Academic Staff

 

Ünsal Doğan Başkır is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Common Courses at Izmir University of Economics, where he teaches ethics, the politics of human rights, the history of philosophical thought, and introduction to political science, as well as a doctoral seminar on philosophy of science and research design. He also coordinates the university's general education. From 2024 to 2025 he was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Political Science at Heidelberg University, where he completed a TÜBİTAK-funded postdoctoral research project on republicanism and taught undergraduate and graduate seminars in political theory.

After earning his bachelor's degree in International Relations from the Faculty of Political Science at Ankara University, Başkır completed his PhD in Political Science at the same institution with a dissertation on Kantian cosmopolitanism. During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Tübingen and Northwestern University, and worked as a research assistant at Izmir University of Economics.

His research interests encompass the history of political thought, contemporary political theory, and theories of republicanism, democracy, and citizenship. His articles have appeared in Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, the European Journal of Cultural Studies, Toplum ve Bilim, Felsefi Düşün, Kaygı, and Mülkiye Dergisi, and he has written essays for Birikim and Ayrıntı Dergi. He has also contributed chapters to the edited volumes Tarihin Hayaletleri Devrimin Vaadi: Mehmet Ali Ağaoğulları'na Armağan (edited by Duygu Türk, İletişim, 2026), Çağdaş Siyaset Teorisi (edited by Muhammed A. Ağcan, İstanbul Bilgi University Press, 2022), and Siyasalın Peşinde: Dünyaya Tragedyalarla Bakmak (edited by Devrim Sezer and Nazile Kalaycı, Metis, 2017). He has been a member of the editorial board of Mülkiye Dergisi since 2019 and its subject editor for political science since 2022.

Lecturer Elçin YILMAZ graduated from Anadolu University, Faculty of Letters, Department of History, and completed her MA and PhD in Dokuz Eylul University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of History. He graduated from the Department of Justice in 2019. He has been working as the Atatürk's Principles and Revolution History Coordinator at Izmir University of Economics since 2015 and as the Head of the Common Compulsory Courses Department since 2019. In İzmir Democracy University and İzmir Institute of Technology, divisions are provided in the fields. He has publications in the fields of History of the Republic of Turkey, American Missionary Activities and Political History.

Born in Erzurum, 1979. She finished her primary and secondary school education in Izmir. In 2005, she graduated from Pamukkale University, Faculty of Science, Department of Turkish Language and Literature. In 2011, she completed her master's thesis "Foreigner's Turkish Learning Abilities" in Dokuz Eylul University, Faculty of Education, Department of Turkish Education. Since 2006 she has been working as a Turkish Language Lecturer at Izmir University of Economics.