Visiting Scholars
Gianfranco Bria
Visiting Scholar 2025-2026, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow (MSCA) and Assistant Professor at Roma Tre University.
Executive Committee
Faculty Members
Staff
Advisory Board
Türküler Işıksel
Director, Sakip Sabanci Center for Turkish Studies, Associate Professor (with tenure) of Political Science
SSC Postdoc
Bengisu Zeynep Ertuğrul
SSC Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025-2026
Visiting Scholars
Begüm Özden Fırat
Former Visiting Scholar 2024-2025, Professor at the Department of Sociology in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul.
SSC Postdoc
Visiting Scholars
Murat İplikçi
SSC Former Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023-2024. SSC Former Visiting Scholar 2024-2025
Visiting Scholars
Özgün Kabacaoğlu
Former Visiting Scholar 2024-2025, PhD Candidate in History Department at Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir
Advisory Board
Visiting Scholars
Visiting Professors
Ayşe Kadıoğlu
Sakıp Sabancı Visiting Professor, 2026-2027; Former Sakıp Sabancı Visiting Scholar 2019-2020; Professor of Political Science, Sabancı University
SSC Postdoc
Meriç Tanık
SSC Former Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024-2025
Faculty Members
Nadia Abu El-Haj
Professor, Anthropology, Barnard College
Executive Committee
Zainab Bahrani
Edith Porada Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art History and Archaeology; Chair, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Art History & Archaeology
Faculty Members
Zainab Bahrani
Edith Porada Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art History and Archaeology, Department of Art History & Archaeology
Faculty Members
Elazar Barkan
Professor of International and Public Affairs; Director, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, School Intl & Public Affairs
Faculty Members
Claudia Breger
Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Department of Germanic Languages
Advisory Board
İpek Cem Taha
Director, Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul
Faculty Members
Yinon Cohen
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi Professor of Israel and Jewish Studies, Department of Sociology
Associate Faculty Members
Ihsan Colak
Lecturer, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Faculty Members
Victoria De Grazia
Moore Collegiate Professor of History, Department of History
Visiting Professors
Edhem Eldem
Former Sakıp Sabancı Visiting Professor, 2024-2026
Faculty Members
Advisory Board
Timothy M. Frye
Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy, Dept of Political Science
Faculty Members
John Huber
Professor of Political Science
Executive Committee
Valentina B. Izmirlieva
Professor of Slavic Languages, Department of Slavic Languages
Faculty Members
Valentina B. Izmirlieva
Professor of Slavic Languages; Director of Harriman Institute, Department of Slavic Languages
Faculty Members
Rashid Khalidi
Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies and Literature and Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Department of History
Executive Committee
Faculty Members
Holger Klein
Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor of Medieval Art History
SSC Fellows
Nancy Ko
SSC Dissertation Fellow, Fall 2025
Faculty Members
John Tachiang Ma
Professor of Classics; Chair, Department of Classics
Advisory Board
Meltem Müftüler-Baç
Dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Professor of International Relations, & Jean Monnet Chair, Sabancı University
Executive Committee
Faculty Members
A. Tunç Şen
Assistant Professor of History, Department of History
Executive Committee
Faculty Members
Neslihan Senocak
Associate Professor of History, Department of History
Faculty Members
Aziza Shanazarova
Assistant Professor of Religion, Department of Religion
Faculty Members
Jack Snyder
Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science
SSC Fellows
Doha Tazi-Hemida
SSC Dissertation Fellow, Fall 2025
Faculty Members
Nadia Urbinati
Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies, Dept of Political Science
Advisory Board
Miguel S. Urquiola
Professor of Economics and of International and Public Affairs; Dean of Social Sciences in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Department of Economics
Executive Committee
Faculty Members
Alison M. Vacca
Gevork M. Avedissian Associate Professor of Armenian History and Civilization, MESAAS
Faculty Members
Karen Van Dyck
Kimon A. Doukas Professor of Hellenic Studies, Department of Classics
Faculty Members
Andreas Wimmer
Lieber Professor of Political Philosophy, Department of Sociology
Staff
Sümeyye Yar
Associate Director of Academic Administration, Sakip Sabanci Center for Turkish Studies
Faculty Members
Konstantina Zanou
Associate Professor of Italian, specializing in Mediterranean Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies Department of Italian
Visiting Professors
Zeynep Çelik
Former Sakıp Sabancı Visiting Professor, 2021-2024
Visiting Scholars
Emre Hatipoğlu
Former Visiting Scholar 2018-2019, Associate Professor of Political Science, Coordinator European Studies Program, Sabancı University
SSC Fellows
Yasemin Akcaguner
SSC Former Dissertation Fellow, Spring 2025
SSC Fellows
Affiliate Members
Erik Aldritch Charlemagne Blackthorne-O'Barr
SSC Former Dissertation Fellow, Spring 2025
SSC Fellows
Ararat Şekeryan
SSC Former Dissertation Fellow, Spring 2025
SSC Fellows
Ali M. Ugurlu
SSC Former Dissertation Fellow, 2023-24
SSC Fellows
Nader Atassi
SSC Former Dissertation Fellow, Spring 2023
SSC Fellows
Nada Khalifa
SSC Former Dissertation Fellow, Spring 2023
SSC Postdoc
postdoctoral fellows
Ayşe Polat
SSC Former Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023-2024
SSC Fellows
Deborah Sokolowski
SSC Former Dissertation Fellow, Spring 2022
SSC Fellows
Joshua Donovan
SSC Former Dissertation Fellow, 2021-2022
SSC Postdoc
Fırat Kurt
SSC Former Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-2021
SSC Fellows
Zeinab Azarbadegan
SSC Former Dissertation Fellow, 2020-2021
SSC Fellows
Matthew Gillman
SSC Former Dissertation Fellow, 2020-2021