In our ongoing series spotlighting researchers at the Postcor Lab, we're pleased to introduce Semuhi Sinanoglu, a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Toronto. Semuhi is currently a Trudeau Centre Fellow in Peace, Conflict, and Justice at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and a Regional Manager at the Digital Society Project. His dissertation research is about how autocrats sustain their ruling coalitions under economic crises by using repression and polarization to politically control key elite groups. He uses quantitative, computational, and experimental methods for his academic research. His co-authored papers are published on high-impact academic journals such as Comparative Politics and Sociological Methods & Research.
