Feryaz Ocakli
COMPARATIVE POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, MIDDLE EAST, ISLAMIST PARTY POLITICS, COMPARATIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENT WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON TURKEY

Feryaz Ocakli Profile Picture 2012

Contact Information & Background:

Assistant Professor of Government
Model UN Advisor
Ladd 315, Phone: 518-580-5246
E-Mail: focakli@skidmore.edu

Ph.D. & M.A., Brown University
B.Sc., Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
 


Courses:

GO 103: Introduction to Comparative and International Politics
GO 239: Nationalism and Politics in the Middle East

Awards and Fellowships

  • Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Lawrence University, 2011-2012
  • Brown Undergraduate Council of Students Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 2011
  • Smith Richardson Foundation World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship, 2009-2010
  • Brown University Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, 2008
  • Watson Institute for International Affairs Graduate Program in Development Summer Fieldwork Grant, 2007
  • Brown University Graduate Fellowship, 2004-2008
  • Turkish Education Foundation Scholarship, 2002-2004

Professional Presentations 

  • Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL (April 12, 2012)
    "Contextualizing Islamism: Political Agency in Diverse Social Settings"
  • American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA (September 3, 2011)
    “Local Elite Recruitment as a Post-Moderation Islamist Electoral Strategy”
  • New England Political Science Association, Hartford, CT (April 29, 2011)
    “Tribal Elite Recruitment as a Determinant of Islamist Electoral Success”
  • Annual Meeting of the New England Middle East Politics Workshop, Providence, RI (March 11, 2011)
    “Islamist Parties and Clan Networks: Politics of Local Elite Recruitment in the Kurdish Regions of Turkey”
  • Harvard University Middle East Politics Workshop (March 2, 2011)
    “Islamist (Dis)organization: Islamist Party Building in Turkish Industrial Cities” 
  • Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL (April 23, 2010)
    “Islamist Politics and Local Party Strategies in Turkey”
  • Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (November 25, 2008)
    “Moderate Islam and Kurdish Politics: Political Party Strategies in Eastern Turkey”


Analytical Pieces

  • “The Kurdish Closing,” Washington, DC: Foreign Policy In Focus, December 22, 2009.
  • “Unwelcomed Missiles: Washington May Have Compromised with Moscow over MDS in Czech Republic and Poland, but Russia Is Not Fully Backing an Alternative MDS in Turkey,” Moscow, Russia: Russia Profile, December 29, 2009.