Bilkent University

Academic Staff of Faculty of Economics, Administrative, and Social Sciences

Michelle Marie Adams Professor	Ph.D., Neurobiology, New York University, 2001. Cognitive Neurobiology.
Şaziye Pelin Akyol Assistant Professor (on leave)	Ph.D., Economics. Penn State University, 2014.
Şule Alan Crossley Visiting Professor	Ph.D., Economics, McMaster University, Canada, 2002.
John James Alexander Associate Professor	Ph.D., Political Theory, Trinity College, Cambridge, 2000. Modern political thought.
Jedediah Wilfred Papas Allen Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, Lehigh University, 2012.
Barış Alpertan Instructor	Ph.D., Political Science, Bilkent University, 2020.
Ersel Aydınlı Professor	Ph.D., Political Science, McGill University, 2002. International Relations Theory, International Security and Globalization.
İhsan İlker Aytürk Associate Professor	Ph.D., Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University, 2005. Nationalism, intellectual history.
Evangelia Balta Visiting Professor	Ph.D., History, Sorbonne Paris I, 1983.
Çağlayan Başer Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Political Science, Loyola University, 2020.
Ekrem Taha Başer Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Political Science, University of lllinois Urbana-Champaign, 2020.
Tuğba Bayar Lecturer	Ph.D., International Relations, Otto Friedrich University, Bamberg, 2014. International regimes, security regimes, nuclear non-proliferation, Middle East.
Hakan Berument Professor	Ph.D., Economics, University of North Carolina, 1994. Macroeconomics, monetary economics.
Miri Besken Associate Professor	Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2012. Formal Concentration in Quantitative Psychology.
Hatice Pınar Bilgin Professor	Ph.D., International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2000. Security Studies, Critical International Relations Theory, Critical Security Studies.
Robert Ian Bowers Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Indiana University, USA, 2015. Cognitive Science and Animal Behaviour.
Hüseyin Boyacı Professor	Ph.D., Physics, Bilkent University, 1999. Visual Perception, Cognitive Neuroscience.
Hasan Tolga Bölükbaşı Associate Professor	Ph.D., Sociology, McGill University, 2007. Political Economy, European Politics, Comparative Politics.
Berrak Burçak Della Fave Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, 2005. Ottoman History.
Chae Eun Cho Instructor	Ph.D., Political Science, Vanderbilt University, 2024.
Mehmet Ali Çelik Assistant Professor	Ph.D., University of California, 2024. Davis, Early Modern and Modern Eastern History.
Çerağ Esra Çuhadar Associate Professor	Ph.D., International Relations, Syracuse University, 2004. Negotiations and Third Party Intervention, Foreign Policy Analysis, Political Psychology.
Nuh Aygün Dalkıran Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Managerial Economics and Strategy, Kellog School of Management, Northwestern University, 2012.
Çağla Demir Visiting Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Political Science, Arizona State University, 2023.
Fatma Tahire Erman Associate Professor	Ph.D., Environmental Psychology, City University of New York, 1993. Rural to urban migration, squatter housing and gender.
Onur Erpul Instructor	Ph.D., International Relations, Florida International University, 2019.
Ausaf Ahmed Farooqui Assistant Professor	Ph.D., MRC-Cognition ?amp; Brain Sciences Unit, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, 2011. Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience.
Tore Fougner Associate Professor	Ph.D., International Relations, Keele University, 2002. Global Political Economy, Global Governance, International Relations Theory, Critical Theory, Gender, Labor.
Rodica Eliza Gheorghe Assistant Professor	Ph.D., International Relations, Oxford University, 2014. International Security. International Relations Theory, Nuclear Proliferation, Cold War, US Foreign Policy.
Arda Gitmez Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. Microeconomic Theory, Political Economics, Market Design, Organizational Economics.
Seçil Gönültaş Şahin Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Lifespan Developmental Psychology, North Caroline State University, 2021.
Ioannis N. Grigoriadis Associate Professor	Ph.D., Turkish Politics, University of London, 2005. Turkish Politics, European Politics.
Refet Soykan Gürkaynak Professor	Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, 2004. Monetary economics, financial economics, international economics.
Kevin Edward Hasker Lecturer	Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University, 1998. Auction markets, applied microeconomics.
