SETA Foundation at Washington D.C.

Serdar Poyraz has published on the history of Turkey and the Ottoman Empire and taught classes on Modern World History and the History of the Middle East at Ohio State University and Wake Forest University. He worked as a Graduate Research Associate at the Ohio State’s Mershon Center for International Security Studies. He received his B.A. in International Relations from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, and his M.A. in Political Science from Ohio State University. He also studied at the Dekhoda Institute in Tehran, Iran. He is currently finishing his PhD studies in Middle Eastern History at Ohio State University. He will teach as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Montana in 2011.