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I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Central European University's Democracy Institute and a researcher at the Binghamton University (SUNY) Center on Democratic Performance. I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science from Binghamton University. My research focuses on democratic backsliding, populism, polarization, and public attitudes and behavior in Europe and Latin America. I have two primary academic goals: to understand (and help others understand) why populists and the far-right are popular among voters globally and how populists and the far-right affect democratic institutions (particularly the judiciaries) and public attitudes and behavior. I am part of various research projects that focus on these questions in Europe and the Americas. 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.
Previously, I was a researcher at the Johns Hopkins University under the supervision of Dr. Lisel Hintz and a lab member of the COVID-19 Protective Policy Index (PPI) Project under the supervision of Dr. Olga Shvetsova at Binghamton University. I was also the editorial assistant of the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. Broadly speaking, I teach various of courses on regime change, populism and the far-right, identity politics, 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 am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Central European University's Democracy Institute and a researcher at the Binghamton University (SUNY) Center on Democratic Performance. I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science from Binghamton University. My research focuses on democratic backsliding, populism, polarization, and public attitudes and behavior in Europe and Latin America. I have two primary academic goals: to understand (and help others understand) why populists and the far-right are popular among voters globally and how populists and the far-right affect democratic institutions (particularly the judiciaries) and public attitudes and behavior. I am part of various research projects that focus on these questions in Europe and the Americas. 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.
Previously, I was a researcher at the Johns Hopkins University under the supervision of Dr. Lisel Hintz and a lab member of the COVID-19 Protective Policy Index (PPI) Project under the supervision of Dr. Olga Shvetsova at Binghamton University. I was also the editorial assistant of the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. Broadly speaking, I teach various of courses on regime change, populism and the far-right, identity politics, and voting behavior. I am among the co-leaders of OPUS Young Scholars Initiative on Populism and co-founders of Istanbul Political Research Institute.
* Istanbul, where the West and the East meet. Photo Credit: Melih Karaahmet.