Welcome to my wepage. I am a Ph.D. candidate in the department of political science at the Ohio State University. In my dissertation I compare the rise of the religiopolitical parties in Turkey and in Israel in the 1990s. My research and teaching interests include: Comparative politics of the Middle East, politics and culture, religious politics, political theory and democratic theory. Since 2007 I have been working as a Graduate Research Associate at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, where I work on a project that examines alliance building between African American and immigrant communities across the United States.