HONORS, AWARDS AND VISITING FELLOWSHIPS  

• Visiting (July-September 2016) and Associate Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, September 2016-2017
• Sedat Simavi Prize in Social Sciences, 2015
• Senior Visiting Scholarship, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies, 2013-2014
• Democracy and Development Fellowship, Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS),

Princeton University, New Jersey, 2010-2011

• Sabancı Brookings International Research Award, Third Prize, 2009
• Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, July-Aug. 2011, Aug-Sept. 2009, and Aug-Sept. 2005

• Visiting Fellow, Institute of Governance, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

(with post-doctoral research scholarship from the Turkish Academy of Sciences, Tüba – Dsydab). Aug-Sept 2006

• Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, 2001-2002
• Humane Studies Fellow, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University, Virginia, 1998 - 1999
• Best Graduate Essay, Center for International Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1997
• Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, Office of International Students, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1997