAM Social Sciences Research Center), Istanbul, July 30, 2008.

 

“Alevi and Kurdish Representation and Demands in Turkish Politics, 1950-2007”, Department of Political Science and International Relations Lecture Series, Bogazici University, July 10, 2008.

 

"Challenges to Transform the Ethnicity Regime in Turkey: Alevi and Kurdish Electoral Behavior and Demands for Recognition, 1946-2007", Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR) lecture series, Columbia University, New York, April 14, 2008.

 

“Regimes of Ethnicity in Germany, Soviet Union/Russian Federation, and Turkey: Mono-ethnic, Multi-ethnic, and Non-ethnic regimes and pressures for change”, Dept. of Political Science and International Relations, Bogazici University, Istanbul, November 5, 2007.

 

"Challenging Turkey's Ethnicity Regime: Political Demands of Religious and Ethnic Minorities, 1946-2007", Public talk sponsored by the Religion, Politics and Globalization Program (RPGP), April 29, 2008, University of California, Berkeley.

 

“Turkey and the European Union”, Berkeley City Club (Affiliate of the World Affairs Council), Great Decisions Lecture Series, Apr 13, 2006

 

 “What Was Communism and What Did It Mean to Different People” and “Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Eastern Europe: From Bosnia to Bulgaria”, ORIAS Summer Teacher’s Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. Personal Narratives: Studying Cultural Interaction, Exchange and Migration through First Person Accounts. July 26, 2005. (Reviewed by Stella Bourgoin in the ISEEES Newsletter, vol.22, no.3 (Fall 2005), p.20-21.

 

 

SELECTION OF CONFERENCE PAPERS, SEMINAR SERIES, WORKSHOPS

 

This limited selection only includes conference papers/presentations before May 2013:

 

“Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey” (book panel), Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, April 19, 2013

 

“Regimes of Ethnicity: A Global Survey and Database of Ethnic Demography and State Policies on Ethnicity,” Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, April 18, 2013

 

“International Population Displacement and Long-Term Electoral Behavior: The Greek-Turkish Population Exchange in Comparative Perspective,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 12, 2013

 

“Regimes of Ethnicity: A Global Survey and Database of Ethnic Demography and State Policies on Ethnicity,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 14, 2013

 

“International Population Displacement and Long-Term Electoral Behavior: The Greek-Turkish Population Exchange in Comparative Perspective,” International Studies Association, San Francisco, April 5, 2013

 

“Regimes of Ethnicity: A Global Survey and Database of Ethnic Demography and State Policies on Ethnicity,” International Studies Association, San Francisco, April 3, 2013

 

“Why Don’t You Remember? Five Major Misconceptions in the Debate over the Ethnic Cleansing of Balkan Muslims,” International Congress on Neighborhood (ICON) sponsored by Hacettepe University, Istanbul, October 2012


“Why Don’t You Remember? Five Major Misconceptions in the Debate over the Ethnic Cleansing of Balkan Muslims,” I. International Balkan Conference, Suleyman Sah University, Istanbul, Sept. 2012

 

“Regimes of Ethnicity: Comparing Europe and Post-Communist Eurasia,” Ethnic Politics Workshop, Sabancı University, May 5, 2012

 

“Ten Common Misconceptions on the “Kurdish Question” of Turkey,” Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, April 20, 2012

 

“Regimes of Ethnicity: Comparing Europe and Post-Communist Eurasia,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 12, 2012

 

“East European Revolutions of 1989-90 and the Arab Spring of 2011-12,” Ideas, Perspectives, and Political Platforms Transforming MENA Today, Istanbul Sehir University, March 30, 2012

        

“Regimes of Ethnicity in Europe: Comparing EU members, Post-Communist states, and others,” Council for European Studies, Boston, March 23, 2012

 

“İslamcılığın Kürt Açılımı: Sebepleri, Sonuçları, Sınırları,” Kriz ve Kritik, Sakarya University, November 3, 2011

 

“Muslim Representation in Western and Post-Communist Legislatures,” ICIS Inaugural Workshop, Harvard University, October 2011

 

“Regimes of Ethnicity: Comparing East, West, and  South,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Sept. 1-4, 2011

 

“Political Representation of Muslims in Western and Post-Communist Legislatures,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Sept. 2-5, 2010

 

“The Fourth Style of Politics: Turkish Eurasianism as a Pro-Russian and Statist Ideology in Comparative Perspective,” 15th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, April 15-17, 2010

 

“Religious Diversity Gap: A Global Comparison of Muslim and Christian Minorities,” Research Workshop in Comparative Politics, Harvard University, February 10, 2010; Islam in the West Program, Harvard University, March 2, 2010

 

“The Nation That Wasn't There? The Rise and Fall of the Soviet People and ‘Passport Ethnicity’, 1953-1983”, Historians' Seminar, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, Dec. 1, 2009

 

“Yeltsin, Putin, and Russian Nationalism: Change in the Ethnicity Regime in Post-Communist Russia and Its Aftermath, 1992-2008”, Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop, Harvard University, November 9, 2009

