Faculty & Staff

PSU FACULTY & STAFF*

Professor Birol Yeşilada,  Director. (Political Science and International Studies)

Professor Pelin Başçı, (Foreign Languages - Modern Turkish)

Professor Evguenia Nikolaeva Davidova, (International Studies)

Professor Grant Farr, (Sociology and Associate Dean of College of Liberal Arts & Sciences)

Professor James Grehan, (Ottoman and Middle East History)

Professor Tuğrul Keskin, (International Studies, Sociology & Sociology of Islam)

Dr. Peter Paquet(Watershed & Wildlife and Resident Fish Management)

Professor Leopoldo Rodriguez (International Studies)

Professor Dannelle Stevens, (Graduate School of Education).

Professor Emeritus Jon Mandaville, (Ottoman and Middle East History)

Mr. Zvi Raanan,  Scholar in Residence (Haifa University, Israel)


Peter Noordijk,  Graduate Research Assistant

Serap Emil, Graduate Research Assistant

Başak Buğdaypιnar, Graduate Research Assistant

 

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Professor Mahir Fisunoğlu, Chair, Department of Economics, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey.  Associate   Director of the Center for Turkish Studies in Turkey (macroeconomics, economic development, mathematical economics)

Professor Fatoş Adiloğlu, Faculty of Communications,Bahςesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey, (Basic Visual Design, Visual Communication, Art, Culture and Society and Visual Culture)

Professor Tozun Bahcheli, Kings College, London Ontario, Canada. (Greek-Turkish Relations, international relations)

Professor Henri J. Barkey, Department of International Relations, Lehigh University, (Turkish politics, Foreign Policy, Middle East, political economy)

Professor Ali Çarkoğlu, Department of Political Science, Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey (comparative politics, voting behavior, public opinion and party politics in Turkey)

Professor Atila Eralp, Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical Univesity, Ankara, Turkey (International Relations, EU-Turkey relations)

Professor Yιlmaz Esmer, Department of Political Science, Bahςesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey and Execuritve Committee of the World Values Survey (Survey research, political psychology, electoral studies)

Professor Ömer Gökçekuş, Professor of Economics, Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University (International Economics and Development)

Professor Ersin Kalaycıoğlu, Department of Political Science, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. (Comparative Politics, Political Development, Turkish Politics)

Professor Kemal Kirişci, Department of Political Science, Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey (Refugee Movements and forced migration, Turkish foreign and secuirty politics, EU-Turkey relations).

Mr. Şevket Numanoğlu,  Manager. The Boeing Corporation

Professor Ziya Öniş, Department of International Relations and Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Koç University, Istanbul Turkey (globalization, political economy of Turkey, EU-Turkey relations)

Dr. Arnold Reisman, (technology transfer, epistemology, meta research, and most recently, the history of German-speaking professors who, starting in 1933, were exiled from their homelands by the Third Reich and found sanctuary and work in Turkey)

Professor Sabri Sayarı, Department of Political Science, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. (Turkish Foreign Policy, Elections and Parties, Political Development)

Professor Kemal Silay, Director, Turkish Studies Program. Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies Endowed Chair, Indiana University (Ottoman literature and poetry, Islamic movements)

Professor Alison B. Snyder, Director of Interior Architecture Program, Department of Architecture, University of Oregon (Ottoman architecture, Israel, Turkey)

Professor Ahmet Sözen, Department of International Relations.  Eastern Mediterranean University, Magusa, KKTC (North Cyprus) (Conflict Resolution, Cyprus politics)

Professor Deniz Tansi, Department of Public Adminsitration, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey (Kemalism, Political Islam)

Professor Erdinç Telatar , Department of Economics, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. (Macroeconomics and Mathematical Economics)

Professor Funda Telatar , Department of Economics, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. (Macroeconomics and Mathematical Economics)

Professor Netice Yιldιz, Department of Architecture, Eastern Mediterranean University, Magusa, KKTC (North Cyprus), (British-Ottoman Cultural Exchanges (1583-1914), Cyprus Medieval and Ottoman Studies as well as contemporary women artists)

*Faculty participation at the Center is on a voluntary basis and does not denote institutional joint appointment. PSU faculty interested in pursuing collaborative activities in Contemporary Turkish Studies can join the Center to further their academic activities.  Faculty from other institutions and private sector companies can join the Center by invitation.

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