Ayla Göl

(MENAFN- The Conversation)

• Senior Lecturer in International Relations, York St John University

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Dr Ayla Göl is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the School of Humanities, York St John University since September 2021. Dr Göl holds a PhD. from the Department of International Relations, LSE. Her research and teaching interests focus on Islam, nationalism, identity, foreign policy analysis and postcolonial politics, with particular reference to the Middle East, North Africa, Eurasia and Turkey.

Dr Göl has previously worked as a lecturer at LSE, and as both a Senior Lecturer and Reader in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. She has been a Visiting Professor at the Renmin University of China, a Visiting Scholar at the HRC Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, the University of Cambridge, and the inaugural John Vincent Visiting Fellow at the Department of International Relations, Australian National University. Before joining to York St John University, Dr Göl was a Visiting Research Fellow, at the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ), The School of Politics and International Relations, The University of Nottingham. She is a Senior Fellow at the Higher Education Academy.

She is also the author of, Turkey Facing East: Islam, Modernity and Foreign Policy (Manchester University Press, 2013); as well as numerous articles and book chapters on Turkish nationalism, foreign policy and international politics of the Middle East.

Experience

• 2015–2018 Reader, Aberystywth University
• 2012–2015 Senior lecturer, Aberystwyth University

Education

• 2016 Senior Fellow, Advance Higher Education
• 2000 London School of Economics, International Relations, PhD

Publications

• 2013 Turkey Facing East: Islam, Modernity and Foreign Policy, Manchester University Press
• 2009 The Identity of Turkey: Muslim and Secular, Third World Quarterly
• 2005 Imagining the Turkish nation through 'othering' Armenians, Nations and Nationalism

Professional Memberships

• British International Studies Association (BISA)
• International Studies Association (ISA)

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