Cagla E. Aykac is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of Fatih University. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She received her Bachelors’ degree from Brown University and her Masters’ degree from Bogaziçi University, and has worked as an independent researcher for institutions such as the Open Society Institute (OSI), the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the European Research Council (ERC).