Semuhi Sinanoglu

Semuhi is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is a Trudeau Centre Fellow in Peace, Conflict, and Justice at Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and a Regional Manager at 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.