Affiliated Faculty
Assoc. Prof. Fatos Adiloglu achieved Fulbright Scholarship towards her professional degree of Architecture at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She completed her master degree at the same university. She earned her Ph.D. in Istanbul University in the Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio-Television-Cinema. She pursues interdisciplinary research in visual studies. She offers courses on Basic Visual Design, Visual Communication, Art, Culture and Society and Visual Culture. She has a book published titled “Visual Encounters in Cinema". Currently she is working as an Associate Professor at Bahcesehir University, Department of Communication Design.
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E-mail: fatos.adiloglu@bahcesehir.edu.tr
Asst. Prof. Zeynep Alemdar is assistant professor of International Relations at Okan University, Istanbul, where she also heads the European Union Research Center. Her research mainly focuses on civil society and governance, a topic of interest since 2001, when she was at the NGO section of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations in NY. Her publications cover a broad range of issues, from the civil society- state- EU relations in Turkey to the privatization of security services. She has worked with NGOs in Istanbul, gave talks in the US, France, and Germany on Turkish politics, Europeanization, and women’s participation to politics. She received her Ph.D. degree in Political Science from the University of Kentucky in 2005 and her MA degree in Diplomacy from the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce from the same university. She holds a BA degree from Galatasaray University. She was a visiting professor at the Center for Turkish Studies and the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government in the summer of 2011.
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E-mail: zeynep.alemdar@okan.edu.tr
Assoc. Prof. Harun Arikan, associate professor of International Relations, is a head of Department of International Relations at Cukurova University where he has been teaching since 2008. Dr. Arikan graduated from Istanbul University; then he received a master degree in European Studies from Manchester University and Ph.D. in International Relations from Birmingham University. Previously Dr. Arikan served as a chair of department of international relations at Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University. He has been a research fellow at the Oxford University; a visiting scholar at University of Southern Maine and Portland State University in USA. Dr. Arikan has been a member of scientific Associations, including Turkish Associations for European Community Studies (TUNAECS) and European community studies Association in Canada (ECSA-C.). He has published a number of books and articles in European integrations, Turkish foreign policy and democratization. Dr. Arikan is currently working on Turkey-USA relations.
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E-mail: harunarikan@hotmail.com
Asst. Prof. Ali Arslan is assistant professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Sakarya University, Turkey. Dr. Arslan has completed both his PhD degree and MA degree at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. Dr. Arslan served as a chair at the Department of Sociology’s Applied Sociology section as well as a vice chair at Sakarya University. Besides his academic career, Dr. Arslan has also worked at ARGEDA (research center for development, training and consultancy-specializing in management consultancy and public opinion surveys) which he owned and managed for 10 years. His research interests include organizational behavior, organizational sociology, management sociology, Islamic sociology and teaching methods of sociology.
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E-mail: aliarslan@sakarya.edu.tr
Professor Tozun Bahcheli, Chair, Department of Political Science, King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario, Canada
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E-mail: bahcheli@uwo.ca
Professor Henri Barkey, Bernard L. and Bertha F. Cohen Professor, Department of International Relations, Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA)
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E-mail: hjb2@lehigh.edu
Professor Ali Çarkoğlu is currently a professor of political science at the Koç University, Istanbul. He received his Ph. D. at the State University of New York-Binghamton in 1994. He previously taught at Boğaziçi and Sabancı universities in Istanbul. During the academic year 2008-2009, he was a resident fellow at The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS). His areas of research interest include voting behavior, public opinion and party politics in Turkey. He has taken part in teams of researchers conducting several surveys of public opinion on political Islam, philanthropy in Muslim countries, corruption, informality, attitudes towards EU membership and voting behavior in Turkey. He is on the editorial board of the Turkish Studies and his publications appeared in the Democratization, European Journal of Political Research, Electoral Studies, Turkish Studies, New Perspectives on Turkey, South European Society and Politics, Middle Eastern Studies, Political Studies and in edited volumes. His most recent book co-authored with Ersin Kalaycıoğlu appeared from Palgrave: The Rising Tide of Conservatism in Turkey (2009). He is currently working together with Ersin Kalaycıoğlu on their new book manuscript Fragile but Resilient: Turkish Electoral Dynamics in Comparative Perspective to be published in 2012.
