Professor Ali Çarkoğlu is Professor of International Relations at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkiye. He received PhD in Political Sciences in SUNY-Binghamton (1994); MA in Economics in Rutgers University (1989), MA in Economics in Boğaziçi University (1988), and BA in Economics in Boğaziçi University (1986). His recent research focuses on voting behavior, party systems and political parties, religiosity, social capital, public opinion, and Turkish politics.  

Prof. Çarkoğlu has been teaching comparative politics, public choice theory, voting behavior, Turkish politics, research design and methods, basic statistics and regression methods, regression methods for categorical dependent variables, survey methods, and social network analysis. Since September 2013, he serves as the Dean to the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics at Koç University.