Pelin Ayan Musil Associate Researcher
Pelin Musil is an Associate Researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague. Her research interests include democratization and regimes change, political parties and their systems, social movements, ethnic and religious politics with a focus on contemporary Turkey and the Middle East.
She is a member of the IIR's Centre for the Study of Global Regions.
She studied Political Science at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey (Ph.D.) and at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary (M.A.). She is also a senior lecturer at the School of International Relations and Diplomacy at Anglo-American University (AAU) in Prague. She has been a visiting Fulbright researcher at Georgetown University (2007-8) and a short-term visiting scholar at Stanford University (2019).