Turkuler Isiksel

James P. Shenton Associate Professor of the Core Curriculum

Email: nti2002@columbia.edu

Political theory; Turkey-EU relations; law and politics of international economic institutions; sovereignty, citizenship, and cosmopolitanism; Turkish politics

Turkuler Isiksel is the James P. Shenton Assistant Professor of the Core Curriculum at Columbia University and teaches in the Department of Political Science. She earned her PhD in political science from Yale University and works primarily in contemporary political theory. She is the author of Europe’s Functional Constitution. A Theory of Constitutionalism beyond the State (Oxford University Press, May 2016), which argues that the economically driven process of European integration has produced a supranational constitutional system that differs markedly from traditional rights-based and democratic models of constitutionalism.

Her research has appeared in Human Rights Quarterly, the European Journal of International Law, International Journal of Constitutional Law (I*CON), Global Constitutionalism, the European Law Journal, and Constellations. Isiksel has held a Jean Monnet postdoctoral fellowship at the European University Institute (2010-2011), a LAPA/Perkins Fellowship at Princeton University's Law and Public Affairs Program (2014-2015), an Emile Noël Fellowship at NYU Law School (Fall 2015), and a visiting research fellowship at the Justitia Amplificata Centre at Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt-am-Main (Summer 2015).