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I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Binghamton University (SUNY). I am also a Researcher at the Johns Hopkins University under the supervision of Dr. Lisel Hintz. My research focuses on democratic backsliding, populism, identity, and voting behavior in Latin America and Europe. I have two primary academic goals: to understand (and help others understand) why populists are increasingly more popular among voters globally and how populist governments undermine democratic checks and balances. I am part of various research projects that focus on these questions in the Americas and Europe, and I collected election data on 18 Latin American countries to help answer these questions. I have published in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature, Political Studies, Electoral Studies, Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, Frontiers in Political Science, and Turkish Studies.
I am a lab member of the COVID-19 Protective Policy Index (PPI) Project under the supervision of Olga Shvetsova at Binghamton University. Broadly speaking, I teach various of courses on regime change, populism, extremism, and voting behavior. I am among the co-leaders of OPUS Young Scholars Initiative on Populism and co-founders of Istanbul Political Research Institute. I was also the editorial assistant of the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties until recently.
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Binghamton University (SUNY). I am also a Researcher at the Johns Hopkins University under the supervision of Dr. Lisel Hintz. My research focuses on democratic backsliding, populism, identity, and voting behavior in Latin America and Europe. I have two primary academic goals: to understand (and help others understand) why populists are increasingly more popular among voters globally and how populist governments undermine democratic checks and balances. I am part of various research projects that focus on these questions in the Americas and Europe, and I collected election data on 18 Latin American countries to help answer these questions. I have published in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature, Political Studies, Electoral Studies, Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, Frontiers in Political Science, and Turkish Studies.
I am a lab member of the COVID-19 Protective Policy Index (PPI) Project under the supervision of Olga Shvetsova at Binghamton University. Broadly speaking, I teach various of courses on regime change, populism, extremism, and voting behavior. I am among the co-leaders of OPUS Young Scholars Initiative on Populism and co-founders of Istanbul Political Research Institute. I was also the editorial assistant of the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties until recently.
* Istanbul, where the West and the East meet. Photo Credit: Melih Karaahmet.