Faculty Mentor

Professor Selin Bengi Gümrükçü received her PhD degree in political science from the University of Zurich in 2014. She worked as a research assistant at the Department Political Science and International Relations, Izmir University of Economics, and as a lecturer and Assistant Professor at Izmir University. She studies on various aspects of social movements, political parties, far right, violence and Europeanization and Euroscepticism, mainly focusing on the case of Turkey.  Her first book, Protest and Politics in Turkey in the 1970s: Echoes of Dissent, was published with Routledge in February 2026. Dr. Gümrükçü joined the Political Science Department as a visiting scholar in 2018 and is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor for the undergraduate program.