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Feryaz Ocakli Feryaz Ocakli

Associate Professor of Political Science

Office: Ladd 315
Phone: 518-580-5246
Email: focakli@skidmore.edu
Website: www.feryazocakli.net

Education:
  • 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:
    • “Notable Networks: Elite Recruitment, Organizational Cohesiveness, and Islamist Electoral Success in Turkey”
      Politics & Society, Forthcoming, September 2015
    • “Political Entrepreneurs, Clientelism, and Civil Society: Supply-Side Politics in Turkey” Democratization, Forthcoming 2015
    • “One Shield, Two Responses: Explaining the Opposition to the United States Missile Defense Shield” (with Yelena Biberman)
      Politics & Policy, Forthcoming 2015
  • Work in progress:
    • Embedded Islamists: Local Elites and Electoral Strategies in Turkey (Book manuscript)
    • “Colonialism and Legal Institution Building in the Middle East”
    • “Oil-Fueled Insurgencies: Lootable Wealth in Syria and Nigeria” (with Matthew Scotch)
    • “Development Policy and Party-Business Relations in Turkey”
  • 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 confererences 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)