Ulaş Erdoğdu
Program Area(s): Methods; Comparative Politics; International Relations
Regional Specialization(s): Middle East
Dissertation Title:
Transformation of State Institutions During Civil War
Dissertation Committee: Ana Arjona (Chair); James Mahoney; Wendy Pearlman; Willi Reno
Research Interest(s): Political Violence, Contentious Politics, Civil War, State-Building, Terrorism, Repression, Ethnic Politics And Self-Determination Movements, Political Regimes, Multi-Method Research Design, Data-Reliability In Violent And Authoritarian Contexts, Conflict And Protest Event Analysis.
Publications:
- 2025. Leadership Decapitation in Civil War: Leadership Arrest and the Negotiations between the State and the Insurgents, Review of International Studies (Forthcoming)
- 2024. Democratization, Foreign Military Intervention, and Rebel Fragmentation in Civil War: Evidence from the PKK Insurgency in Turkey, Journal of Global Security, Studies. https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogae030
- 2021. Countries have more than 100 laws on the books to combat misinformation. How well do they work?, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 77:3, 124-128 (DOI) (with Kamya Yadav, Samikshya Siwakoti, Jacob N Shapiro, Alicia Wanless)
- 2021. How COVID drove the evolution of fact-checking. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. (DOI) (with Samikshya Siwakoti, Kamya Yadav, Nicola Bariletto, Luca Zanotti, Jacob N Shapiro)
Conference Presentations:
- Emerging Methodologists Workshop 2024 (invitation only)
- APSA (2022, 2024)
- ISA (2024)
- Peace Science Society (2023)
- Civil War Paths Annual Conference (2023)
- Conflict Research Society (2022, 2023)
- MPSA (2023)
- Global Meeting on Law and Society (2022)
Honors/Awards:
- Honorable Mention for the 2024 Kendra Koivu Paper Award from APSA’s Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section
- 2025 Best Article Award in Kurdish Studies, given by the Kurdish Political Studies Program at the University of Central Florida
- 2024-2025 (Fall, Winter) The Buffett Research Fellowship Program, Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Northwestern University
- 2022-2023 Civil War Paths Fellowship, Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War, the University of Sheffield