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Education
- Ph.D. in Political Science, Boston College (in progress)
- M.A. in International Security Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- M.A. in Political Science and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, Germany
- B.A. in Political Science and International Relations, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey (Minor: Economics; Exchange semester at The American University in Cairo)
Fellowships & Awards
- EITM (Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models) Scholarship – ICPSR, University of Michigan
- DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship
- Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy Fellowship, Boston College
Research Training
- ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, University of Michigan
- Network Analysis I
- Network Analysis II
- Data Visualization
- Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS)
Publications
Krause, P., Özturan, B., & Young, L. (2025). How Students and the Public Define Terrorism, and How Education Affects Those Definitions. Terrorism and Political Violence, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2025.2509130
Ozturan, Betul. (2025). "From Conflict to Consensus: Power-Sharing and the Path to Democracy." Clough Center Journal, 3, 93–99.
Ozturan, Betul. (2024). "Mapping Political Violence in Turkey: When Terrorism and Civil War Converge." APSA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2024-wg865
Talks
September 01, 2025
Talk at APSA 2025 Annual Convention, Vancouver, Canada
September 01, 2025
Talk at APSA 2025 Annual Convention, Vancouver, Canada
September 01, 2025
Talk at CRS Annual Conference, Kent, UK
July 23, 2025
Talk at IC2S2 2025 (International Conference on Computational Social Science), Virtual
June 01, 2025
Talk at PolNet 2025, Cambridge, MA, USA
March 15, 2025
Talk at ISA 2025 Annual Convention, Virtual
March 01, 2025
Talk at Civil Wars Special Issue Workshop, Chicago, IL, USA
April 01, 2024
Talk at ISA 2024 Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, USA
April 01, 2024
Talk at ISA 2024 Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, USA
April 01, 2022
Talk at 79th Annual MPSA Conference, Chicago, IL, USA
March 01, 2022
Talk at Harvard Political Violence Workshop, Cambridge, MA, USA
November 01, 2021
Talk at Boston College Graduate Workshop, Boston, MA, USA
Teaching
Skills
- Methods: Text analysis, social network analysis, event data modeling, machine learning, spatial visualization, regression analysis
- Programming: R, Python, Stata, QGIS
- Languages: English (fluent), Turkish (native), German (intermediate)
Service and Leadership
- Organizer, VIP Workshops 2025
- Graduate Researcher, Political Violence Lab, Boston College
- Graduate Researcher, Western Jihadism Project, Boston College
- Field research in Ukraine
