Ayça Alemdaroğlu

Ayça Alemdaroğlu

Ayça Alemdaroğlu

  • Research Scholar
  • Associate Director, Program on Turkey

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Biography

Ayça Alemdaroğlu is the Associate Director of the Program on Turkey and a Research Scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. She is also a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). As a political sociologist, Ayça explores social and political inequalities and changes in Turkey and the Middle East.

Previously, she was an Assistant Professor of Sociology and the Associate Director of the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program at Northwestern University. 

She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Cambridge, her MA in political science from Bilkent University, and her BSc. degrees in political science and sociology from the Middle East Technical University. 

She serves on the editorial committee of the Middle East Report. 

publications

Journal Articles
July 2025

Turkey’s Hard Road to Democratic Renewal

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Turkey’s Hard Road to Democratic Renewal
Journal Articles
May 2024

Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence: By Jenny White and Illustrated by Ergün Gündüz

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Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence: By Jenny White and Illustrated by Ergün Gündüz
Journal Articles
September 2023

The University in the Making of Authoritarian Turkey

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The University in the Making of Authoritarian Turkey

In The News

Protesters chant slogans during a protest march holding Turkish flags
News

Resisting Authoritarianism in Turkey at the Local Level

CDDRL Research-in-Brief [4-minute read]
Resisting Authoritarianism in Turkey at the Local Level
Meet Our Researchers: Ayça Alemdaroğlu
Q&As

Meet Our Researchers: Ayça Alemdaroğlu

Exploring how authoritarian regimes influence identity, opposition movements, and class dynamics with CDDRL Research Scholar Ayça Alemdaroğlu, Associate Director of the center's Program on Turkey.
Meet Our Researchers: Ayça Alemdaroğlu
Ayça Alemdaroğlu leads a group of Knight-Hennessy Scholars on a tour of Turkey.
News

Traveling Turkey with Ayça Alemdaroğlu

Ayça Alemdaroğlu, associate director of Stanford's Program on Turkey, explores how national identities are created and how people voice dissent.
Traveling Turkey with Ayça Alemdaroğlu