About

Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle; B.A., Bogazici University, Istanbul

A graduate of Bogazici University in Political Science and International Relations, Senem Aslan earned her Ph.D. in the Interdisciplinary Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Washington. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University between 2008 and 2010. At Bates, she teaches courses on Middle East politics, state-building, and nationalism. Her book, Nation-Building in Turkey and Morocco: Governing Kurdish and Berber Dissent, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. She also published articles in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Nationalities Papers, Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics, and the European Journal of Turkish Studies. Her recent research focuses on the use of emotions for mobilization and legitimation in Turkey and the Middle East.

Teaching for Academic Year 2023-24

Fall 2023:
PLTC 205: State-Society Relations in the Middle East
PLTC 311: Emotions and Politics

Winter 2024:
PLTC 265: Performance and Politics
PLTC 333: State Building, State Development, and State Collapse

Other Courses that I Teach:
FYS 400: The U.S. in the Middle East

PLTC 260: Nationalism and Nation-Building
PLTC 262: Politics of the Middle East

PLTC s24: Politics of Imagery in the Middle East