Ph.D. Recipient; Job Candidate
Areas of Specialization: Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Sociology, Culture and Identity, Political Institutions, Turkish Politics.
Metehan Tekinırk is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Colgate University. He works in the fields of Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Political Sociology and is primarily interested in comparative political culture and institutions. His main research agenda is on populism, nationalism and national identities, and democratic erosion, with an area focus on Turkey and Central and Eastern Europe.
After earning BA degrees in Economics and International Relations (2015) from Koç University in his hometown (Istanbul), he started his professional training at Boston University. There, he completed requirements for his MA (2018) and went on to earn his PhD (2022) with a dissertation problematizing the populism – national identity relationship in present-day Turkey. In AY 2022-2023, he was a Visiting Lecturer at Boston University teaching for the departments of Political Science and Sociology.
Dr. Tekinırk’s research has been published in the Research Handbook of Nationalism (2020), German Journal of Comparative Politics (ZfVP), and EuropeNow. His book manuscript situates the rise of populism in the 21st century within the broader experience with democratic backsliding and offers an empirical study of the Turkish case drawing on elite interviews.
He is a member of the Democratic Erosion Consortium, Team Populism, Association for the Study of Nationalities, and the Northeastern Political Science Association.
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