Ronay Bakan is a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at European University, Florence. She is also an Incoming Assistant Professor at Fordham University, New York. Her research employs ethnographic methods to investigate spatialities of violence and resistance in emergencies ranging from wars to earthquakes, focusing on Kurdish politics within Southwest Asia and North Africa.
Ronay Bakan earned her PhD from the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. She received her BA and MA degrees from the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bogazici University, Istanbul. In 2024-2025, she was a Spotlight Scholar for the American Political Science Association Interpretivist Methodologies and Methods Related Group. In 2018-2019, she was a Fox International Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University.
