Biography
Mehmet Gurses (Ph.D. in Political Science, University of North Texas, 2007) is the Jalal Talabani endowed professor and director of Kurdish Studies at the University of Central Florida. His research interests include Kurdish politics, religion and politics, ethnic and religious conflict, post-civil war peacebuilding, and post-war democratization. He is the author of Anatomy of a Civil War: Sociopolitical Impacts of the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey (University of Michigan Press, 2018) and co-editor, with David Romano and Michael Gunter, of Kurds in the Middle East: Enduring Problems and New Dynamics (Lexington Books, 2020). He has published extensively in journals including International Interactions, Defense and Peace Economics, International Studies Perspectives, Party Politics, Conflict Management and Peace Science, and Political Research Quarterly.