Lisel Hintz
@liselhintz.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. Studying identity, FP, authoritarianism, protest, pop culture, other media. Turkey focus.
The news cycle is nuts.
If you know scholars from/studying the MENA region who might benefit from a writing solidarity group, please send them my way. All levels are welcome - grad students, full professors, anyone.
We just finished Week 136 and we had first-timers this week.
If you know scholars from/studying the MENA region who might benefit from a writing solidarity group, please send them my way. All levels are welcome - grad students, full professors, anyone.
We just finished Week 136 and we had first-timers this week.
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The news cycle is nuts.
If you know scholars from/studying the MENA region who might benefit from a writing solidarity group, please send them my way. All levels are welcome - grad students, full professors, anyone.
We just finished Week 136 and we had first-timers this week.
If you know scholars from/studying the MENA region who might benefit from a writing solidarity group, please send them my way. All levels are welcome - grad students, full professors, anyone.
We just finished Week 136 and we had first-timers this week.
For everyone else struggling with the news cycle and trying to teach.
Here's a Jeopardy! game I made as a review for my Politics of Protest course (contains syllabus-specific stuff, class jokes, etc.): jeopardylabs.com/play/politic....
The template is easy to customize: jeopardylabs.com.
Here's a Jeopardy! game I made as a review for my Politics of Protest course (contains syllabus-specific stuff, class jokes, etc.): jeopardylabs.com/play/politic....
The template is easy to customize: jeopardylabs.com.
November 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
For everyone else struggling with the news cycle and trying to teach.
Here's a Jeopardy! game I made as a review for my Politics of Protest course (contains syllabus-specific stuff, class jokes, etc.): jeopardylabs.com/play/politic....
The template is easy to customize: jeopardylabs.com.
Here's a Jeopardy! game I made as a review for my Politics of Protest course (contains syllabus-specific stuff, class jokes, etc.): jeopardylabs.com/play/politic....
The template is easy to customize: jeopardylabs.com.
Today I taught my last class ever at Johns Hopkins SAIS.
My Politics of Protest class was pretty much the ideal way to wrap it all up.
My Politics of Protest class was pretty much the ideal way to wrap it all up.
November 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Today I taught my last class ever at Johns Hopkins SAIS.
My Politics of Protest class was pretty much the ideal way to wrap it all up.
My Politics of Protest class was pretty much the ideal way to wrap it all up.
On Turkey's peace process, @sinemadar.bsky.social has been tracking the likelihood of parliamentary commission visit to jailed PKK leader Öcalan.
Sinem is one to follow on all things Turkey.
I spoke recently (and skeptically) about other peace process dynamics: open.spotify.com/episode/1eN4...
Sinem is one to follow on all things Turkey.
I spoke recently (and skeptically) about other peace process dynamics: open.spotify.com/episode/1eN4...
November 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
On Turkey's peace process, @sinemadar.bsky.social has been tracking the likelihood of parliamentary commission visit to jailed PKK leader Öcalan.
Sinem is one to follow on all things Turkey.
I spoke recently (and skeptically) about other peace process dynamics: open.spotify.com/episode/1eN4...
Sinem is one to follow on all things Turkey.
I spoke recently (and skeptically) about other peace process dynamics: open.spotify.com/episode/1eN4...
The next @pomeps.bsky.social Virtual Research Workshop series is coming soon. In the meantime, here's some great work coming out of previous VRWs.
Check out @ashartnett.bsky.social and @msaleh-econhistory.bsky.social's recent article.
Thanks to discussant Neil Ketchley!
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Check out @ashartnett.bsky.social and @msaleh-econhistory.bsky.social's recent article.
Thanks to discussant Neil Ketchley!
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Precolonial Elites and Colonial Redistribution of Political Power | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Precolonial Elites and Colonial Redistribution of Political Power - Volume 119 Issue 4
doi.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The next @pomeps.bsky.social Virtual Research Workshop series is coming soon. In the meantime, here's some great work coming out of previous VRWs.
