Author: Deniz Gökalp

Deniz Gökalp is Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the American University in Dubai. She obtained her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. Gökalp's research interests include political and comparative sociology, more specifically issues of political violence. Her current research project deals with war, international state-building, displacement and gender in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan.

Deniz Gökalp

Deniz Gökalp is Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the American University in Dubai. She obtained her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. Gökalp's research interests include political and comparative sociology, more specifically issues of political violence. Her current research project deals with war, international state-building, displacement and gender in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan.

Political Agency in the Middle East Threads

Virtual roundtable: Deniz Gökalp’s response

August, 2016 / By Deniz Gökalp

1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? I do not think that […]

Kurdistan Threads

The New War in Iraq: No Safe Place for the Arabs and the Kurds – Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora

October, 2014 / By Deniz Gökalp

The world has been shocked by the “two monumental crisis”, the “twin plagues of Ebola and ISIS”, UN High Commissioner