Ayşe Kadıoğlu's

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• 2026-27 academic year: Sakıp Sabancı Visiting Professor at Columbia University, Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies, Department of Political Science, Columbia University, New York City

• since 9.2026 Professor Emeritus, Sabancı University, Istanbul

• 1998-2026: Professor of Political Science, Sabancı University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Istanbul (Associate Professor between 1.1998-3.2009, Professor after 3.2009)

• 10.2016-1.2018: Acting President, Sabancı University, Istanbul

• 9.2013-10.2017: Dean, Sabancı University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Istanbul

• since 9.2023: Chair of the Awards Committee of the International Hrant Dink Awards, Hrant Dink Foundation, Istanbul

• since 5.2023: Advisory Board Member, Sabancı University, Istanbul, SU Gender (Gender and Women's Studies Center for Excellence)

• 2016-2026: Advisory Board Member, Columbia University Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies, New York City

• since 2011: Advisor for the online network Free Speech Debate.

• since 9.2010: Senior Scholar, Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University, Istanbul, Mercator Stiftung Initiative

• 2004-2026: Participant, Middle East Legal Studies Seminar (MELSS) organized annually by the Yale Law School, New Haven, CT 

• 2.2025-6.2025: Senior Fellow, Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute, Florence

• 9.2019-7.2020:  Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies, New York City

• 1.2019-1.2020: Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Cambridge, MA

• 1.2018-1.2019: Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Cambridge, MA

• 9.2013-1.2018: Board of Trustees Member, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul

• 9.2013-1.2018: Executive Board Member, Education Reform Initiative, Sabancı University, Istanbul

• 10.2016-1.2018: Executive Board Member, Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University, Mercator Stiftung Initiative, Istanbul

• 2010-until the completion of the program in 2013: Advisory Board Member, The Bucerius PhD Scholarship Program in Migration Studies, Zeit Stiftung, Hamburg

• 10.2011-10.2015: Deputy Member of the Board of Directors, Hrant Dink Foundation, Istanbul

• 10.2010-5.2011: Member of Advisory Group (Group of Eminent Persons), Co-authored the report “Living Together: Combining Diversity and Freedom in 21st Century Europe,” Council of Europe, Strasbourg

• 2009, 2011, 2012: Member of the Organizing Committee, Hrant Dink Memorial Workshop, Sabancı University, Istanbul

• 10.2009-6.2010: Sabancı Fellow at the University of Oxford, European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford

• 10.2005-12.2005: Visiting Scholar and Senior Associate Member, University of Oxford, Southeast European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX), St Antony’s College, Oxford

• 11.2005-12.2005: Visiting Scholar, University of Westminster, Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD), London

• 9.1990-12.1997: Assistant Professor, Bilkent University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Ankara

• 3.1994 (March 12-19) Salzburg Seminar Fellow, Session 311, “Is Europe Losing Its Way,” Salzburg

• 2.1992-6.1992: Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, Center for European Studies, Stanford, CA

• 1.1989-5.1989: Lecturer, Tufts University, Department of Political Science, Medford, MA; Instructor, Boston University, Metropolitan College, Boston, MA

• 9.1985-12.1988: Teaching Fellow, Boston University, Department of Political Science, Boston, MA

• 1.1988-5.1988: Lecturer, Tufts University, Experimental College, Medford, MA

• 5.1988-7.1988, 5.1987-7.1987, 7.1986-9.1986: Instructor, Boston University Summer School, Boston MA