Zeynep Pamuk is Associate Professor of Contemporary Political Theory and Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College.

She holds a PhD in political science from Harvard and a BA in ethics, politics & economics from Yale. Before joining Oxford, she was Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and the Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego.

I am an MPhil student in Politics (Comparative Government) under the supervision of Professor Tarik Abou-Chadi. My research concerns the intersection of political behaviour, party strategy and social identities in European democracies. I am interested in exploring the short term effect of parties’ identity based appeals on voting behaviour and the long term role these appeals take within processes of cleavage formation.

I am a DPhil Student at the University of Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations. I study comparative politics, and my DPhil thesis research focuses on the state formation and state-building processes of the modern East Asian states (especially China) during the early half of the twentieth century. Aside from my thesis, my research interest also covers contemporary Chinese politics, historical political economy, government-organised non-governmental organisations, as well as the modern history of China and Japan.