Ceren Belge, PhD
- Associate Professor, Political Science
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Sign in to editResearch areas: Nationalism and ethnic conflict, authoritarianism, Middle East and comparative politics.
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Biography
Ceren Belge's research interests include nationalism, ethnic conflict and violence; authoritarianism; the politics of law and courts; and gender politics, focusing mainly on Turkey. Her research has been published in Comparative Politics, World Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and International Journal of Middle East Studies. Before coming to Concordia, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies at Harvard University in 2008-2010. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Washington (Seattle) and is a proud alumna of Bogazici University in Turkey, where she completed her undergraduate degree.
Research interests
Comparative politics, state formation, nationalism, violent conflict, authoritarianism, law and courts, gender.
Teaching activities
POLI 203 Introduction to Comparative Politics
POLI 395 Politics of the Middle East
POLI 487Y Authority & Protest in the Middle East
POLI 487Z Women & Gender in the Middle East
POLI 657 Nationalism and Ethnicity
POLI 801 Comparative Politics Graduate Seminar
Selected publications
Belge, Ceren, and Ekrem Karakoc. 2015. "Minorities in the Middle East: Ethnicity, Religion and Support for Authoritarianism." Political Research Quarterly 68 (2): 280-292. doi 10.1177/1065912915580627
Belge, Ceren, and Lisa Blaydes. 2014. “Social Capital and Dispute Resolution in Informal Areas of Cairo and Istanbul.” Studies in Comparative International Development 49 (4): 448-476. doi: 10.1007/s12116-014-9165-z.
Belge, Ceren. 2013. “‘Seeing the State’: Kinship Networks and Kurdish Resistance in Early Republican Turkey.” In The Everyday Life of the State: Developments in the State-in-Society Approach, edited by Adam J. White, 14-28. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013.
Belge, Ceren. 2011. “State Building and the Limits of Legibility: Kinship Networks and Kurdish Resistance in Turkey.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 43 (1): 95-114.
Belge, Ceren. 2009. “From Expert Rule to Bureaucratic Authority: Governing the Bedouin.” Israel Studies Forum 24 (1): 82-108.
Belge, Ceren. 2006. “Friends of the Court: The Republican Alliance and Selective Activism of the Constitutional Court of Turkey.” Law and Society Review 40 (3): 653-92.