Ph.D. Candidate
Gizem received her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Sociology from Koç University, Turkey. At Koç University, she was an undergraduate research assistant and worked on Latin American politics, labor-state relationships, and Turkey’s fiscal and monetary policy. Gizem received her Master of Arts in International Affairs with a concentration in International Public Policy from Northeastern University. At Northeastern University, Gizem worked as a research assistant on a grant-funded project related to sanctuary cities in which she transcribed and analyzed data collected via interviews. She was also a graduate teaching assistant in a class on Brexit. At Boston University, she was a teaching assistant for Quantitative Methods I and Data Science for Politics courses. She received an outstanding teaching fellow award in the 2020-2021 Academic Year. Gizem is interested in European Union politics, populism, nationalism, gender politics, and quantitative methods. Her current research analyzes European Union’s response to internal democratic challenges. She was a visiting researcher at the University of Warsaw in Poland from February 2023 to July 2023, where she completed her fieldwork. Her most recent work was published in Nationalities Papers.
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