Doctorants

Dilan Okcuoglu

Adresse courriel 

8do@queensu.ca

Langues parlées et écrites 

English, French (beginner), Kurdish (speaking: beginner ; comprehension : good), Turkish

Spécialités 

Political Studies (Comparative Politics and Political Theory)

Intérêts de recherche

Comparative Territorial Politics ; Middle Eastern Politics (specifically Kurdish case) ; Democratization ; Conflict management and peace-making ; Nationalism ; Self-determination ; Politics of Borders and Borderlands ; Political Geography.

Affiliations professionnelles 

  • American Political Science Association (APSA)
  • International Political Science Association (IPSA)

Formation académique

  • PhD. Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University, (Defense date: July 2018) Dissertation: “Territorial Control and Democratization in Turkey: A Political Ethnography of Kurdish Borderlands” (Margaret Moore and Zsuzsa Csergo, co-supervisors)
  • M.A., Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University (2009) (Thesis Title: Democracy and Domination in Turkey: A Case Study of the Kurds)
  • M.A., Department of Political Science, Central European University (2007) (Thesis Title: Morality of Secession: A Normative Evaluation of the Kurdish Question in Turkey)
  • M.A., Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Middle East Technical University (2006), (Completed coursework)
  • B.A., Department of Economics, Bogazici University (2004)

Bourses et distinctions :

  • Ban Righ Women Center, Personal Development Grant, 2016-2017 (1000 CAD)
  • Ban Righ Women Center, The Helen Richards Campbell Award, 2016 (2115 CAD)
  • Mitacs Globalink Research Award, Canada, 2015-16 (5 000 CAD)
  • Accommodation and Travel Grant by British Council, Turkey, 2015 (1000 CAD)
  • International Development and Research of Canada (IDRC), Doctoral Research Award, 2013 (17 000 CAD)
  • MESA Travel Grant, 2014 (Declined due to emergency situation)
  • Open Society Institute in Istanbul, Conference Travel Grant, Spring 2013 (Appr. 1000 Dollars)
  • Queen’s University, Dean’s Travel Grants, 2012-13 (3 000 CAD)
  • Queen’s University, Departmental Grants for the Field Work, (2 500 CAD) Queen’s Graduate Award, 2008-2013, (100 000 CAD)
  • International Tuition Fee Award, 2008-2013 (25 000 CAD)
  • Queen’s University, General Bursary, 2008-2011 (6 000 CAD)
  • Queen’s University, Ban Righ Women Centre, Short Term Grant, 2012 (750 CAD)
  • Queen’s University, Ethnicity and Democratic Governance Project (EDG), Summer school scholarship on “Secession and Self-determination” in Guadalajara, Mexico, 2011 (approx. 3000 euro)
  • Full Scholarship, Central European University, 2006-2007 (18 000 EURO)
  • Kokkalis Foundation, Harvard Kennedy School, Yale University summer school on “War, Identity and Conflict”, Athens-Greece, July 2007 (500 EURO)

Publications pertinentes

Book Chapters

  • “Rethinking Democracy and Autonomy through the case of Kurdish Movement” (forthcoming in 2019) invited to the following book:Democratic Autonomy edited by Ephraim Nimni and Elcin Aktoprak in the series on Comparative Territorial Politics edited by Michael Keating. London: Palgrave MacMillan.

Journal Articles

  • “Representation of Kurdishness in the Turkish Academia: A Quest for the Ethical Principles of Spatial Justice”, Birikim, 321 (Ocak 2016): 108-115. (A peer-reviewed journal published in Turkish);

Review Article (in progress)

  • Review Article for Ethnopoliticson Divided Nations and European Integration, edited by Brendan O’Leary, John McGarry, Margaret Moore and Tristen James Mabry, UPENN Press (2013).
  • Power Sharing in Deeply Divided Places, edited by Joanne McEvoy and Brendan O’Leary, UPENN Press (2013).
  • Asymmetric Autonomy and the Settlement of Ethnic Conflicts edited by Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs, UPENN Press (2010).

Book Review

  • Hardi, Choman. Gendered Experiences of Genocide (London: Ashgate, 2011), International Feminist Journal of Politics, vol. 15 No. 1, (Jan. 2103).
  • Ozar, Semsa, Handan Caglayan and Ayse Tepe. Ne Degisti? Kurt Kadinlarinin Zorunlu Goc Deneyimi (What Changed? Experiences of Kurdish Women on Forced Migration) (Ankara: Ayizi Kitap, 2011), International Feminist Journal of Politics, vol. 15 No. 3, (Sept. 2013).

Op-Ed

Newspaper Articles