Associate Professor of Political Science, Concordia University

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Dr. Belge received her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Washington. Her dissertation, titled “Whose Law?: Clans, Honor Killings, and State-Minority Relations in Turkey and Israel,” received the best dissertation awards of the Law and Society Association and Israel Studies Association. During 2008-2010, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies at Harvard University. Her research interests include nationalism and ethnic conflict, the politics of law and courts, and gender politics. She teaches courses on the Middle East, comparative politics, and ethnic conflict.