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Dr Elsa Sen

Visiting Research Fellow

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Biography

Dr Elsa Tulin Sen is a teaching fellow in geopolitics at the Ecole Polytechnique of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. She is the associate editor of the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) 

Elsa holds a BA in Philosophy and Sociology and an MA in Sociology from Sorbonne University. She has earned her PhD from the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at King’s College London, which was awarded a nomination for the Graduate School’s Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Prize and a Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize. Elsa’s doctoral research examined the past and present-day dynamics of the Kurdish movement in Turkey from a social movement perspective.

 

Research areas and interests

Nationalism, social movements, total social movements, geopolitics, ethnicity, diasporas, conflict resolution, Kurds, Turkey, Syria and the wider Middle East

 

Publications

 

Research

SSSCSDS
Centre for the Study of Divided Societies

The Centre for the study of Divided Societies provides a global focal point for teaching and research on ethno-national problems that divide and unite societies across the modern world.

Events

11NovThe talk will be delivered by Dr Elsa Sen. Picture: LEVI MEIR CLANCY

The Syrian conflict: A disruptive element in the Kurdish movement in Turkey

Mapping the recent evolution of the Kurdish movements in Turkey and Syria.

Please note: this event has passed.

Research

SSSCSDS
Centre for the Study of Divided Societies

The Centre for the study of Divided Societies provides a global focal point for teaching and research on ethno-national problems that divide and unite societies across the modern world.

Events

11NovThe talk will be delivered by Dr Elsa Sen. Picture: LEVI MEIR CLANCY

The Syrian conflict: A disruptive element in the Kurdish movement in Turkey

Mapping the recent evolution of the Kurdish movements in Turkey and Syria.

Please note: this event has passed.