Dr. Deniz Dinç is an accomplished scholar specializing in political science and international relations. With a Ph.D. from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, Dr. Dinç focuses in his research on Russian and Eurasian politics, political ideologies, and historical sociology. He has authored numerous articles in journals including Social Science Information and Eurasian Geography and Economics and published a monograph entitled Tatarstan’s Autonomy Within Putin’s Russia, with Routledge. Dr. Dinç has extensive teaching experience at various universities in northern Cyprus. He is a visiting scholar at the Davis Center for academic year 2024-2025.