About

Meral Ugur-Cinar (PhD Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2012) is an Assistant Professor at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. She was a Mellon Postdoc at the New School. Her articles appeared in Democratization, Politics & Gender, PS: Political Science & Politics, Political Studies, Political Quarterly, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society, Social Indicators Research, Middle Eastern Studies, Mediterranean Studies, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, and Turkish Studies. A chapter (coauthored with Rogers Smith) can be found in Political Peoplehood: The Roles of Values, Interests and Identities (Chicago University Press). Her book titled Collective Memory and National Membership: Identity and Citizenship Models in Turkey and Austria is published by Palgrave. Meral has been selected as National Center for Institutional Diversity Exemplary Diversity Scholar by University of Michigan and Distinguished Young Scientist by the Science Academy (BAGEP). She is also the recipient of the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award.

Research Interests

Citizenship, Civil Society, Comparative Politics, Contentious Politics, Democracy, Democratisation, European Politics, Gender, National Identity, Nationalism, Political Participation, Populism, Identity, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Qualitative, Memory, Political Ideology

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Comparative Political Institutions
• Democratic Innovations
• Extremism and Democracy
• Gender and Politics
• Mediterranean Politics and Society
• Political Communication
• Political Sociology
• Southern European Politics