Dilan Okcuoglu

Dr. Dilan Okcuoglu is a Marie-Curie/UKRI research fellow in International Relations at the University of Sussex, School of Global Studies where she is also affiliated with the Center for the Global (In)security Research. Prior to that, she was a Professorial Lecturer and Barzani postdoctoral fellow in Global Kurdish Studies at the American University, School of International Service in Washington, DC. Before that, she was a visiting scholar at Cornell University, M. Einaudi Center for International Studies. Also, she has been affiliated with the Center for Democracy and Diversity at Queen’s University and the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Democracy and Diversity at the Université du Québec à Montréal since 2018-2019. She received her PhD and MA in Political Studies from Queen’s University in Canada. She has another MA degree from Europe (Central European University); finished her undergraduate in economics (Bogazici University). In addition to academic life, she has a keen interest in diplomacy and policymaking. Dr. Okcuoglu has an interdisciplinary background in politics, economics, and philosophy. Her teaching and research interests primarily lie in the politics of MENA, conflict and peace studies, comparative territorial and border politics, democratization, global justice, ethnic politics, and nationalism as well as state-minority relations in conflict zones. Okcuoglu has already published book chapters (Oxford University Press and Palgrave Macmillan) and op-eds (in the Conversation; Peace Insight; Jerusalem Post; Daily News; National Post). She finished the main article from the book project and the article is under review. Okcuoglu gave several talks at universities, such as Harvard, UCLA, Northwestern, Cornell University and more. She has also done consulting in Washington DC and engaged in policymaking and diplomacy.