Publications and CV

Articles in Refereed Journals

* Equal authorship

Yaylacı, Şule. (2024). Trust in Civil Wars: Wartime Transformations of Social Trust. Security Studies. Accepted.

Sambanis, Nicholas*; Simonson, Matthew* & Yaylacı, Şule*. (2024) Once We Too Were Strangers: Can a Heritage of Displacement be Leveraged to Build Support for Present-Day Refugees? Journal of Politics. Accepted.

Yaylacı, Şule* & Roth, Wendy*. (2024). Do Genetic Ancestry Tests Change Ethnic and Racial Identities? Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial. American Journal of Sociology, 129(4): 1172–1215.

Yaylacı, Şule & Bakiner, Onur. (2023). Anti-Immigrant Attitudes: The Role of Casual Intergroup Contact in Perceived Group Threat. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies. Online First.

Yaylacı, Şule & Chris Price. (2023). Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: On Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators. International Studies Review. Online First.

Yaylacı, Şule* & Chris Price* (2021). What Exactly are the Social and Political Consequences of Civil War? A Critical Review and Analysis of the Scholarship. Civil Wars, 23(2):283-310.

Yaylacı, Şule; Roth, Wendy & Jaffe, Kaitlyn. (2021). Measuring Genetic Essentialism in the Genomic Era: The Genetic Essentialism Scale for Race (GESR). Current Psychology, 40(8):3794-3808.

Yaylacı, Şule. (2020). Focus Groups as a Strategy to Alleviate the Challenges with Retrospective Narratives in Conflict Research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. Online first.

Roth, Wendy; Yaylacı, Şule; Jaffe, Kaitlyn & Richardson, Lindsey (2020). Do Genetic Ancestry Tests Increase Racial Essentialism? Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial. PLOS One 15(1):   e0227399. 

Yaylaci, Sule & Bakiner, Onur. (2018). Casualty Effect in Support for Intrastate War: The Case of Turkey. Civil Wars, 20(4), 555-586.

Harris, Leila; Rodina, Lucy; Danika Kleiber; Yaylaci, Sule; Goldin, Jacqueline & Owen, Germaine. (2017). Water Materialities and Participatory Governance: Implications of Water Quality, Access, and Conditions for Participatory Engagement in Ghana and South Africa. Society and Natural Resources, 31(1), 89-105.

Yaylaci, Sule* & Beauvais, Edana*. (2017). The Role of Social Group Membership on Classroom Participation. PS: Political Science and Politics, 50(2), 559-564.

Yaylaci, Sule. (2013). Reclaiming the Public Sphere in Turkey: Arendtian and Habermasian Interpretation of Forums. Research Turkey, 2(8), pp.11-18.

Book Project

Civil Wars and Trust: The Role of Geography and Identity (manuscript in progress)

* Finalist for the 2018 Vincent Lemieux Best PhD thesis Award 

* 2018 APSA Comparative Democratization Best Fieldwork Award (Honorable Mention)

Book Reviews

Yaylaci Sule. (2017). Understanding Civil Wars: Continuity and Change in Intrastate Conflict. By Edward Newman. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 50(2), 660-661.

Papers Under Review

Yaylacı, Şule. (2023). Trust in Civil Wars: Wartime Transformations of Social Trust. Security Studies. Revise and Resubmit.

Beauvais, Edana*; Warren, Mark* & Yaylacı, Şule*. (2023). When, Where, and Why Might Elected Political Elites Adopt Democratic Innovations?

Price, Chris & Yaylacı, Şule. (2023). A New Typology of Targeting in Civil War. 

Working Papers

Ethnic Identity Development in Wartime.

Reflections of Terrorism on Electoral Landscape: A Longitudinal Analysis.

Collective Targeting of Violence and Identity Shift. With Chris Price.

OP-EDS and Working Paper Publications

Why Erdogan is No Mubarak. Canadian International Council (2013).

Europeanization of Civil Society and Movements at Society and State Levels. Jean Monnet Working Paper Series, (2008) no.5

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