CMES Colloquium: The Politics and Anxieties of Comparison in Turkey and the United States

Begüm Adalet is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University. She is the author of Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey (Stanford University Press, 2018), which locates the making and travel of modernization as a theory and practice between Turkey and the United States during the early phases of the Cold War. Her research on the transnational dimensions of James Baldwin’s non-fictional writings has appeared in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Her current project explores the relationship between land reform, population management, and territoriality.