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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