Check out @ashartnett.bsky.social and @msaleh-econhistory.bsky.social's recent article.
Thanks to discussant Neil Ketchley!
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Check out @ashartnett.bsky.social and @msaleh-econhistory.bsky.social's recent article.
Thanks to discussant Neil Ketchley!
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Reposted by Lisel Hintz
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
Reposted by Lisel Hintz
“Dubal…said…she was “kind of in tears” after the ruling. “This represents saving higher education, saving public research and the standing up of faculty and staff and students,” said Ms. Dubal, who is also a law professor at the University of California, Irvine.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:18 AM
“Dubal…said…she was “kind of in tears” after the ruling. “This represents saving higher education, saving public research and the standing up of faculty and staff and students,” said Ms. Dubal, who is also a law professor at the University of California, Irvine.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Totally different environment, but people from Turkey express similar
sentiments when they hear just how much Turkish news and entertainment media I consume for my research.
I get the word “sacrifice” a lot.
sentiments when they hear just how much Turkish news and entertainment media I consume for my research.
I get the word “sacrifice” a lot.
I used to be immersed in Muslim Brotherhood and jihadist forums and chat rooms and media not because I agreed with them but because I needed to understand them. The MAGA online shit is so much stupider and so much less worth the time and intellectual investment. I’m glad some people do it I guess.
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Totally different environment, but people from Turkey express similar
sentiments when they hear just how much Turkish news and entertainment media I consume for my research.
I get the word “sacrifice” a lot.
sentiments when they hear just how much Turkish news and entertainment media I consume for my research.
I get the word “sacrifice” a lot.
Tomorrow we finish Week 135 of our MENA Zoom solidarity group.
This week, two new members joined our writing sessions.
I post about this a lot because I want to make our community accessible to as many students and scholars from/working on MENA as possible.
Please reach out/share if interested
This week, two new members joined our writing sessions.
I post about this a lot because I want to make our community accessible to as many students and scholars from/working on MENA as possible.
Please reach out/share if interested
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Tomorrow we finish Week 135 of our MENA Zoom solidarity group.
This week, two new members joined our writing sessions.
I post about this a lot because I want to make our community accessible to as many students and scholars from/working on MENA as possible.
Please reach out/share if interested
This week, two new members joined our writing sessions.
I post about this a lot because I want to make our community accessible to as many students and scholars from/working on MENA as possible.
Please reach out/share if interested
1. Anne Kirstine Rønn @annekirstineronn.bsky.social.
2025. "What Does It Mean to Oppose Sectarianism? An Ordinary Language Study Among Lebanese Across Social Backgrounds."
Congratulations, and thanks to discussant Ibrahim Halawi!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
2025. "What Does It Mean to Oppose Sectarianism? An Ordinary Language Study Among Lebanese Across Social Backgrounds."
Congratulations, and thanks to discussant Ibrahim Halawi!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What does it mean to oppose sectarianism? An ordinary language study among Lebanese across social backgrounds
Within the literature on identity politics and divided societies, scholars have increasingly focused on how to conceptualize challenges and antitheses to sectarianism. Recent publications have expa...
www.tandfonline.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
1. Anne Kirstine Rønn @annekirstineronn.bsky.social.
2025. "What Does It Mean to Oppose Sectarianism? An Ordinary Language Study Among Lebanese Across Social Backgrounds."
Congratulations, and thanks to discussant Ibrahim Halawi!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
2025. "What Does It Mean to Oppose Sectarianism? An Ordinary Language Study Among Lebanese Across Social Backgrounds."
Congratulations, and thanks to discussant Ibrahim Halawi!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I'm working with @pomeps.bsky.social to check in on papers presented in our workshops in the last 5 years.
To brighten our feeds, and boost hope around studying the Middle East, I wanted to share some papers that early career scholars workshopped and then published.
