Dr. Sercan Canbolat
Fellow
- Ph.D. Candidate (ABD), M.A. (University of Connecticut and Bilkent University), B.A. (Izmir University of Economics)
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Sercan Canbolat (M.A. University of Connecticut and Bilkent University; B.A. Izmir University of Economics) is a Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) in Political Science at the University of Connecticut. He received a Fulbright scholarship for his doctoral studies in the United States.
Sercan is wrote his doctoral dissertation on the patterns of organizational formation and leadership styles of militant organizations in the Middle East and North Africa. His scholarly works are featured and/or forthcoming in International Studies Review, Political Research Quarterly, Polity, Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, and Cambridge University Press. He, and his co-authors, earned the 鈥淧olity Prize鈥 in 2018, which is conferred on the best research article published in the journal’s previous volume. Sercan received the ISA鈥擬idwest Region’s 2020 鈥淢argaret G. Hermann Award鈥 for a paper he presented in St. Louis in November 2019. The paper was entitled 鈥淯nderstanding Extreme Islamists in Their Native Language.鈥 The award is given for the best use of text analysis in leadership studies. Sercan has earned the 鈥淯niversity Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award鈥 from the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Connecticut.