 

“Regimes of Ethnicity,” Weatherhead Center for International and Area Studies, Research Workshop in Comparative Politics, Harvard University, September 23, 2009

 

“Carving Nation from Confession: Haven Nationalism and Religious Backlash in Turkey, Israel, and Pakistan” (with Dann Naseemullah), American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, September 5, 2009

 

“Nation-Building, Islam, and Resistance in Turkey, Pakistan and Algeria”, Patterns of Secularism Conference, Univ. of Utah, June 13, 2009

 

“Nationalism and the Islamic World: Nation-Building and Resistance in Turkey, Pakistan, and Algeria”, UC Berkeley-Stanford Comparative Politics Workshop 2009, Apr.17, 2009, Faculty Club, UC Berkeley

 

“The Religious Diversity Gap: A Global Comparison of Minorities in Christian and Muslim Countries” (with Francesca Refsum Jensenius), Sixth Annual Berkeley Political Science Graduate Student Conference, Apr.16, 2009, Faculty Club, UC Berkeley.

 

“The Nation That Wasn’t There? The Notion of the Soviet People/Nation and Post-Stalinist Attempts at Reforming the Ethnicity Regime in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation, 1953-1997”, International Studies Association Annual Convention, Feb. 17, 2009, New York; Sixth Annual Berkeley Political Science Graduate Student Conference, Apr.16, 2009, Faculty Club, UC Berkeley; 14th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Apr. 25, 2009, Columbia University, New York.

 

Discussant at the conference, Responding to a Resurgent Russia: Russian Policy and Responses from the EU and U.S., Apr.2, 2009, International House, UC Berkeley.

 

"Ethnic Categories and Nationality in Transition: Citizenship and Minority Reforms in Germany, Russia, and Turkey", presenter and panel organizer at the panel "Comparing Turkey: Ethnic Categories and State Policies at the Crossroads of East and West", American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, August 28, 2008.

 

"Political Construction of an Assimilationist Hegemony and the Transformation of the Ethnicity Regime in Germany, 1973-2005", Fifth Annual Berkeley Political Science Graduate Student Conference, April 25, 2008, Faculty Club, Berkeley.

 

"Mono-Ethnic Regime Encounters Ethnic Diversity: The German Nation and its “guests” during the Recruitment Period and in its immediate aftermath, 1955-1982”, VoxPop (Voice of the People) Conference, April 11, 2008, New School for Social Research, New York, and also in the 13th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, April 10, 2008, Columbia University, New York.

 

"The Emergence of Assimilationist Hegemony in German Politics vis-a-vis Immigrants", 16th International Conference of the Council for European Studies Conference, March 6-8, 2008, Drake Hotel, Chicago.

 

“Comparing Regimes of Ethnicity in the Five Central Asian Republics: Commonalities and Differences”, European Society for Central Asian Studies Conference, September 12-15, 2007, Middle East Technical University, Ankara.

 

“Continuity and Change in the Institutions of Ethnicity in Austria, Germany, Soviet Union/Russia, and Turkey: Varieties of Ethnic Regimes and Explanations of Change”, Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) Conference, March 23-25, 2006, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York; and also in Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Apr. 20-23, 2006, Chicago.

 

“What is a Civilization? From Huntington to Elias the Varying Uses of the Term 'Civilization'”, International Symposium on Civilizations and World Orders, May 12-14, 2006, Istanbul.

 

“Historical evolution of Turkey’s ‘imperial’ nationhood and the EU: The Institutionalization of Turkish National Identity and the European Experience in the 20th Century”, Association for the Study of Nationalities Conference, April 14-16, 2005, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York; Berkeley Political Science 2005 Graduate Student Conference, May 2, 2005, University of California, Berkeley; Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies Graduate Student Seminar, May 9, 2005; 17th Middle Eastern History and Theory Conference, May 13-14, 2005, University of Chicago

 

“Eurasianism Turkish-Style: The Origins and the Rise of Turkish Eurasianism”, Association for the Study of Nationalities Conference, Apr. 15-17, 2004, Columbia University, New York

 

“Living at and beyond the Grenzenpunkte: A Comparison of Nietzsche’s Artistic Socrates and Kierkegaard’s Knight of Faith”, 25th World Congress of Philosophy, August 12-18, 2003, Istanbul

 

“Perspectives on Daniel Bell’s ‘East Asian Challenge to Human Rights’: East Asian Challenge or Alternative Trends within Modern Thought?,” 25th World Congress of Philosophy, August 12-18, 2003, Istanbul

 

“Soviet Threat, Oil, and the Perceptions of Musaddiq: An Examination of the Driving Forces behind US Foreign Policy towards Iran”, 15th Middle Eastern History and Theory Conference, “Iran in the 20th Century” section, May 2003, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

 

“Early Representations of the Turkic Peoples of Central Asia in Iranian and Greco-Roman Sources”, 15th Middle Eastern History and Theory Conference, “Early Islamic Historiography” section, May 2003, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.