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E-mail: alicarkoglu@sabanciuniv.edu
Professor Atila Eralp, Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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E-mail: eralp@metu.edu.tr
Professor Yilmaz Esmer, Department of Political Sciences & International Relations, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul
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E-mail: yilmaz.esmer@bahcesehir.edu.tr
Professor Mahir Fisunoglu, Department of Economics, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey
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E-mail: fisunogl@mail.cu.edu.tr
Professor Omer Gokcekus is a professor of international economics and development at the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University. His research interests include the relationship between interest groups and trade policies, economics of embargos, organizational architecture and performance in public sector organizations, the dynamics and effects of corruption, economic development, foreign aid, and wine economics. In addition to publishing articles in journals such as Economics and Politics, Economics Letters, Public Choice, and Journal of Economic Policy Reform, Dr. Gokcekus has co-authored books on public sector governance and performance in Guyana and Bangladesh, and contributed to Transparency International’s Annual Corruption Report on political patronage, gender, declaration of asset laws and regulations and corruption in public organizations. Currently, he is working on the impediments to trade across the Green Line in Cyprus; exploring the role of classic barriers and trust; updating the findings in his book, the economics of isolation of Turkish Cypriots; investigating the issue of compliance and socialization in the European Union with regards to the impact of EU enlargement on levels of corruption; examining the direct wine shipping laws in the US. He regularly teaches graduate courses, International Economics, Development Economics, and Research Projects.
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E-mail: omer.gokcekus@shu.edu
Professor Aziz Inan, Donald P. Shiley School of Engineering, University of Portland
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E-mail: ainan@up.edu
Professor Ersin Kalaycioglu is a Full Professor of Political Science at Sabancı University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and formerly Rector (President) of Isik University, Istanbul, Turkey (2004 – 2007). Prof. Kalaycioglu is a professor of comparative politics and specializes in political representation and participation. He has published on those two fields internationally. He has authored and co-edited four books in Turkish on Comparative Political Participation, Turkish Political Life (co-edited), and Contemporary Political Science (text-book), Turkish Politics (co-edited), and four books in English, one of which he co-edited, called Turkey: Political, Social and Economic Challenges in the 1990s (Leiden, New York, Köln: E. J. Brill, 1995), and authored Turkish Dynamics: A Bridge Across Troubled Lands (New York: Macmillan-Palgrave, 2005), and co-authored with Ali Çarkoğlu of Sabancı University Turkish Democracy Today: Elections, Protest and Stability in an Islamic Society, (London: I. B. Tauris, 2007). Dr. Kalaycioglu and Ali Çarkoğlu of Sabancı University also published a book on the changing characteristics of the socio-political orientations, values and attitudes in Turkey under the title of The Rising Tide of Conservatism in Turkey, (New York, Palgrave – Macmillan, 2009. Prof. Kalaycioglu is functioning as one of the principal investigators in the studies of “religiosity” in 2008 – 2009, “social inequality” in 2009, and Environment in 2010, which conducted as the Turkish applications of the annual surveys of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Prof. Kalaycioglu is currently participating in the “Turkish Election Study 2011” conducted by Ali Çarkoglu of Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, and also conducting the national field survey of the ISSP on Health for 2011 in Turkey as one of the principal investigators with also Ali Çarkoğlu.
