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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 has acted as a visiting PhD student at Bielefeld Graduate School of History and Sociology, Bielefeld University and at Sciences Po, Paris and as a visiting fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Paris 8 and the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute. 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 publications appeared in international journals such as Turkish Studies, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies and in edited volumes. Her first book, Protest and Politics in Turkey in the 1970s: Echoes of Dissent, is coming out 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.