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Şener Aktürk

Associate Professor at Koç University

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Şener Aktürk is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Koç University. He is a scholar of comparative politics, with a focus on comparative politics of ethnicity, religion, and nationalism. After completing his BA and MA at the University of Chicago and his PhD in political science at the University of California, Berkeley, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Government at Harvard University. His book, Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey (Cambridge University Press, 2012) received the 2013 Joseph Rothschild book prize from the Association for the Study of Nationalities. His articles were published in World PoliticsPerspectives on PoliticsComparative PoliticsJournal of Ethnic and Migration StudiesPost-Soviet AffairsMediterranean PoliticsSocial Science QuarterlyEuropean Journal of SociologyNationalities PapersProblems of Post-CommunismTurkish StudiesMiddle Eastern StudiesOsteuropaTheoriaAb ImperioAll AzimuthInsight TurkeyTurkish Policy QuarterlyCentral Eurasian Studies ReviewPerceptions, and various edited books. He is the recipient of Peter Odegard Award, Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant, Baki Komsuoglu Social Sciences Encouragement Award, Kadir Has Social Sciences Prize, TUBA Young Scientist Award, BAGEP Science Academy Award, and TUBÄ°TAK Incentive Prize.