Three from Spring 2024 VRWs:
To brighten our feeds, and boost hope around studying the Middle East, I wanted to share some papers that early career scholars workshopped and then published.
Three from Spring 2024 VRWs:
As chair of @pomeps.bsky.social Virtual Research Workshop committee, I'm tracking workshopped papers that have been published.
To amplify this work, I'll share them here.
First up: @oneryigit.bsky.social explains support for ethnic rights. Congrats!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
To amplify this work, I'll share them here.
First up: @oneryigit.bsky.social explains support for ethnic rights. Congrats!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Explaining Variation in Support for Ethnic Group Rights: The Role of Forced Displacement and Conflict Proximity
Why do some members of an ethnic group support ethnic group rights while others do not? Drawing on social psychology, I argue that exposure to political violence shapes individual attitudes by deepen...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I'm working with @pomeps.bsky.social to check in on papers presented in our workshops in the last 5 years.
To brighten our feeds, and boost hope around studying the Middle East, I wanted to share some papers that early career scholars workshopped and then published.
Three from Spring 2024 VRWs:
To brighten our feeds, and boost hope around studying the Middle East, I wanted to share some papers that early career scholars workshopped and then published.
Three from Spring 2024 VRWs:
Congratulations @michellelkahn.bsky.social!
Her award-winning book on migration from Turkey to Germany and the racism migrants experience(d) can be downloaded for free
Her award-winning book on migration from Turkey to Germany and the racism migrants experience(d) can be downloaded for free
I’m very happy to announce that I won a book prize from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.
You can download the book for free at tinyurl.com/kahnbk. It’s about the history of Turkish migration to Germany and anti-migrant racism.
@ghiwashington.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
You can download the book for free at tinyurl.com/kahnbk. It’s about the history of Turkish migration to Germany and anti-migrant racism.
@ghiwashington.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Congratulations @michellelkahn.bsky.social!
Her award-winning book on migration from Turkey to Germany and the racism migrants experience(d) can be downloaded for free
Her award-winning book on migration from Turkey to Germany and the racism migrants experience(d) can be downloaded for free
Reposted by Lisel Hintz
Check out The Qualitative Metamorphosis in @comppol.bsky.social! Great review by @ajayverghese.bsky.social of books by @saragoodman.bsky.social, Jen Cyr, @marioluissmall.bsky.social, Jessica Calarco, @alanjacobs.bsky.social, and @macartan.bsky.social. 👇
www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
Review Article: The Qualitative Metamorphosis: Ingenta Connect Fast Track Article
www.ingentaconnect.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Check out The Qualitative Metamorphosis in @comppol.bsky.social! Great review by @ajayverghese.bsky.social of books by @saragoodman.bsky.social, Jen Cyr, @marioluissmall.bsky.social, Jessica Calarco, @alanjacobs.bsky.social, and @macartan.bsky.social. 👇
www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
Reposted by Lisel Hintz
LAST DAY to apply! POMEPS is pleased to announce a Call for Papers: Political Movements in North Africa and the Sahel after the Arab Uprisings. The deadline to apply is Friday, Nov. 7th, COB. For more information on how to apply: pomeps.org/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers: Political Movements in North Africa and the Sahel after the Arab Uprisings - Project on Middle East Political Science
The last two decades have seen dramatic and transformative evolution in the forms, organizations, ideas and practices of political movements of all descriptions across North Africa and the Sahel. Pop...
pomeps.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
LAST DAY to apply! POMEPS is pleased to announce a Call for Papers: Political Movements in North Africa and the Sahel after the Arab Uprisings. The deadline to apply is Friday, Nov. 7th, COB. For more information on how to apply: pomeps.org/call-for-pap...
Sandwich Guy is found not guilty.
November 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Sandwich Guy is found not guilty.
As chair of @pomeps.bsky.social Virtual Research Workshop committee, I'm tracking workshopped papers that have been published.
