Ayşe Kadıoğlu
Ayşe Kadıoğlu (PhD, Boston University) has been a Professor of Political Science at Sabancı University since 1998. She was the Acting President of Sabancı University and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabancı 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 historical background of the city at the turn of the twentieth century.
Most recently, she was a Senior Fellow at the Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute. She was a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. She has been a regular participant of Yale Law School’s ongoing annual Middle East Legal Studies Seminar since 2004.
She is the author of numerous articles in the following journals: Middle East Journal, Middle Eastern Politics, 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, Women’s History Review.
She is the author and/or editor of the following books: Cumhuriyet İradesi-Demokrasi Muhakemesi: Türkiye’de Demokratik Açılım Arayışları (Republican Will-Democratic Reason: Search for a Democratic Disclosure in Turkey), (Istanbul: Metis, 1999). Zaman Lekesi (Time Stain), (Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2006). (author and editor) Vatandaşlığın Dönüşümü: Üyelikten Haklara (Transformation of Citizenship: From Membership to Rights), (Istanbul: Metis, 2008, third edition 2022). (co-editor with Fuat Keyman) Symbiotic Antagonisms: Competing Nationalisms in Turkey (Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2011). (co-editor with Kerem Öktem, Mehmet Karlı) Another Empire? A Decade of Turkey’s Foreign Policy Under the Justice and Development Party (Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2012). (co-editor with Olivier Yasar de France, Timothy Garton Ash, Kalypso Nicolaidis, and Paul Betts), Reversing Europe’s Gaze: Perceptions of Power and the Power of Perceptions (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming in 2026). For further details, see Ayse Kadioglu’s webpage.