Ceren Lord is currently British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at DPIR. She was previously a Sasakawa Peace Foundation Postdoctoral Research Officer at the Middle East Studies Centre, the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA). She completed her PhD in May 2015 at the London School of Economics, Government Department, focusing on religious political mobilisation and the role of the state through the case study of the rise of political Islam in Turkey, with a comparative consideration of India, Malaysia and Ireland. She holds a master’s degree from Oxford in Modern Middle Eastern Studies. Alongside her academic career, Ceren previously worked in finance as an economist focusing on Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She is a regular contributor to the Economist Intelligence Unit, Associate Editor at the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies and the lead editor for the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA) Contemporary Turkey series published by I.B Tauris/Bloomsbury.
Research summary
Conflict and identity, religious political movements, Islamism; secularism and state-religion relations; the role of the ulema and changing nature of Islamic authority; comparative democratisation and the dynamics of authoritarian persistence; nationalism and nation-building; sectarianism and ethno-religious mobilisation in Turkey and the Middle East, the Alevi movement.
Ceren's research interests include:
Canada , Middle East, North Africa, Identity, Ideology, Religion, Europe