To amplify this work, I'll share them here.
First up: @oneryigit.bsky.social explains support for ethnic rights. Congrats!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
To amplify this work, I'll share them here.
First up: @oneryigit.bsky.social explains support for ethnic rights. Congrats!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Explaining Variation in Support for Ethnic Group Rights: The Role of Forced Displacement and Conflict Proximity
Why do some members of an ethnic group support ethnic group rights while others do not? Drawing on social psychology, I argue that exposure to political violence shapes individual attitudes by deepen...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
As chair of @pomeps.bsky.social Virtual Research Workshop committee, I'm tracking workshopped papers that have been published.
To amplify this work, I'll share them here.
First up: @oneryigit.bsky.social explains support for ethnic rights. Congrats!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
To amplify this work, I'll share them here.
First up: @oneryigit.bsky.social explains support for ethnic rights. Congrats!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Cuomo is out there using seriously, frighteningly bad AI to push a “socialist” scare tactic Halloween video.
And @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is doing this lovely outreach thing. With a cat and künefe.
This week, I wish I still lived in NYC.
And @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is doing this lovely outreach thing. With a cat and künefe.
This week, I wish I still lived in NYC.
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
November 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Cuomo is out there using seriously, frighteningly bad AI to push a “socialist” scare tactic Halloween video.
And @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is doing this lovely outreach thing. With a cat and künefe.
This week, I wish I still lived in NYC.
And @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is doing this lovely outreach thing. With a cat and künefe.
This week, I wish I still lived in NYC.
Reposted by Lisel Hintz
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
Helpful (map-full!) piece on Turkey's growing presence in Africa. Statecraft tools range from military bases and trade deals to mosque-building and Turkish Airlines connections.
I look at TRT Français's anti-imperialist media narratives.
This piece nicely highlights arms sales.
I look at TRT Français's anti-imperialist media narratives.
This piece nicely highlights arms sales.
Come for the article, stay for the maps! Thanks to @sinanciddi.bsky.social and the team at @foreignpolicy.com for this:
foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/t...
How Turkish Arms End Up in African Conflicts
Ankara’s engagement on the continent has generated violence, not stability.
foreignpolicy.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Helpful (map-full!) piece on Turkey's growing presence in Africa. Statecraft tools range from military bases and trade deals to mosque-building and Turkish Airlines connections.
I look at TRT Français's anti-imperialist media narratives.
This piece nicely highlights arms sales.
I look at TRT Français's anti-imperialist media narratives.
This piece nicely highlights arms sales.
The MENA writing solidarity group I run is open to new members!
We’ve completed 132 weeks. 150+ scholars - from MA students to full profs - have joined. Some joined 200+ sessions.
If you or your students from/working on MENA might benefit from a virtual writing community, please reach out!
We’ve completed 132 weeks. 150+ scholars - from MA students to full profs - have joined. Some joined 200+ sessions.
If you or your students from/working on MENA might benefit from a virtual writing community, please reach out!
October 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The MENA writing solidarity group I run is open to new members!
We’ve completed 132 weeks. 150+ scholars - from MA students to full profs - have joined. Some joined 200+ sessions.
If you or your students from/working on MENA might benefit from a virtual writing community, please reach out!
We’ve completed 132 weeks. 150+ scholars - from MA students to full profs - have joined. Some joined 200+ sessions.
If you or your students from/working on MENA might benefit from a virtual writing community, please reach out!
Sharing only because I study Turkish politics.
Nothing of comparative use to see here.
Working on/living in the US? Scroll on by.
Nothing of comparative use to see here.
Working on/living in the US? Scroll on by.
Pro-opposition TV network Tele1 has been placed under state management following the arrest of its editor-in-chief in an espionage investigation. The channel’s broadcast was cut off while on air after trustees arrived. bianet.org/haber/truste...
