Biography

Ayşe Kadıoğlu is Professor of Political Science at Sabancı University, Istanbul. She has been a faculty member at Sabancı University since 1998. She served as the Acting President of Sabancı University and was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in the same institution between 2016-18 and 2013-17, respectively. She has been a visiting scholar/fellow at Harvard University, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies as well as the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, and Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies at Columbia University. Kadıoğlu has been a part of the Yale Law School’s annual Middle East Legal Studies Seminar since 2004.

She has a PhD in Political Science (1990, Boston University); MA in International Relations (1984, The University of Chicago); Bachelor’s of Science in Political Science (1982, Middle East Technical University).

Her research interests span from migration and citizenship studies, women and migration, comparative dynamics of new authoritarian regimes to comparative nationalisms, political ideologies, the intellectual origins of nationalism and liberalism in Turkey as well as Turkish secularism. Her recent work examines the role of constitutions and laws in the consolidation of authoritarian regimes, particularly focusing on the notion of autocratic legalism. Additionally, she has been researching and writing the biographies of forgotten women of Istanbul against the background of the city at the turn of the twentieth century.

In addition to authored/co-edited books, she has published several articles in Middle East Journal, Middle Eastern Studies, International Migration, Muslim World, Citizenship Studies, Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, Middle East Law and Governance, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Social Research: An International Quarterly, Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, and Women’s History Review.