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E-mail: kalaycie@sabanciuniv.edu
Assoc. Prof. Turan Kayaoglu, Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington (Tacoma)
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E-mail: turan@u.washington.edu
Professor Kemal Kirisci, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Bogazici University, Istanbul
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E-mail: kirisci@boun.edu.tr
Professor Emeritus Ozay Mehment (Toronto)
Professor Emeritus, Int. Aff/Econ., Carleton University, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
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E-mail: omehmet@ccs.carleton.ca
Sevket Numanoglu, PMP, SSBB, Boeing (Seattle, WA)
Sevket is currently a manager at Boeing Company. He is a PMP (Project Management Professional) and a Mechanical Engineer with master degrees in Political Science and Engineering & Technology Management. In addition Sevket also completed several leadership and quality certifications (Lean Six Sigma and Black Belt). He is currently serving as the President of Turkish American Cultural Association of Washington (TACAWA)
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E-mail: info@tacawa.org
Professor Ziya Öniş is Professor of Relations and the Director of the Center for Research on Globalization and Democratic Governance (GLODEM) at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. Until recently he was the Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koç University. He was previously a Professor of Economics and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. He has written extensively on various aspects of Turkish political economy. His most recent research focuses on the political economy of globalization, crises and post-crises transformations, Turkey’s Europeanization and democratization experience and the analysis of new directions in Turkish foreign policy.
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E-mail: zonis@ku.edu.tr
Professor Oya Dursun-Özkanca is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and the Director of the International Studies Minor Program at Elizabethtown College. She received her Ph.D. in Government at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in International Relations, Comparative Politics, and American Politics. Her research interests include Turkish foreign policy, transatlantic security, Cyprus conflict, Balkan politics, Security Sector Reform, peacebuilding, and comparative political communication. She is the author of multiple scholarly articles in a number of peer-reviewed academic journals, such as European Security, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, and Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center Journal of International Affairs, and Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding (forthcoming, with Katy Crossley-Frolick), Journal of Information Technology and Politics (forthcoming, with Fletcher McClellan and Wayne Selcher) and edited volumes. She serves on the Editorial Boards of Ethnopolitics, Public Communication Review, and International Review of Turkish Studies journals. She currently works on a book manuscript, Changing Balance of Power Dynamics within EU-NATO Security Relations: Comparing the Foreign Policies of the United States, France, and Turkey, together with Colette Mazzucelli.
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E-mail: dursuno@etown.edu
Professor Sabri Sayari, holds BA and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. Upon reaching the age for mandatory retirement, Sabri Sayari was honroed by Sabanci University in a ceremony in 2011 for his distinguished wervice to the university and awarded the title of Emeritus Professor of Political Science. Previously he taught at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service where he also served as the Director of the Institute of Turkish Studies. He was published extensively on Turkish politics and foreign policy. He is the co-editor of Turkey's New World: Changing Dynamics in Turksih Foregin Policy (2000); Politics, Parties, and Elections in Turkey (2002); Policitcal Leaders and Democracy in Turkey (2002); Turkish Studies in the United States (2003); and The Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkey (2012). His recent articles include:
“Challenges of Triangular Relations: The US, the EU, and Turkish Accession,” (June 2011); “Paths to Power: The Making of Cabinet Ministers in Turkey” (with Hasret Dikici-Bilgin) Parliamentary Affairs (October 2011); “Political Violence and Terrorism in Turkey: A Retrospective Analysis,” Terrorism and Political Violence (April-June 2010); “Clientelism and Patronage in Turkish Politics and Society,” in F. Birtek and B. Toprak (eds.) Essays in Honor of Şerif Mardin: The Post-Modern Abyss and New Politics of Islam: (2011); “Regional Security Issues and U.S.-Turkish Relations in the 1980s” in Nur Bilge Criss et.al (eds.), American Turkish Encounters: Politics and Culture 1830-1989 (2011); and “Political Parties,” in The Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkey2012). Sabri Sayari currently serves on the editorial boards of The Middle East Journal, Middle East Quarterly, South European Politics and Society, and Turkish Studies.
