Şuhnaz Yılmaz - Professor
E-Mail: syilmaz@ku.edu.tr
Şuhnaz Yılmaz is a Professor of International Relations and serves as the Dean of College of Administrative Sciences and Economics and the Director of Graduate School of Business at Koç University, Istanbul. During 2016-17, she was a Visiting Professor at UCLA with a dual appointment at the Department of Public Policy, Luskin School of Public Affairs and the Luskin Center for Innovation.
Professor Yılmaz graduated from the International Relations Department of Bilkent University in 1993 as the Valedictorian. She received her M.A (1995) and Ph.D. (2000) from Princeton University, specializing on Near Eastern Studies and International Relations. She conducted her post-doctoral Studies at Harvard University. She held visiting faculty positions at the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University and at the Center for International Studies, Princeton University. She received many national and international awards and grants. In 2008, she was granted the prestigious Distinguished Young Scientist Award of the Turkish Academy of Sciences and in 2016, she received the Koç University Outstanding Teaching Award.
Professor Yılmaz teaches courses on International Relations, Turkish Foreign Policy, Turkish-American Relations, Middle Eastern Politics, Politics of the Former USSR and Central Asia, European Foreign and Security Policy. She also teaches at the Graduate School of Business offering courses on Foreign Policy Analysis for Global Leaders, Business and Government, and Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa in the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM). Her recent research focuses on the international affairs of Eurasia and the Middle East, foreign policy analysis, Turkish foreign policy, international security and European security and foreign policy, energy and natural resource politics, Turkish-US-EU and Turkish- Russian relations. She has numerous publications in prestigious journals such as Political Science Quarterly, International Politics, Middle East Journal, and Third World Quarterly. She has a recent book on Turkish-American Relations entitled Turkish- American Relations (1800-1952): Between the Stars, Stripes and the Crescent (2015) from Routledge Press International Relations Series.
