Institutional Affiliation聽
Associate Professor of Political Science at Colorado State University
Education
BA聽聽 Ankara University
PhD聽 University of Utah, Department of Political Science
Regional and Thematic Interests
MENA, Islamist movements, gender, social policy and politics of food
Profile
Gamze 脟avdar is an associate professor and graduate coordinator in the department of Political Science at Colorado State University. She joined the Colorado State University in 2006. She has conducted fieldwork in a number of countries particularly on Islamist movements and their gender policies. Her research interests more recently expanded to include the politics of food in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Dr.聽脟avdar teaches at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Her courses include general comparative politics courses as well as MENA specific ones. In June 2008, as one of the three leaders of Bimson Seminar, she led a six day seminar for K-12 teachers on students' biases against MENA.
Selected Publication
聽Gamze 脟avdar, Yavuz Ya艧ar and Jonathan J. Fisk. 鈥淪tudents鈥� Biases about the Middle East? Lessons from an Experiment鈥澛�Journal of Political Science Education, Forthcoming. 聽聽
聽Gamze 脟avdar and Yavuz Ya艧ar, 鈥淧olitical Unrest and Women in the Middle East: Moving Beyond Culturalism and Formalism鈥澛�Feminist Economics, 20(4) (July 2014):33-57.
Gamze 脟avdar and聽Yavuz Ya艧ar, "Women in Turkey: Silent Consensus in the Age of Neoliberalism and Islamic Conservatism" 2019,聽Routledge