EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
July 2007-present:
University of California, Riverside, CA
Department of Political Science,
Assistant Professor
October 2006- August 2007:
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Department of Political Science,
Lecturer
September 1999- 2006:
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Department of Political Science,
Ph.D., September 28, 2006
August 1997-May 1999:
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Department of Political Science,
M.A., May 15, 1998
October 1993-June 1997:Koc University, Istanbul, TURKEY
International Relations,
B.A., June 1997, valedictorian
DISSERTATION AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dissertation: Political Salience of Ethnic Identities: A Comparative Study of Tajiks in Uzbekistan and Kurds in Turkey, 2006
Committee: David D. Laitin (Chair), James D. Fearon, Gail Lapidus, Michael R. Tomz
Research Interests: Identity formation and political salience of identities, ethnicity, ethnic insurgence and conflict, secessionist movements, multiculturalism. Central Asia, Turkey, Muslim societies. Political economy of development, institutional choice. Quantitative methods and game theory applications.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Dissertation Fieldwork, Uzbekistan, 2002-2003
Total of 12 months of research in Samarkand, Namangan, and Tashkent.
Department of Political Science, Stanford, CA
Research Assistant, June 2000-May 2002
Project manager for David Laitin and James Fearon's "Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War" project, which coded new cases and variables to expand Minorities at Risk Data.
Department of International Relations, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
Research Assistant, Summer 1996
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Department of Political Science, University of California Riverside, CA
Assistant Professor
POSC 156: Political Systems Across Muslim Societies
POSC202A: Survey of Quantitative Methods (Graduate)
POSC 263: Seminar on Conflict and Peace (Graduate)
Department of Political Science, Stanford University, CA
Lecturer
Spring 2007: Political Systems Across Muslim Societies
Summer 2007: Politics in the Name of Identity
Department of Political Science, Stanford University, CA
Head Teaching Assistant, Autumn 2001
Coordinator for Michael Tomz's Introduction to International Relations class.
Teaching Assistant
Autumn 2001: Introduction to International Relations, Michael Tomz
Winter 2001: Statistical Analysis for Political Science II, graduate level, Douglas Rivers
Autumn 2000: Statistical Analysis for Political Science I, graduate level, James Fearon
Department of Political Science, University of Iowa, IA
Teaching Assistant
Spring 1999: Introduction to the Politics of Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia, Vicki Hesli
Fall 1998: Introduction to International Relations, James Lindsay
Samarqand State Institute of Foreign Languages, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Volunteer English Instructor, July-August 2002
PUBLICATIONS
- The Patriarch and the President: Religion and Political Choice in Russia, Demokratizatsiya, 1999. Coauthored with Vicki Hesli, William Reisinger, Arthur Miller.
Previously presented (with Vicki Hesli) at the 1998 Annual Meeting of Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.
- The Ethnics of Voting, The Review of Politics, vol. 70, issue 2 (Spring) 2008, 329-332. (Book review for Johanna Kristin Birnir: Ethnicity and Electoral Politics)
- Central Asia section in Muslim World Encyclopedia (forthcoming). Brown Reference Group.
WORK IN PROGRESS
- Administrative Legacies, Tribes, and the Kurdish Challenge to Nation-Building in Turkey (in review)
- Socioeconomic Change, Intra-Elite Competition and Political Salience of Ethnic Identities (Contribution for Economic Development Strategies and Inter-Group Violence Workshop at Pacific Basin Research Center, Soka University).
- Democracy Protecting Itself from Itself?: Judicial Intervention and Political Islam in Egypt and Turkey (with Kevin Grisham)
- Islam, Secularism and Gender Equality: Empirical Findings from 1998 Demographic and Health Survey in Turkey
- Effective Mixing, Civil Discourse, and Violent Disintegration: Theory and Comparative Evidence toward an Explanation (with Murat Somer).
PRESENTATIONS
- Islam, Secularism and Gender Equality: Empirical Findings from 1998 Demographic and Health Survey in Turkey, 2009 Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association, September 4-6, Toronto, Canada.
- Democracy Democracy Protecting Itself from Itself?: Judicial Intervention and Political Islam in Egypt and Turkey, 2009 Annual Meeting of Midwest Political Science Association, April 2-4, Chicago, IL.
- Socioeconomic Change and Intra-Group Competition: Political Salience of Kurdish Identity in Turkey, Southeastern Anatolia: Culture, Change and Development in the Forgotten Turkey Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, October 1, 2005.
- Political Salience of Ethnic Identities: Democracy, Patronage, and Intra-Group Competition, 2005 Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association, September 1-4, Washington, D.C..
- Political Salience of Ethnic Identity: An Empirical Study of Tajiks in Uzbekistan, Comparative Politics Workshop at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, May 16, 2004; and 7th Annual Graduate Student Retreat of the Society for Comparative Research, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, July 3-4, 2005.
- Geography of Institutional Choice: Presidential and Parliamentary Systems, Workshop in Comparative Politics and Historical Analysis, Stanford, CA, December 2001.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Turkish (native), English(perfect), Uzbek(fluent), Spanish (intermediate), German, Russian (beginner)
HONORS AND AWARDS
Recipient, Center for Ideas and Society, UCR, Resident fellow (for Spring 2010)
Regents’ Fellowship (2008 and 2009) and Academic Senate Research Fund (2008), Committee on Research, Riverside Division of the Academic Senate, University of California
Graduate Dissertation Fellow, Research Institute in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University, 2004
Graduate Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, 2004 (Declined)
Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, 1999
Graduate Fellowship, University of Iowa, 1997
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND SERVICE
Member, Arabic and Islamic Studies Faculty Advisory Committee, Education Abroad Program, University of California
Steering Committee, Middle East and Islamic Studies Minor, UCR
Member, Search Committee, Department of Political Science, UCR
Member, American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association
Member, Working Group on Ethnicity and Nationalism at UCLA, 2001
Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Political Science, Stanford University, 2005
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