Welcome! I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, where I have taught since 2011. I work in contemporary political theory and much of my scholarship focuses on the complex relationship between constitutional democracy and international institutions. I am also interested in the evolution of ideas about commerce and international politics, as well as democratic theory, sovereignty, human rights and citizenship, cosmopolitanism, and Turkey-E.U. relations. I earned my PhD in Political Science from Yale University and my undergraduate degree from the University of Edinburgh. Prior to joining the Political Science faculty at Columbia, I held a Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Global Governance Program at the European University Institute in Florence. I have served as a Perkins Fellow at Princeton University's Law and Public Affairs Program (2014-2015), an Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice at NYU School of Law (Fall 2015), a visiting research fellow at the Justitia Amplificata Centre for Advanced Studies at Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt-am-Main (Summer 2015), and as a Fellow at the Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Most recently, I was proud to serve as the Neil MacCormick Fellow in Legal Theory at NYU School of Law (2023-2024), having once interned at MacCormick's constituency office during his tenure as an MEP.
Since July 2025, I have been serving as the Director of the Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies at Columbia University. I am currently also a member of the Provost's Advisory Committee on Academic Freedom. From 2021 to July 2025, I was the Deputy Chair of the Political Science Department, with responsibility over curriculum matters. I am also an affiliated faculty member (by courtesy) at Columbia Law School. I sit on the board of the Wenner-Gren Foundation and am a former president of the European Youth Parliament.
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Click here for my for my 2023 Convocation Address to Columbia's graduating PhD class (starting around 14:00).
Welcome! I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, where I have taught since 2011. I work in contemporary political theory and much of my scholarship focuses on the complex relationship between constitutional democracy and international institutions. I am also interested in the evolution of ideas about commerce and international politics, as well as democratic theory, sovereignty, human rights and citizenship, cosmopolitanism, and Turkey-E.U. relations. I earned my PhD in Political Science from Yale University and my undergraduate degree from the University of Edinburgh. Prior to joining the Political Science faculty at Columbia, I held a Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Global Governance Program at the European University Institute in Florence. I have served as a Perkins Fellow at Princeton University's Law and Public Affairs Program (2014-2015), an Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice at NYU School of Law (Fall 2015), a visiting research fellow at the Justitia Amplificata Centre for Advanced Studies at Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt-am-Main (Summer 2015), and as a Fellow at the Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Most recently, I was proud to serve as the Neil MacCormick Fellow in Legal Theory at NYU School of Law (2023-2024), having once interned at MacCormick's constituency office during his tenure as an MEP.
Since July 2025, I have been serving as the Director of the Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies at Columbia University. I am currently also a member of the Provost's Advisory Committee on Academic Freedom. From 2021 to July 2025, I was the Deputy Chair of the Political Science Department, with responsibility over curriculum matters. I am also an affiliated faculty member (by courtesy) at Columbia Law School. I sit on the board of the Wenner-Gren Foundation and am a former president of the European Youth Parliament.
Click here to request a current CV.
Click here for my Google Scholar page.
Click here for my for my 2023 Convocation Address to Columbia's graduating PhD class (starting around 14:00).
