Pınar Arıkan Sinkaya
Biography
Pınar Arıkan completed her undergraduate and graduate education at the Middle East Technical University in the Department of International Relations in Turkey. She took Master of Science degree in 2006 with the thesis titled ‘Uneasy Coexistence: Islamism vs. Republicanism Debate in the Islamic Republic of Iran,’ and Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2015 with the dissertation titled ‘Discursive Continuity of Political Nationalism as a Form of Opposition Politics in Modern Iran.’ She spent 2010-2011 academic yearat Tehran University, Iran and 2012-2013 academic year at Columbia University in New York, USA as guest researcher. She worked as research assistant in METU at the Department of International Relations between 2004 and 2016. She is competent in English and Persian languages. Her academic interests are history, society and politics in the Middle East, international relations of the Middle East, Iranian political thought, Iranian modernization, idea of nationalism in Iran, Turkey-Iran relations, Iranian foreign policy, theories of nationalism, post-colonial theory, Feminism in International Relations discipline, and gender issue in the Middle East. She is currently pursuing her academic career at Akdeniz University in the Department of International Relations.
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