Caner Hazar Instructor	Ph.D., Sociology, University of Connecticut, 2021. Political Sociology, Social Movement, International Norms, Gender.
Samuel John Hirst Assistant Professor	Ph.D., History, University of Pennsylvania, 2012. Transnational History, Diplomatic History, Russian History, Turkish History, Russian-Turkish Relations, Decolonization, Nationalism.
Hande Ilgaz Associate Professor	Ph.D., Child Development, Lehigh University, 2011. Children's cognitive, language and social-cognitive development.
Başak İnce Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Political Science, University of London, 2008. Turkish politics, Comparative politics.
Esra İşsever Ekinci Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Political Science, Syracuse University, 2019. Comparative Politics, Political Institutions, Electoral Systems and Reforms, Representation, Women and Gender Politics.
Aida Just Professor	Ph.D., Political Science, SUNY Binghamton, 2005. Comparative politics behavior, public opinion.
Daniel Just Associate Professor	Ph.D., Comparative Literature, New York University, 2005. Sociology of Literature, political theory, Cold War culture.
Anıl Kahvecioğlu Instructor	Ph.D., Political Science and Public Administration, Bilkent University, 2022. Social Movements, Pro-government Mobilization, Right-wing Protests, Authoritarianism, Opposition Strategies.
Mehmet Kalpaklı Associate Professor	Ph.D., Turkish Literature, University of Washington/Istanbul University, 1992. Ottoman literature and cultural history, Near Eastern languages and literature, modern Turkish literature, theory of literature, digital humanities.
Ali Hakan Kara Professor of Practice	Ph.D., Economics, New York University, 2002.
Tarık Kara Assistant Professor of Teaching	Ph.D., Economics, University of Rochester, 1996. Game theory, social choice theory, mathematical economics.
Türkan Mine Kara Instructor	Ph.D., Economics, Hacettepe University, 2002. Methodology in economics, history of economic thought, economic development.
Emin Karagözoğlu Associate Professor	Ph.D., Economics, Maastricht University, 2010. Game Theory, Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Neuroeconomics.
Mehmet Nedim Karakayalı Associate Professor	Ph.D., Sociology, University of Toronto, 2003. Social theory, cultural studies.
Kaan Kerman Instructor	Ph.D., University of Turin, Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology. 2021.
Özlem Kına Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Economics, European University, Institute, 2023. Macroeconomics, Public Finance, Heterogeneous Agent Models.
Sırrı Hakan Kırımlı Associate Professor	Ph.D., History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990. Russian and Soviet Studies, History of the Crimea, Volga-Ural Region, and the Caucasus.
Burçin Kısacıkoğlu Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2016. Macroeconomics, Financial Economics, Monetary Economics.
Seçkin Köstem Associate Professor	Ph.D., Political Science, McGill University, 2016. International Political Economy, Regional and Rising Powers, Russia, Eurasia.
Paul Latimer Assistant Professor	Ph.D., History, Sheffield University, 1982. Medieval European history.
Sang Seok Lee Assistant Professor (on leave)	Ph.D., University of Oxford, 2014. Macroeconomics.
Filip Malesevic Assistant Professor	Ph.D., University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 2020. Early Modern, Modern Mediterranean History.
Owen Robert Miller Assistant Professor	Ph.D., International and Global History, Columbia University, 2015.
Bilin Neyaptı Associate Professor	Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland, 1997. Macroeconomics, monetary economics, institutional economics.
Tudor Andrei Onea Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Political Studies, Queen's University, 2010. Great Power Relations; Grand Strategy; Contemporary US foreign policy.
Çağla Ökten Associate Professor	Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University, 1999. Industrial organization, economics of competition and anti-trust, applied microeconomics.
Emine Öncüler Yayalar Lecturer	Ph.D., Sociology, Columbia University, 2013. Social Determinants of Knowledge in Medicine, Science and Technology.
İbrahim Özgür Özdamar Professor	Ph.D., Political Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. International Relations Theory, Foreign Policy Analysis, Decision-making.
Abdürrahim Özer Instructor	M.A., International Relations, Bilkent University, 2008.
Demet Özer Visiting Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, Koç University, 2020.
