Academic Staff

 

He was born in Izmir. He graduated from Bornova Anadolu Lisesi (Gymnasium in German) in 2001 and from Ankara University, Department of International Relations in 2006. In the same year, he started his Ph.D. in Political Science at Ankara University and awarded the TUBITAK's (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Scholarship for graduate students. He started to work as a research assistant in Izmir University of Economics, Department of Political Science and International Relations in 2008. In 2011, he conducted his doctoral research in Tuebingen Eberhard Karls University under supervision of Prof. Otfried Höffe for three months. In 2012-2013 academic year, he was awarded with TUBITAK International Ph.D. Research Fellowship and spent two quarters at Northwestern University as a visiting scholar under supervision of Prof.Bonnie Honig. He acquired Ph.D. degree in 2015 with his dissertation on the political philosophy of cosmopolitanism. He continues thinking on citizenship, cosmopolitanism, ethics, and contemporary political theory with a particular emphasis on the political thoughts of Hannah Arendt, Jürgen Habermas and Seyla Benhabib.

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.