Ersin Kalaycıoğlu

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Mahmut Ersin Kalaycıoğlu is a Turkish political scientist and the current President of Isik University , Istanbul (since 2004). He is also nephew of the very well-known Turkish Constitution professor Tarık Zafer Tunaya.

Prof. Ersin Kalaycioglu received his undergraduate degree from Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics in 1973 (major Economics, minors Political Science and Statistics). He continued his education at the University of Iowa, Department of Political Science, and received his M.A. in 1975, and his Ph. D. in 1977. Dr. Kalaycioglu started his academic career at Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics from Fall 1977 through Spring 1982, and at the Faculty of Political Science of the same university between Fall 1982 and Spring 1984. Dr. Kalaycioglu was employed as a full time faculty member at Bogazici University from Fall 1984 to Spring 2002.

As an academic, Prof. Kalaycioglu specializes in the study of political representation and participation. Prof. Kalaycioglu has contributed a chapter on Turkey in Mark Kasselman, Joel Krieger and William A. Joseph (eds.) Introduction to Comparative Politics, 3 rd ed., (Boston, Houghton-Mifflin: 2005).

Isik University's web site notes that Prof. Kalaycioglu is presently involved in conducting studies of political participation and voting in Turkey, in collaboration with Ustun Erguder and Ali Carkoglu of Sabanci University.

Prof. Kalaycioglu is a Board Member of the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, and also a member of Turkish Political Science Association, Turkish Social Science Association, and Middle Eastern Studies Association of North America (MESA).