Researchers

Dolunay Bulut

ahackett — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 22:08:27 +0000

Dolunay Bulut ahackett Wed, 04/24/2024 - 15:08

Dolunay Bulut earned her PhD in Politics from the New School for Social Research. Her work explores constitutional and democratic theory at the crossroads of politics, law, and sociology, with a particular focus on legitimacy, sovereignty, and authoritarianism in Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East. By analyzing resilient autocracies on the fringes of the hegemonic liberal order, her research provides a critical framework to differentiate these regimes from the broader populist movement.

Before joining the ��ϳԹ��community as a postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Bulut taught courses in comparative politics, modern political thought, and the dynamics of social and institutional transformations at NYU, the New School, and CUNY. Her academic pursuits and teaching reflect her extensive experience in civil society and NGO work, where she specialized in legal transformations and human rights violations concerning religion and education. Additionally, her academic service also included assisting the editorial boards of the academic journals Constellations and Social Research Journal.

Postdoctoral Scholar

dolunaybulut@arizona.edu

Dolunay Bulut CV

Dolunay Bulut

Fatih Erol

ahackett — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 18:17:40 +0000

Fatih Erol ahackett Thu, 09/21/2023 - 11:17

Researcher Scientist - Arizona Policy Lab

ferol@arizona.edu

Fatih Erol

Nahrain Bet Younadam

ahackett — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 22:37:25 +0000

Nahrain Bet Younadam ahackett Mon, 08/08/2022 - 15:37

Nahrain Bet Younadam is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. From 2022-2024, Nahrain was the University of Arizona’s Inaugural Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Government and Public Policy. She completed her PhD in political science from the University of California, Davis, in June 2022 where she specialized in comparative politics and international relations with a focus on non-violent social movements, ethnic politics, and human rights. Nahrain is a Peace Scholar alum at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and an Alumni Fellow in the American Political Science Association's Middle East and North Africa (APSA MENA) section.

Nahrain’s research explores human rights issues, focusing on ethnic minority representation, marginalization, and mobilization. Funded by the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Russell J. Dorothy S. Bilinski Educational Foundation, Nahrain’s three-article dissertation examined consequences of autonomy arrangements on ethnic minorities in federal systems. Her research contributes novel empirical and theoretical insights into the complex and dynamic ways territorial arrangements in divided societies increase access to power for regionally-dominant ethnic minorities while simultaneously posing political challenges for non-dominant ethnic minorities in semi-autonomous regional structures. She has completed multiple rounds of fieldwork research in Northern Iraq, where she explored grievances by ethnic minorities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and developed a new dataset on protest movements by Assyrians in Iraq between 2005-2018.

Nahrain’s projects are currently under review at multiple scholarly journals, including a Revise & Resubmit decision at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nexus (PNAS Nexus).

Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow

nrasho@arizona.edu

Dr. Nahrain Bet Younadam's CV (09/2024)

Dr. Nahrain Bet Younadam's website

Nahrain Bet Younadam