Gamze Cavdar

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Institutional Affiliation 

Colorado State University

Education

Ph.D. University of Utah 2006

Regional and Thematic Interests

Islamist movements, social policy, gender in North Africa and the Middle East (MENA), and the politics of food

Profile

Gamze Çavdar joined the Colorado State University in 2006. She has conducted fieldwork in a number of countries particularly on Islamist movements and their gender policies. Her research interests more recently expanded to include the politics of food in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Dr. Çavdar teaches at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Her courses include general comparative politics courses as well as MENA specific ones. In June 2008, as one of the three leaders of Bimson Seminar, she led a six day seminar for K-12 teachers on students' biases against MENA.

Selected Publications

Gamze Çavdar & Yavuz Yaşar, Women in Turkey: Silent Consensus in the Age of Neoliberalism and Islamic Conservatism,Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics, 2019.

This book received The 2021 Suraj Mal and Shyama Devi Agarwal Book Prize of International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE)

Articles & Book Chapters:

Gamze Cavdar, “Democratic Backsliding, COVID-19 and Gender: A Political Economy Perspective” in Covid-19 and Authoritarianism edited by Anis Brik, NYU Press, forthcoming.

Nermin Allam and Gamze Çavdar, "What's in a Joke? Humor, Affect and Women's Movement in Turkey and Egypt," International Feminist Journal of Politics, forthcoming.

Gamze Çavdar. 2024. "Canary in the Coal Mine: Gender Equality in Democratic Backsliding." In MENA Politics (Vol. 7, Number 2, pp. 24–26). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13947941

Gamze Çavdar,“Teaching Women in MENA Politics: Undermining Bias and Introducing a Framework”Gender and Politics, 2023.

Gamze Çavdar. 2022.“The Study of Women and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa Beyond Culturalism” Digest of Middle East Studies,  https://doi.org/10.1111/dome.12276.

Gamze Çavdar. 2022.“Gendered Implications of Faith-Based Provision of Social Services: Examples from Egypt and Turkey", Digest of Middle East Studies, https://doi.org/10.1111/dome.12272.

Gamze Çavdar, "Why Women Support Conservative Parties: The Case of Turkey," Political Science Quarterly, Vol.37, No.1 (2022), 43-72.

       --Listen to POMEPS Podcast on "Why Women Support Conservative Parties"

Gamze Çavdar, Theresa Pappich and Elizabeth Ryan. 2019. "“Microbiome, Breastfeeding and Public Health Policy: A Case for Fiber,” Nutrition and Metabolic Insights, https://doi.org/10.1177/1178638819869597.

Gamze Çavdar, Yavuz Yaşar and Jonathan J. Fisk. 2019. “Students’ Biases about the Middle East? Lessons from an Experiment” Journal of Political Science Education.

Gamze Çavdar and Yavuz Yaşar. 2014. Political Unrest and Women in the Middle East: Moving Beyond Culturalism and FormalismFeminist Economics 20(3).

Marcela Velasco and Gamze Çavdar. 2013. Teaching Large Classes with ClickersPS: Political Science and Politics. October: 823-829.

Gamze Cavdar. 2012 Heterogeneous Transformation of Islamism:The Justice and Development Party and the Environment The Arab World Geographer 15(1): 1-19.

Gamze Çavdar. 2012. "Islamist Rationality: An Assessment of the Rational Choice Approach" Politics and Religion 5(3):584-608.

Gamze Cavdar and Sue Doe. 2012. Learning through Writing: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in Writing AssignmentsPS: Political Science and Politics 45(2): 298-306. (#1 Most-read article in PS in 2017-21)

Gamze Cavdar. 2010. Islamist Moderation and the Resilience of Gender: Turkey s Persistence Paradox Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions Vol.11 Nos. 3-4: 341-357.

Gamze Cavdar. 2008. Beyond Election Fraud: Manipulation Violence and Foreign Power Intervention in Election Fraud: Detecting and Preventing Electoral Manipulation edited by M. Alvarez T. Hall and S. Hyde. Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press pp. 50-67.

Gamze Cavdar. 2007. The Paradox of the Egyptian Political Reform Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. 30 (4):1-21.

Gamze Cavdar. 2006. Islamist New Thinking in Turkey: A Model for Political Learning? Political Science Quarterly. 121 (3): 477-497.