Dersu Tanca, PhD

Dersu Ekim Tanca earned his PhD from the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University (GMU). His recent publications have appeared in various journals, such as the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, and Human Rights Quarterly. His research interests encompass Turkish politics, European Union (EU) politics, Turkey-EU relations, comparative democratization, authoritarianism, and right-wing populism.

Awards

• George Mason University (GMU) Political Science Outstanding Doctoral Student Award ($1000) 2024 
• GMU Spring 2024 Dissertation Completion Grant ($11000) 2024 
• George Mason University (GMU) MPSA Conference Fellowship ($800, $1000, $1200) 2022, 2023, and 2024 
• George Mason University (GMU) Daniel Druckman Fellowship: $4,000 stipend for research 2021

Publications

Tanca, D. E. (2024). Subnational Regime Variation in Turkey: How the Kurdish-populated Region Complicates Turkey’s Regime Type. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857. 2024.2305786

Tanca, D. E. (2021). Scale and Complexity in Political Economy: A Question of Liberty. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 52 (1): 69–91. Co-authored with Hilton Root, Joseph A.E. Shaheen, and James Vizzard. https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_01664

Tanca, D. E. (2020).The Political and Economic Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Turkey. Edam: Istanbul. Co-authored with Efe Aydog,  Anna Murphy, and Öykü Zincirlioglu. https://edam.org.tr/ wp-content/uploads/2020/11/The-Political-and-Economic-Impact-of-the-Corona-Virus-in-Turkey.pdf

Tanca, D. E. (2020). Nonviolence Both as an Ethical Obligation and a" Realistic" Practice Against Hegemony: Critical Review of Butler. Human Rights Quarterly, 42(4), 980-986. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/773453/ summary