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 Professor Dr. Vahit Bicak met with the best dissertation awards winner of he American Political Science Association and the Middle Eastern Studies Association, Assistant Professor Dr. Yuksel Sezgin.
(November 2009) Professor Dr. Vahit Bicak met with the best dissertation awards winner of he American Political Science Association and the Middle Eastern Studies Association, Assistant Professor Dr. Yuksel Sezgin. Yüksel Sezgin, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He earned his BA from the University of Ankara, and MAs from the University of London (SOAS), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an MA and a PhD from the University of Washington. In addition, he has been a research fellow at the American University in Cairo and University of Delhi. His research and teaching interests include legal pluralism, informal justice systems, religious law, state-society relations, human rights and Middle Eastern and South Asian affairs. His articles on comparative law and politics have appeared in various edited volumes and journals including Studies in Law, Politics & Society, Journal of Legal Pluralism, Review of International Affairs, Turkish Studies, Turkish Yearbook of International Relations, Insight Turkey, Perceptions, and the Journal of Comparative Asian Development. Professor Sezgin, whose research has been sponsored by a number of national and international funding agencies including the NSF, is currently completing a book based on his doctoral dissertation that received both the American Political Science Association and the Middle Eastern Studies Association"™s best dissertation awards. Before joining the faculty at John Jay, he taught in the Law, Societies and Justice Program at the University of Washington and worked as a consultant on various projects with major international development agencies. |
