Promoting Collaborations Between Global Experts
The Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program was founded in 2005 at Northwestern University’s Buffett Institute for Global Affairs.
The Program promotes intellectual dialogue and scholarship to provide a deeper, interdisciplinary, and critical understanding of contemporary Turkey in connection with global social processes, problems or conflicts.
The Program hosts visiting professors, visiting scholars and postdoctoral fellows; collaborates with a faculty board and faculty and student affiliates; and works closely with partner programs, and connects with global scholars in a variety of disciplines.
Supporting Turkish Scholarship
Our program supports Turkish scholarship and studies through the following activities.
Program Activities
- Organize seminars and conferences on critical issues
- Fund research by Northwestern faculty and graduate and undergraduate students
- Offer postdoctoral fellowships and visiting professor and visiting scholar programs
- Support undergraduate teaching on topics related to Turkey
- Facilitate study abroad and exchange programs in Turkey
- Fund the university library’s acquisitions in the area of modern Turkish studies