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E-mail: sabris@sabanciuniv.edu
Professor Kemal Silay received his M.A. in Turkic Studies from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1990, and his Ph.D. in 1993. In the fall of 1993, he was appointed as Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington in Seattle. In 1997, he returned to his alma mater, Indiana University to become the holder of the Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies Endowed Chair. Throughout his academic career, he has been teaching a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses, from “Islamic Civilization” to “Islamist Jihad”; from “Medieval Ottoman Manuscripts” to “Contemporary Turkish Media.” Among his books are Nedim and the Poetics of the Ottoman Court: Medieval Inheritance and the Need for Change (1994); An Anthology of Turkish Literature (1996); and Ahmedi’s History of the Kings of the Ottoman Lineage and Their Holy Raids against the Infidels (2004).
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E-mail: ksilay@indiana.edu
Assoc. Prof. Alison B. Snyder is Associate Professor at the University of Oregon’s Department of Architecture, and the Director of the Interior Architecture Program. Her scholarship and teaching considers how spatial and cultural issues are inter-related and may be understood and visualized. Snyder’s urban and rural research is mostly located in Turkey where she looks at monumental and everyday sites and conditions to identify how and why people use and contribute to changing their environment over time. Snyder is a licensed architect and received her Master of Architecture at Columbia University, New York City.
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E-mail: absny@uoregon.edu
Assoc. Prof. Ahmet Sözen received his BA from Boğaziçi University (İstanbul) in 1991. He finished his MA in International Relations at Syracuse University (USA) in 1993. He was awarded with PhD in Political Science – International Relations at University of Missouri (USA) in 1999. Previously he taught at University of Missouri, Middle East Technical University (Ankara) and University of Bahçeşehir (İstanbul). Since 2004, Sözen has been a faculty member of the Department of International Relations at Eastern Mediterranean University (North Cyprus). Currently he is the Director of CPC (Cyprus Policy Center – www.cypruspolicycenter.org) – a political think tank in EMU. In addition, Sözen is the Turkish Cypriot Co-Director of the UNDP program Cyprus 2015 (www.cyprus2015.org) which operates under Interpeace (www.interpeace.org). Sözen had been a member of the official Turkish Cypriot negotiation team in the peace talks, as well as a consultant in UNDP sponsored research projects. Sözen’s areas of research include Conflict Resolution and Foreign Policy Analysis. He is a member of International Studies Association (ISA). Sözen frequently appears on both local and Turkish media, as well as international media.
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E-mail: ahmet.sozen@emu.edu.tr
Assoc. Prof. Soyalp Tamçelik is associate professor of International Relations at the Department of International Relations, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey. He was born in Nicosia, Cyprus. He graduated from Gazi University Department of History with high honor degree. He received his master degree in history from Gazi University and International Relations from the University of Ankara. Dr. Tamcelik also holds an EC and International Relations expert degree from Ankara University. He is still working as associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in Gazi University. His research mainly focuses on Cyprus problem, political history of Turkey/Ottomans, political sociology, political institutions, culture structures, EC and security topics of interest since 1993. He participated in inter-communal negotiations about Cyprus, and mentored for Congressman and Ministry in Turkey for a long time. He has published 3 books and nearly 80 articles. The fourth book is in preparation for publication.
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E-mail: soyalp@hotmail.com
Asst. Prof. Deniz Tansi, Department of Public Administration, Yeditepe University, Istanbul
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E-mail: dtansi@yeditepe.edu.tr
Professor Erdinc Telatar, Department of Economics, TOBB Economics and Technology University, Ankara, Turkey
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E-mail: erdinc.telatar@etu.edu.tr
Professor Funda Telatar, Department of Economics, TOBB Economics and Technology University, Ankara, Turkey
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E-mail: funda.telatar@etu.edu.tr
Alan W. Wolfson, Senior Consultant, Parametrix, Portland
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E-mail: awolfson@parametrix.com