Onur Özgöde Assistant Professor (on leave)	Ph.D., Sociology, Columbia University, New York, 2015. Economic Sociology, Public Policy Studies, International Political Economy.
İbrahim Mert Öztürk Instructor	Ph.D., History, Ankara University, 2014.
Fitnat Banu Pakel Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Economics, University of Oxford, 2012. International Trade, Industrial organization.
Zahide Pamir Karatok Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Neuroscience, Bilkent University, 2017. Underlying mechanisms of neuroplastic changes in the visual brain in typical and abnormal development occurring as a result of changes in sensory input (e.g., sensory deprivation), or brain injury.
Ju Hyun Pyun Visiting Professor	Ph.D., Economics, University of California at Davis, 2012. International Macro-Finance and Trade, Financial Integration, Macroeconomic Policies.
Hüseyin Çağrı Sağlam Professor	Ph.D., Economics, Universite Catholique de Louvain, 2003. Macroeconomics.
Ezgi Sakman Lecturer	Ph.D., Social Psychology, Middle East Technical University, 2016. Attachment System and its Activation, Functionality of Insecure Attachment in Cultural Context.
Selin Salman Engin Lecturer	Ph.D., Social Psychology, Middle East Technical University, 2014.
Zeki Sarıgil Associate Professor	Ph.D., Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, 2007. Turkish Politics, Comparative Politics.
Gökhan Şensönmez Instructor	Ph.D.,Political Science, Bilkent University, 2022. Social Theory, Turkish Politics, Collective Memory.
Fatma Taşkın Associate Professor	Ph.D., Economics, Boston College, 1987. International economics, macroeconomics.
Mehmet Fatih Tatari Instructor (on leave)	Ph.D., Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Davis, 2023. Worlds of Dairy Farming in Northeastern Turkey: Making Boundaries, Cheeses, Communities and Technosciences.
Nil Tekgül Visiting Assistant Professor	Ph.D., History, Bilkent University, 2016.
Ann Marie Thornton Instructor	M.Phil., French Literature, University of Exeter, 1994. Eighteenth-century France, the Enlightenment.
David E. Thornton Interim Associate Professor	Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1991. Medieval history of the British Isles. Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic.
İhsan Efe Tokdemir Associate Professor (on leave)	Ph.D., Political Science, Binghamton University (SUNY), 2017. Foreign Policy, Conflict Processes.
Berke Torunoğlu Assistant Professor	Ph.D., History, Wisconsin Madison University, 2018.
Timothea Toulopoulou Professor	Ph.D., Neuropsychology, University of London, 2001. Abnormal Psychology, Biological Psychology, Neuropsychology, Schizophrenia, Behavioral genetics.
Meral Uğur Çınar Associate Professor	Ph.D., Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2012.
Emine Ulaşan Özgüle Instructor	Ph.D., Social Psychology, Middle East Technical University, 2011.
Burcu Ayşen Ürgen Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Cognitive Science, University of California, 2015. Multisensory integration, visual perception, computational neuroscience.
Kenneth Weisbrode Assistant Professor	Ph.D., History, Harvard University, 20th Century American diplomatic history.
Crystal Marie Whetstone Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Political Science, University of Cincinnati, 2020. Gender Peace and Security.
Kerem Yıldırım Assistant Professor	Ph.D., International Relations and Political Sciences, Koç University, 2016. Party Politics, Political Behavior, Political Communication, Turkish Politics, Research Methods.
Kemal Yıldız Associate Professor	Ph.D., Economics, New York University, 2013. Microeconomic theory, Mechanism Design, Choice Theory, Matching Theory.
Mehmet Taner Yiğit Associate Professor	Ph.D., Economics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1999. Macroeconometrics, monetary economics.
Mustafa Eray Yücel Lecturer	Ph.D., Economics, Bilkent University, 2005. Applied parametric and non-parametric econometrics, macroeconomics, monetary economics.
Ömer Zarplı Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, 2021. Crisis Bargaining, Conflict, Economic Sanctions, Human Rights.
Luca Zavagno Associate Professor (on leave)	Ph.D., History, University of Birmingham, 2007. Byzantine History, Medieval History.
Ayesha Zia Instructor	Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Karachi, 2019.

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