LERNA KOHARİK YANIK

Professor LERNA KOHARİK YANIK

A BLOK 1. KAT 229

+90 (212) 5336532 - 1647

[email protected]

ORCID

Education

Doctorate

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Siyaset Bilimi

Master's Degree

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Siyaset Bilimi

Bachelor's Degree

BOĞAZİÇİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler

Research Areas

  • Siyasal Coğrafya
  • Batı-Dışı Uluslararası İlişkiler Kuramı
  • Türk Dış Politikası
  • Medya, Kültür ve Siyaset
  • Eleştirel Jeopolitik

Work Experience

2016 / Continuing Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü, Profesör
Kadir Has Üniversitesi

2011 / 2016 Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü, Doçent
Kadir Has Üniversitesi

2003 / 2011 Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü, Yardımcı Doçent
Bilkent Üniversitesi

2009 / 2010 Misafir Öğretim Üyesi/Fulbright
The Graduate Center/City University of New York

2017 / 2018 Misafir Öğretim Üyesi
Cambridge Üniversitesi

Publications

  • Hisarlıoğlu, Fulya; Yanık, Lerna K. (2024), "The rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire’s religiously inspired status symbols", Cooperation and Conflict, DOI: 10.1177/00108367241269620
  • Özdamar, Özgür; Yanik, Lerna K. (2024), "Populist hyperpersonalization and politicization of foreign policy institutions", International Affairs, Vol.100, No.5, 1835-1856 DOI: 10.1093/ia/iiae181
  • Hisarlıoğlu, Fulya; Karagiannopoulou, Chara; Yanık, Lerna K. (2024), "Identity, Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Sovereignty: Narrating Turkey and Greece Through Ayasofya", Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2024.2318675
  • Yanık, Lerna K. (2023), "Turkey and the Russian invasion of Ukraine: an interplay of bloc (de)formation, recognition and asymmetric interdependencies?", Globalizations, DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2023.2232189
  • Yanık, Lerna K. (2022), "The making of Turkish exceptionalism: the west, the rest and unreconciled issues from the past", Turkish Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2022.2159816
  • Yanık, Lerna K.; Subotić, Jelena (2021), "Cultural heritage as status seeking: The international politics of Turkey’s restoration wave", Cooperation and Conflict, Vol.56, No.3, 245-263 DOI: 10.1177/0010836720970242
  • Yanık, Lerna K.; Karaoğuz, H. Emrah (2021), "Science and flags: deconstructing Turkey’s Antarctic strategy", Third World Quarterly, Vol.42, No.8, 1661-1678 DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2021.1941847
  • Yalkin, Cagri; Yanık, Lerna K. (2020), "Entrenching geopolitical imaginations: brand(ing) Turkey through Orhan Pamuk", Journal of International Relations and Development, Vol.23, No.2, 339-358 DOI: 10.1057/s41268-018-0153-1
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2019), "Debating Eurasia: Political travels of a geographical concept in turkey", Uluslararasi Iliskiler, Vol.16, No.63, 33-50 DOI: 10.33458/uidergisi.621290
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2017), "Of Celebrities and Landmarks: Space, State and the Making of “Cosmopolitan” Turkey", Geopolitics, Vol.22, No.1, 176-203 DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2016.1212020
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2016), "Bringing the Empire Back In: The Gradual Discovery of the Ottoman Empire in Turkish Foreign Policy", Welt des Islams, Vol.56, No.3-4, 466-488 DOI: 10.1163/15700607-05634p09
  • Akçali, Emel; Yanik, Lerna K.; Hung, Ho Fung (2015), "Inter-Asian (post-)neoliberalism?: Adoption, disjuncture and transgression", Asian Journal of Social Science, Vol.43, No.1-2, 5-21 DOI: 10.1163/15685314-04301002
  • Güvenç, Serhat; Yanik, Lerna K. (2012), "Turkey's involvement in the F-35 program: One step forward, two steps backward?", International Journal, Vol.68, No.1, 111-129 DOI: 10.1177/002070201306800108
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2012), "Foreign policy during 2011 parliamentary elections in Turkey: Both an issue and non-issue", Turkish Studies, Vol.13, No.2, 213-227 DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2012.685255
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2012), "From the Atlantic Pact to NATO: Debating Turkey's location and function in the Turkish Grand National Assembly", Uluslararasi Iliskiler, Vol.9, No.34, 29-50
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2011), "Constructing Turkish "exceptionalism" Discourses of liminality and hybridity in post-Cold War Turkish foreign policy", Political Geography, Vol.30, No.2, 80-89 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.01.003
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2009), "The metamorphosis of metaphors of vision: "Bridging" Turkey's location, role and identity after the end of the cold war", Geopolitics, Vol.14, No.3, 531-549 DOI: 10.1080/14650040802693515
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2009), "Valley of the Wolves-Iraq: Anti-geopolitics alla turca", Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Vol.2, No.1, 153-170 DOI: 10.1163/187398609X430660
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2007), "Allies or partners? An appraisal of Turkey's ties to Russia, 1991-2007", East European Quarterly, Vol.41, No.3, 349-370
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2006), "Guns and human rights: Major powers, global arms transfer, and human rights violations", Human Rights Quarterly, Vol.28, No.2, 357-388 DOI: 10.1353/hrq.2006.0026
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2006), "'Nevruz' or 'Newroz'? Deconstructing the 'invention' of a contested tradition in contemporary Turkey", Middle Eastern Studies, Vol.42, No.2, 285-302 DOI: 10.1080/00263200500417710
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2004), "The politics of educational exchange: Turkish education in Eurasia", Europe - Asia Studies, Vol.56, No.2, 293-307 DOI: 10.1080/0966813042000190551

Projects

Project Name Role in the Project Project Type Fund Establishment Project Date
Deprem ve Kadın: İstanbul'da Toplumsal Kırılganlıklara Duyarlı, Afet Risk Azaltma ve Hazırlık Planlamaları İçin Tespit, Tetkik ve Çözüm Önerileri Yürütücü Ulusal Proje TÜBİTAK ARDEB 01.12.2021
01.12.2024
CA19129 - Decolonising Development: Research, Teaching and Practice Yürütücü Uluslararası Proje COST 09.09.2020
08.09.2024
CA18140 - People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492-1923) Yürütücü Uluslararası Proje COST 09.04.2019
08.04.2023
109K240: Türkiye’yi Konumlandırmak: Türk Dış Politikasında Konum, Kimlik ve Uluslararası İşlev Bağlarını Çözümlemek Yürütücü Ulusal Proje TÜBİTAK ARDEB 15.10.2009
15.10.2012

Courses Offered

Course Name Course Code Period
Turkish Politics POL314 2023/24 Spring
Modern Political History of Turkey PS508 2023/24 Spring
Introduction to Political Science POL201 2023/24 Fall
Comparative Politics POL311 2023/24 Fall
Introduction to Political Science I PSIR101 2024/25 Fall
Comparative Politics PSIR303 2024/25 Fall