Enes Bayraklı is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Turkish-German University in Istanbul. He earned his BA, MA, and PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna and conducted research for his PhD thesis at the University of Nottingham in Britain between 2009 and 2010. His fields of research include the transformation of Turkish foreign policy, cultural diplomacy, foreign policy analysis, and German politics and foreign policy.
Farid Hafez is currently Class of 1955 Visiting Professor of International Studies at Williams College. Since 2017, he has also been a non-resident Researcher at Georgetown University’s The Bridge Initiative. Before, he was a Senior Researcher at the University of Salzburg from 2014 to 2021. In 2017, he was a Fulbright-Botstiber Visiting Professor of Austrian-American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender. Since 2010, Hafez has been the founding editor of the Islamophobia Studies Yearbook, and since 2015 co-editor of the annual European Islamophobia Report. He has received the Bruno Kreisky Award for the political book of the year, for his anthology Islamophobia in Austria (co-ed. with John Bunzl, 2009), and published more than one hundred books and academic articles.
