Gönül Tol - The Effects of the 2011 Turkish Elections on Domestic and Foreign Policy

Gönül Tol received her B.A. degree in International Relations from Middle East Technical University in Ankara in 2001 and her M.A. degree in Political Science from Florida International University in 2002. Her master's thesis, entitled Beyond Systemic Approaches: The Study of Irredentism, is on the role of ethnic identity on foreign policy making with a special emphasis on the former Yugoslavia. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Florida International University in 2008. Her dissertation, The Rise of Islamism among Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands, is a comparative study of the Milli Görüs Movement in Germany and the Netherlands. She conducted extensive field research in these countries between 2004 and 2007. She was awarded a graduate fellowship at the Middle East Studies Center at Florida International University where she also served as the Director of Model United Nations. She has also worked for TUSIAD US as their Program Manager. She is the Director of the Center for Turkish Studies at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC. Her focus of research is Islamist movements in Western Europe and the Middle East and their radicalization processes, immigration, ethnic and religious identity formation and institutionalization of political Islam. She has served as a panelist, chair and moderator in several international conferences. She has given lectures on Turkish politics, Muslims in Europe and political Islam at American University, Johns Hopkins University, Florida International University, the University of Kent, and TOBB ETÜ. She has publications on the Turkish immigrant community in Western Europe, EU immigration policies, Islam in Western Europe, and political Islam.