I am an Assistant Professor at Bilkent University, Department of International Relations.

My research intersects international relations and political economy, with a theoretical focus on self-enforcing solutions to commitment and information problems. More specifically, my theoretical focus includes reputation and signaling dynamics, status concerns, and the emergence of institutions with enforcement power. Substantively, I work on these themes in conflict settings, such as deterrence and crisis escalation, and IPE settings, such as foreign direct investment. I also work on these themes in domestic contexts, such as institutional formation, and domestic implications of international status concerns.

I work with formal models, tools of design-based inference on both observational and experimental data, and computational methods.

I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.