Erol Ülker

Erol Ülker serves as a faculty member at Işık University in the Department of International Relations. He earned his BA in International Relations from Istanbul University (1999) and holds two MA degrees from the Political Science and International Relations Department of Boğaziçi University (2003) and the Nationalism Studies Program of the Central European University (2004). He received his PhD in History from the University of Chicago in 2013 and was a EUME Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien in 2015/2016. He is the chair of the administrative board of the Social History Research Foundation of Turkey – TÜSTAV. His research interests include nationalism, migration, socialist and communist movements, and labor politics in the late Ottoman Empire and early republican Turkey. Among his published books are Mütareke'nin İlk Yıllarında İstanbul'da Direniş ve Sol, 1918-1920 (Resistance and the Left in Istanbul during the First Years of the Armistice Period, 1918-1920), (İstanbul, Sosyal Tarih Yayınları, 2020), and Meşrutiyet'ten Cumhuriyet'e Mesleki Temsil ve Sol (Corporatism and the Left from the Constitutional Monarchy to the Republic), (İstanbul: Yordam Kitap, 2023). Ülker’s new book, An Imperial Capital at the Threshold of Nation State: Allied Occupation, National Resistance, and Political Conflict in Istanbul, 1918 – 1923 (Ulus Devletin Eşiğinde Bir İmparatorluk Başkenti: İstanbul’da Müttefik İşgali, Ulusal Direniş ve Siyasal Çatışma, 1918-1923), is set to be published from Berghahn Books in 2024.