Selin Bengi Gümrükçü is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for European Studies (CES), Rutgers University. She received her PhD from University of Zurich in 2014. During and after her PhD, she held visiting positions at Sciences Po Paris, Paris 8 and more recently European University Institute. Her research and teaching fields of interest include comparative politics, political sociology, social movements, political parties and democratization and authoritarianism, and in particular regimes and repertoires of action, far-right and political violence, and as of late, interplay of populism with protests and global political parties. Mainly working on Turkey, because of the location and politics of the country, her areas of include both Southeast and Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Her publications appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Terrorism and Political Violence, Turkish Studies, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, and in edited volumes. She is currently finalizing a manuscript titled “Protest and Politics in Turkey in the 1970s: The Making of a Protest Wave” for Routledge.
