Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Government
Harvard University
Welcome!
I am the Carl J. Friedrich Fellow in the Government Department at Harvard University and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. My research studies democratic backsliding, law and politics, and political polarization, with a focus on Turkey, Israel, and the Middle East.
My book, Democracies Divided: The Global Challenge of Political Polarization, co-edited with Thomas Carothers, was published by the Brookings Institution Press. My writing has also been published by Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Journal of Democracy, the Washington Post, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Center for American Progress, the German Marshall Fund, The Hill, the Istanbul Policy Center, Lawfare, and Verfassungsblog.
At Harvard, I am an affiliate at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Prior to graduate school, I was a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a research fellow at Sabancı University's Istanbul Policy Center.
Democracies Divided: The Global Challenge of Political Polarization (co-edited with Thomas Carothers). Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2019.
[Contents]
[Introduction]
[Turkey Chapter]
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