Ulaş Erdoğdu
Program Area(s): Methods; Comparative Politics; International Relations
Regional Specialization(s): Middle East
Dissertation Title:
Rebel Social Origins and Dynamics of Civil War
Dissertation Committee: Ana Arjona (Chair); James Mahoney; Wendy Pearlman; Willi Reno
Research Interest(s): Substantive: Political violence, state-building, civil war, terrorism, contentious politics and social movements, security studies, political regimes Methodological: Multi-method research design, conflict and protest event collection and analysis, conceptualization, operationalization, theory development, case selection, data reliability issues in violent and authoritarian contexts
Publications:
- Forthcoming. Do Protest Bans Make Police Repression More Acceptable? Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Legal Repression from Turkey, Journal of Peace Research (With Mert Arslanalp and Deniz Erkmen)
- 2026. Ayaklanma literatüründen notlar: Bir devir kapanırken PKK’ya karşılaştırmalı bir bakış, Birikim, 443, 20-35
- 2025. Leadership Decapitation in Civil War: Leadership Arrest and the Negotiations between the State and the Insurgents, Review of International Studies. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026021052510106X
- 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:
- Eurasian Peace Science Society Conference (2026)
- Madrid Empirical Social Sciences Conference (2025)
- Turkish Political Science Association Conference (2024)
- 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:
- Shortlisted for the the 2026 Cedric Smith Prize awarded by the Conflict Research Society
- 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