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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents
Tuğba Bozçağa
Lecturer in Politics (Political Methodology), King's College London; Fellow, Harvard University Middle East Initiative
Discussant: Aytuğ Şaşmaz, Post-doctoral fellow, Stanford Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
Due to illness, this event has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled for spring semester.
Tuğba Bozçağa is an Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Politics & Political Methodology at King's College London and a Fellow at Harvard University's Middle East Initiative. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Middle East Initiative at Harvard University’s Kennedy School. She completed my PhD in 2020 in the Department of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests lie in comparative political economy and political economy of development, with a substantive focus on local governance, bureaucracy, distributive politics, social welfare, and migration. She studies her research questions in the Middle East context by triangulating quasi-experimental statistical designs, novel data sources, and hypotheses and research designs informed by fieldwork and archival research.
Her work has been awarded Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Prize (Honorable Mention) from APSA Political Economy Section, Weber Best Conference Paper Award from APSA Religion and Politics Section, Best Comparative Policy Paper Award from APSA Public Policy Section, and Best Paper Awards from APSA MENA Politics Section. Her research has been supported by the Harvard Data Science Initiative, Program on Governance and Local Development and MIT Center for International Studies. She is a Junior Fellow at the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS). She completed her BA in Economics at Bogaziçi University and her MA at Central European University, with a fellowship from the Open Society Foundations. Prior to coming to MIT, she worked as a public official at the Turkish state, in the design and evaluation of various civil society and local government projects and programs.
Contact: Liz Flanagan