Expert Profile
- Name:Ebru Erdem
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Topic:
- Public Policy: Egypt
- Title:Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Degree:Ph.D. Stanford University
- E-mail: eerdem@ucr.edu
- Phone: (951)827 5510
- Prefered Media: Print, Radio, Video
Media Contact:
- Bettye Miller
- bettye.miller@ucr.edu
- (951) 827-7847
Background:
Professor Erdem can address possible lessons from Turkey's experience with military regimes and Islamism in its process of democratization. She can also draw comparisons between Egypt and "revolutions" in the post-Communist space. Her current research focuses on different aspects of political Islam, such as the increasing prominence of judicial politics in response to the rise of political Islam in Egypt and Turkey, and problems with gender inequality in the context of secularism in Turkey. She is working on a book manuscript which examines the role of identity politics in the Turkish legislature and party politics.
Recognitions:
Recipient, Center for Ideas and Society, UCR, Resident fellow (for Spring 2010)
Regents Fellowship (2008 and 2009)
Academic Senate Research Fund (2008), Committee on Research, Riverside Division of the Academic Senate, University of California
Graduate Dissertation Fellow, Research Institute in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University, 2004
Outside Activities:
Publications
"The Ethnics of Voting," The Review of Politics, vol. 70, issue 2 (Spring) 2008, 329-332. (Book review for Johanna Kristin Birnir: Ethnicity and Electoral Politics)
Central Asia section in Muslim World Encyclopedia (forthcoming)
Languages Spoken:
Turkish, English, Uzbek, Spanish, German, Russian
