Feryaz Ocakli
COMPARATIVE POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, MIDDLE EAST POLITICS
Contact Information & Background:
Associate Professor of Political Science
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
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Democracy and Political Islam; Islamist and Ethnic Politics; Comparative Political Economy of Development; Middle East Politics
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
鈥淣otable Networks: Elite Recruitment, Organizational Cohesiveness, and Islamist Electoral
Success in Turkey鈥�
Politics & Society, Forthcoming, September 2015
鈥淧olitical Entrepreneurs, Clientelism, and Civil Society: Supply-Side Politics in
Turkey鈥�
Democratization, Forthcoming 2015
鈥淥ne Shield, Two Responses: Explaining the Opposition to the United States Missile
Defense Shield鈥� (with Yelena Biberman)
Politics & Policy, Forthcoming 2015
Work in Progress
Embedded Islamists: Local Elites and Electoral Strategies in Turkey (Book manuscript)
鈥淐olonialism and Legal Institution Building in the Middle East鈥�
鈥淥il-Fueled Insurgencies: Lootable Wealth in Syria and Nigeria鈥� (with Matthew Scotch)
鈥淒evelopment Policy and Party-Business Relations in Turkey鈥�
Non-Peer Reviewed
"Political Parties," The Islamic World: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Society,
M.E. Sharpe, Forthcoming
"The Kurdish Closing," Foreign Policy In Focus, December 22, 2009
"Unwelcomed Missiles" (with Yelena Biberman), Russia Profile, December 29, 2009
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2015 - Sabbatical Enhancement Grant, Skidmore College
2014 - Carrico Family Faculty Enrichment Grant, Skidmore College
2013 - Faculty Development Grant, Skidmore College
2011 - Brown Undergraduate Council of Students Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award,
Brown University
2011 - Travel Grant, American Political Science Association
2009 - World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship, Smith Richardson Foundation
2008 - Graduate School Internal Dissertation Fellowship, Brown University
2007 - Watson Institute for International Affairs Graduate Program in Development
Summer Fieldwork Grant, Brown University
2004 - Graduate Fellowship, Brown University
2002 - Turkish Education Foundation Scholarship, TEV
COURSES
GO 233: Political Islam GO 239: Middle Eastern Politics
GO 347: Making States, Building Democracies
GO 349: States, Markets and Politics in Developing Countries GO 103: Introduction
to Comparative and International Politics
GO 375: Senior Thesis in Government
IA 376: Senior Seminar in International Affairs
IA 101: Introduction to International Affairs
SSP100: Across the Bridge: Turkish Politics in Historical Perspective
SELECTED CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Woodstock, VT (April 25-26,
2014)
Annual Meeting of the New England Middle East Politics Workshop, Burlington, VT (April
4-6, 2014)
Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL (April 3-6,
2014)
Association for the Study of Nationalities Convention, New York, NY (April 18-20,
2013)
Annual Meeting of the New England Middle East Politics Workshop, Waltham, MA (March
1-2, 2013)
Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL (April 12, 2012)
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA (September 3,
2011)
Annual Meeting of the New England Middle East Politics Workshop, Providence, RI (March
11, 2011)
Harvard University Middle East Politics Workshop (March 2, 2011)
Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL (April 23, 2010)
Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (November 25, 2008)
SELECTED INVITED TALKS AND GUEST LECTURES
US Department of State, Washington D.C. (July 23, 2014)
Social Justice Month, Public Address, Skidmore College (November 11, 2014)
Saratoga Reads, Public Address, Saratoga Springs, NY (May 13, 2014)
Newcomb Foreign Affairs Roundtable, Public Address, Newcomb, NY (February 26, 2015
and October 24, 2013)
University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (March 2012)