Faculty Members

International Relations Theory, European integration, Turkish foreign policy and Turkey-EU relations

Attachment, close relationships, culture, happiness, interpersonal relations, marriage, mate selection, relationship development, responsiveness, social interactions, social psychology, socioecology, well-being

Law, politics, religion and bureaucracy in the early modern Ottoman Empire; Islamic history in general; history of education and science in the Islamic world; history of Islamic manuscripts and libraries

Labour Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Migration, Education, Intergenerational mobility

Ethnicity / Ethnic Conflict, Peace Processes, Civil Society and peacebuilding, Forced Migration, reconciliation, gender and peace

Modern and Contemporary Art; 20th Century Turkish Art; Art and Gender.

Contract Theory, Information Economics, Industrial Organization, Mechanism Design

Economic history; regional growth; inequality; human capital; applied macroeconomics.

Comparative Historical Sociology, Political Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Social Theory, Cultural Sociology

Comparative Politics, Citizenship Studies, Political Ideologies: nationalism, international labor migration, women and Islam, fascism, liberalism.

History of the late Ottoman Empire, history of early Republican Turkey, social history, urban history, modernization, property

Globalization and Health Inequalities, Illness Experiences and Narratives, Gender, Anthropology of Body, Anthropology of Middle East, Refugee and Immigrant Experiences and Narratives,Hate Speech in Social Media, Temporality and Spatiality

Turkish Politics, Political Parties, Civil-military relations, Authoritarian Regimes

Episodic Memory, Autobiographical Memory, Language, Aging

Health Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Economic History

Class, globalization and neoliberalism; Sociology of work; Economic sociology; Urban studies; Infrastructure and mobilities; Men and masculinities; Sociology of gender and sexualities; Turkish Studies.

Theory and Methodology in Visual Communication Design, Branding, Packaging Design, Typography, Visual Aesthetics of Electronic Music, Visual Language & Visual Learning Formats

Group processes and intergroup relations; Intergroup contact; Collective intergroup processes; Self and group efficacy; Social identity; Prejudice and discrimination; Minority groups; Immigration

Economic and social history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey, European-Ottoman (Turkish) encounters and diplomacy, personal histories and ego-documents of the Young Turks (the Unionists and Kemalists), history of migrations in the Ottoman Empire with special focus on the Balkans and Western Anatolia in the late Ottoman period, history of socialisms and nationalisms in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, history of port-towns and port-cities in the Eastern Mediterranean, history of capitalism in the Eastern Mediterranean, democratization in Turkey, comparative world history (special focus on Greece and Turkey), history of technologies (special focus on computer games), theories and methodology in humanities.

Macroeconomics, Monetary policy, Empirical macro-finance

Energy Economics, Real Estate Economics, Labor Economics, Microeconometrics

Working memory, episodic memory, attention, cognitive control.

Urban Economics, Transportation Economics

Industrial Organizations International Trade

Distributive justice, political philosophy of science, trust in science, epistemic justice, freedom of expression

Political economy, computational social science

Parenting, Infant and Child Mental Health, Prevention

Interpersonal relationships, romantic attachment, responsiveness, minimal social interactions, well-being

International Macroeconomics, International Finance

Microeconomics, Economics of Crime, Development Economics

developmental psychology, experimental psychology, cognitive psychology, human-robot interaction, psycholinguistics, language

cultural studies; world literature; popular music; social movements; counterculture; global modernism; Mediterranean Studies; feminist theory; contemporary film and television

contemporary art, environmental aesthetics, art theory, philosophy of technology, new materialism

Anthropology, migration, urban, diversity and gender studies

Theory of games and economic design.

Early Modern Mediterranean History, Early Modern Ottoman Empire, Commercial networks, Port Cities

Electoral behavior, political participation, representation, political polarization, political and survey methodology, comparative politics, Turkish politics

Authoritarian Regimes, Democratization, Political Behavior, Middle Eastern and North African Politics, Religion and Politics, Experimental Design, Survey Analysis, Computational Social Sciences

Art, Photography, Visual Communication Design, Multimedia Design, Interface Design, Architecture, New Media Theory

• Attachment processes and Parenting • Psychological Well-being • Driver Behavior – Transportation Psychology • Personality Traits and Assessment • Effects of Unemployment • Teaching of Psychology

EEG, SSVEP, frequency tagging, perceptual organization, visual neuroscience

Visual-spatial cognition; Visual Imagery; Visualization abilities; Individual differences; Imagery Development; Toys; Play.

Typography, Graphic Design, Type Design, History of Ottoman Typography

Constitutional Reform, Politics of Constitution-Making, Judicial Review, Latin American Politics, International Law, Comparative Judicial Politics

political parties, developing countries, corruption and clientelism

Cognition and emotion; depression; anxiety; future thinking; risk estimation; optimism/pessimism; experimental psychopathology; positive psychology

Sound Design, Digital Art, Multimedia, Interactive Design, Philosophy of Technology, Creativity and Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Painting; sculpture; installation; video; photography; performans, exhibition organisation.

International Relations Theory, Turkish Foreign Policy, Turkey-EU relations, European Foreign Policy, Discourse Studies

Literary theory, modern European and Turkish literature, the theory and sociology of the novel, postcolonial novel, literature and politics, modernism and postmodernism

Ottoman History, Early Modern Period, Mediterranean History, Social and Economic History, Comparative History, Ottoman/European relations, Islamic Law, Long-distance commerce, institutional analysis, Muslim, Jewish, Christian relations, Citizenship

- Digital Animation and 3D Modeling, Motion Graphics, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Art and Design: Fictional, conceptual narratives, and storytelling. - Videography, Photography, and Cinematography: Borderland, climate change, human and nature interrelationship.

Political theory, feminist theory, deliberative democracy, gender and politics, gender equality, women's movements, care ethics and politics