Elise Massicard

Elise Massicard is a permanent senior research fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research / Centre d’Etudes Internationales, Paris. From 2010 to 2014, she was a research fellow at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies in Istanbul. She was a visiting fellow at the University of California at Berkeley (2009), at Northwestern University (2019) and Université Libre de Bruxelles (2021). Her research focuses on the political sociology of contemporary Turkey, especially state-society relations, sociology of the state, party politics, social movements, identity politics, and informal politics. She has authored The Alevis in Turkey and Europe: Identity and Managing Territorial Diversity (Routledge, 2012) and more recently, Street-level Governing. Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey (Stanford University Press, 2022). She has co-edited with Nicole Watts Negotiating Political Power in Turkey: Breaking up the Party (Routledge, 2012); and with Marc Aymes and Benjamin Gourisse, Order and Compromise. Government Practices in Turkey from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Early 21st Century (Brill, 2015). She has published extensively in academic journals. She is Editor-in-Chief of the refereed journal Critique Internationale. She is a founding member and a board member of the Consortium for European Symposia on Turkey (CEST).