This dissertation concerns two interrelated areas of cultural policy in Turkey: the curation of an official broadcast repertoire of folk music at the state broadcasting …
“Classrooms Abroad” examines the distinctive role of education in shaping relationships between Americans and the peoples of the (post-)Ottoman Middle East in the early part …
This paper seeks to explain the regime variation between the two cases of neoliberal populism: Peru under Fujimori and Turkey under Erdogan. To do so, …
This dissertation examines how Islamist parties mobilize new constituencies after they join elections. Existing studies have focused extensively on macro-social factors to explain the growth …
This dissertation lies at the intersection of anthropology of sport and anthropology of ethics. I study football (soccer) in Istanbul to posit fairness as a …
This dissertation examines why and how states create irregular military units. Security is conventionally viewed as the state’s quintessential and exclusive domain. Centralization, bureaucratization, and …
Through an analysis of documents from Ottoman and American state archives, newspaper and journal publications, and non-governmental organization reports from the period 1878 to 1928, …
Countries around the world routinely adopt restrictive morality policies—non-economic, value-based issues such as abortion, LGBTQI+ rights, and religious education—thereby curtailing the rights of already marginalized …
What explains the subnational variation in human capital formation policies across Turkey and Argentina as manufacturing companies based in these countries switched from older to …
A project originating from a large-scale research paper in 2014, The Politics of Ambiguity explores the ambiguous networks of Turkish society and social movements in …
Since the Cold War, voting from abroad (VFA) has proliferated rapidly. This thesis asks what affects changes in countries’ VFA policies. Rather than reject current …