Dr. Sercan Canbolat

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• 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 “Polity Prize” in 2018, which is conferred on the best research article published in the journal’s previous volume. Sercan received the ISA—Midwest Region’s 2020 “Margaret G. Hermann Award” for a paper he presented in St. Louis in November 2019. The paper was entitled “Understanding Extreme Islamists in Their Native Language.” The award is given for the best use of text analysis in leadership studies. Sercan has earned the “University Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award” from the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Connecticut.