Ş. İlgü Özler ()

Director and Professor

About Ş. İlgü Özler

Ş. İlgü Özler is the founding Director of the SUNY Global Engagement Program in NYC and a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at SUNY New Paltz. Her research focuses on civic engagement. She has done research on urban slums and squatter areas in Turkey, Mexico and Chile. Her recent work focuses on Spanish and Turkish civil society organizations and political participation as well as human rights and global governance. Her publications appeared in the following journals: Sociological Perspectives, Ethics and International Affairs, Representation, Journal of Civil Society, Democratization, Latin American Perspectives, Global Environmental Politics, Mexican Studies and Turkish Studies. She was a Fulbright scholar at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in 2022.  She was the recipient of a Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellowship in Atrocity Prevention 2022-2023. For 20 years, she taught a course on the United Nations where she has organized and participated in over 600 briefings for her students at the United Nations. She engages her students in applied work in global affairs through the Global Engagement Program in affiliation with over 60 different international organizations. She is the founder of Mid-Hudson Valley local chapters of Amnesty International USA (served as coordinator 2011-2017) and United Nations Association (served as president 2013-2017). She served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty USA (2018-21 and 2023-26). Özler received her Ph.D. in Political Science from University of California, Los Angeles (2003)

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