Ayça Alemdaroğlu

Ayça Alemdaroğlu

Ayça Alemdaroğlu

  • Research Scholar
  • Associate Director, Program on Turkey

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Biography

Ayça Alemdaroğlu is the Associate Director of the Program on Turkey and a Research Scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. She is also a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). As a political sociologist, Ayça explores social and political inequalities and changes in Turkey and the Middle East.

Previously, she was an Assistant Professor of Sociology and the Associate Director of the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program at Northwestern University. 

She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Cambridge, her MA in political science from Bilkent University, and her BSc. degrees in political science and sociology from the Middle East Technical University. 

She serves on the editorial committee of the Middle East Report. 

publications

Journal Articles
May 2024

Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence: By Jenny White and Illustrated by Ergün Gündüz

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Books
January 2023

Kurds in Dark Times: New Perspectives on Violence and Resistance in Turkey

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Book Chapters
November 2021

Youth Politics (chapter in The Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Turkey)

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In The News

Ayça Alemdaroğlu leads a group of Knight-Hennessy Scholars on a tour of Turkey.
News

Traveling Turkey with Ayça Alemdaroğlu

Ayça Alemdaroğlu, associate director of Stanford's Program on Turkey, explores how national identities are created and how people voice dissent.
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Graphic novel
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Studying Middle Eastern History Through Graphic Novels

A spring quarter course co-taught by CDDRL's Ayça Alemdaroğlu explored how graphic novels convey the visceral realities of living amidst political violence and conflict in a way traditional media struggle to match.
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Ayça Alemdaroğlu
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Ayça Alemdaroğlu Appointed Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute of Oslo

PRIO conducts research on the conditions for peaceful relations between states, groups, and people.
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