{"id":15,"date":"2014-08-30T18:40:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T18:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/dursuno\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2026-08-04T20:22:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T20:22:59","slug":"short-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/dursuno\/short-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Oya Dursun-\u00d6zkanca\u00a0(University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D.) is College Professor of International Studies (Endowed Chair), Professor of Political Science, and Director of Honors Program and the International Studies Minor at Elizabethtown College, PA. She served as a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard University\u2019s\u00a0Weatherhead\u00a0Center for International Affairs in 2021 and a Visiting Fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics in 2013.\u00a0\u00a0Her research interests include Turkish foreign policy, transatlantic security, European Union, Eastern Mediterranean, South East Europe, and peace operations. She is the author of\u00a0two\u00a0new books,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/turkeywest-relations\/B7BA02FDC15C2178EB211D5BB51648AA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Turkey\u2013West Relations: The Politics of Intra-alliance Opposition<\/a>, published by Cambridge University Press in November 2019\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5334\/bcm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Nexus Between Security Sector Reform\/Governance and Sustainable Development Goal-16: An Examination of Conceptual Linkages and Policy Recommendations<\/a>, published as part of the SSR Papers flagship series of the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF) by Ubiquity Press in May 2021. The Turkish translation of her Turkey-West Relations book,\u00a0<em>T\u00fcrkiye<\/em>\u2013<em>Bat\u0131 \u0130li\u015fkileri<\/em>:\u00a0<em>\u0130ttifak \u0130\u00e7i Muhalefet Siyaseti<\/em>\u00a0is published by Ko\u00e7 University Press in Turkey in 2023. She is also the editor of two books \u2013 The European Union as an Actor in Security Sector Reform\u00a0(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 International Affairs, Turkish Politics,\u00a0Foreign Policy Analysis, 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. She received grants and fellowships from\u00a0Georgetown 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),\u00a0Deutscher\u00a0Academischer\u00a0Austausch\u00a0Dienst\u00a0(DAAD), the European Union Studies Association, and the Mellon Foundation (multiple grants), the Elizabethtown College (multiple grants).\u00a0She is the inaugural recipient of the Kreider Prize for Teaching Excellence at Elizabethtown College (2015), and the recipient of the Richard Crocker Outstanding Service to Students Award (2018, 2020), the Ranck Prize for Research Excellence (2022), the Outstanding Honors Professor Award (2025), the Polanowski Prize for Excellence in Faculty-Student Advising and Mentorship (2025) at Elizabethtown College, and the Honors Professional of the Year Award in the Administrator Category (2025) from the Northeast Regional Honors Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Oya Dursun-\u00d6zkanca\u00a0(University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D.) is College Professor of International Studies (Endowed Chair), Professor of Political Science, and Director of Honors Program and the International Studies Minor at Elizabethtown College, PA. 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