Tele1 TV seized by state, broadcast interrupted mid-air
The network's chief editor was was detained as part of an espionage investigation earlier in the day.
bianet.org
October 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Sharing only because I study Turkish politics.
Nothing of comparative use to see here.
Working on/living in the US? Scroll on by.
Nothing of comparative use to see here.
Working on/living in the US? Scroll on by.
This is one of the weirdest, starkest, most on-point, most depressing forms of political communication I've seen.
Follow @ok-sure.bsky.social's instructions. Find the timeline.
Be shocked.
Follow @ok-sure.bsky.social's instructions. Find the timeline.
Be shocked.
Open the page. Scroll down to the timeline. Go through the timeline.
It’s… shocking
It’s… shocking
The White House Building
Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from...
www.whitehouse.gov
October 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This is one of the weirdest, starkest, most on-point, most depressing forms of political communication I've seen.
Follow @ok-sure.bsky.social's instructions. Find the timeline.
Be shocked.
Follow @ok-sure.bsky.social's instructions. Find the timeline.
Be shocked.
Populist authoritarians often criminalize marginalized identities. Could be ethnic, religious, sexual, etc.
Current draft legislation positions Turkey to criminalize LGBTQ+ identities. And writing/posting about queer issues.
US observers please take note. For Turkey’s sake. And for the US.
Current draft legislation positions Turkey to criminalize LGBTQ+ identities. And writing/posting about queer issues.
US observers please take note. For Turkey’s sake. And for the US.
Like previous legislation targeting Turkey's minorities, the draft law seeks to criminalize an identity.
Here, any expression or support of LGBTQ+ identities could be subject to prosecution. Speech, behavior, journalism, social media, healthcare access...
This is Turkey's "Year of the Family."
Here, any expression or support of LGBTQ+ identities could be subject to prosecution. Speech, behavior, journalism, social media, healthcare access...
This is Turkey's "Year of the Family."
#Turkey: A draft law, soon to be submitted to the Parliament, includes a provision to restrict and possibly criminalise the reporting on LGBTQ+ community. If enacted, journalists face up to three years imprisonment. We call for the withdrawal of this provision. @tgs.org.tr
October 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Populist authoritarians often criminalize marginalized identities. Could be ethnic, religious, sexual, etc.
Current draft legislation positions Turkey to criminalize LGBTQ+ identities. And writing/posting about queer issues.
US observers please take note. For Turkey’s sake. And for the US.
Current draft legislation positions Turkey to criminalize LGBTQ+ identities. And writing/posting about queer issues.
US observers please take note. For Turkey’s sake. And for the US.
Like previous legislation targeting Turkey's minorities, the draft law seeks to criminalize an identity.
Here, any expression or support of LGBTQ+ identities could be subject to prosecution. Speech, behavior, journalism, social media, healthcare access...
This is Turkey's "Year of the Family."
Here, any expression or support of LGBTQ+ identities could be subject to prosecution. Speech, behavior, journalism, social media, healthcare access...
This is Turkey's "Year of the Family."
#Turkey: A draft law, soon to be submitted to the Parliament, includes a provision to restrict and possibly criminalise the reporting on LGBTQ+ community. If enacted, journalists face up to three years imprisonment. We call for the withdrawal of this provision. @tgs.org.tr
Turkey: Journalists reporting LGBTQ+ issues risk criminalisation
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joined the undersigned organisations in calling for the removal of the reported anti-LGBTQ+ provision from ...
europeanjournalists.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Like previous legislation targeting Turkey's minorities, the draft law seeks to criminalize an identity.
Here, any expression or support of LGBTQ+ identities could be subject to prosecution. Speech, behavior, journalism, social media, healthcare access...
This is Turkey's "Year of the Family."
Here, any expression or support of LGBTQ+ identities could be subject to prosecution. Speech, behavior, journalism, social media, healthcare access...
This is Turkey's "Year of the Family."
Reposted by Lisel Hintz
Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.
October 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.