I am the College Professor of International Studies (Endowed Chair), Professor of Political Science, and the Director of the Honors Program and the International Studies Minor at Elizabethtown College. My research interests include Turkish foreign policy, transatlantic security, European Union, Eastern Mediterranean, South East Europe, and peace operations. I am the author of two recent books – Turkey–West Relations: The Politics of Intra-alliance Opposition, published by Cambridge University Press in 2019, and The Nexus Between Security Sector Reform/Governance and Sustainable Development Goal-16: An Examination of Conceptual Linkages and Policy Recommendations, published as part of the SSR Papers flagship series of the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF) by Ubiquity Press in 2021. The Turkish translation of my Turkey-West Relations book, Türkiye–Batı İlişkileri: İttifak İçi Muhalefet Siyaseti (2023), is just out by Koç University Press in Turkey. I am also the editor of two books – The European Union as an Actor in Security Sector Reform (Routledge, 2014) and External Interventions in Civil Wars (co-edited with Stefan Wolff, Routledge, 2014) as well as a number of scholarly articles in leading peer-reviewed journals, such as Foreign Policy Analysis, Turkish Politics, Civil Wars, European Security, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, French Politics, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, and Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, among others, and chapters in various edited volumes.
I received grants and fellowships from, among others, Georgetown University, the London School of Economics, the European Commission (multiple grants), the American Political Science Association (APSA), the University of Texas at Austin (multiple fellowships), Deutscher Academischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), the European Union Studies Association, the Mellon Foundation (multiple grants), and the Elizabethtown College (multiple grants). I serve on the Editorial Boards of Ethnopolitics, International Review of Turkish Studies, and Public Communication Review. I have extensive teaching experience internationally, as I taught at various universities in the US, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine, and Kosovo. I teach introductory courses on International Relations, Comparative Politics, Middle East Politics, and Arab Spring, as well as upper division courses on US-Turkey Relations, Political Violence and Terrorism, the European Union, and the United Nations. I am the inaugural recipient of the Kreider Prize for Teaching Excellence (2015), the Richard Crocker Outstanding Service to Students Award (2018, 2020), and the Ranck Prize for Research Excellence (2022) at Elizabethtown College. I was on a sabbatical as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in Fall 2021. I am currently working on my next book manuscript on the Eastern Mediterranean regional balance of power and implications for transatlantic security.