Renowned Social Scientist Prof. Dr. Yılmaz Esmer Is Our University's New President

Bahçeşehir University enters the 2010-2011 academic year under the academic leadership of Prof. Dr. Yılmaz Esmer, an authority in the field of social sciences. Prof. Dr. Yılmaz Esmer, who has been working at the Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences since 2007, takes office as President of our University as of 9 June 2010.

With the steps it has taken since the day it was founded, Bahçeşehir University is getting closer every day to its goal of "becoming one of the world's top 500 universities by the 100th anniversary of the Republic." Bahçeşehir University begins the 2010s, during which the final steps toward this goal will be taken, under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Yılmaz Esmer, who has earned the appreciation of the entire international academic community as an "International Researcher."

Having conducted many important studies to date, Prof. Dr. Yılmaz Esmerbegan his academic career with a bachelor's degree from the Department of Political Science at Yale University in 1968, and continued with a master's degree in 1975 and a PhD in 1977 from the Department of Sociology at Stanford University. Having served as an Assistant Professor at Boğaziçi University and Stanford University between 1977 and 1982, Prof. Dr. Esmerreceived the title of Associate Professor in 1983 and Professor in 1989 from Boğaziçi University.

Having also led many research projects at the Bahçeşehir University Center for Economic and Social Research, Prof. Dr. Esmer is known for the international research projects in which he has taken part. Prof. Dr. Esmer is a Member of the Executive Committee of the World Values Survey, Türkiye Country Coordinator and Scientific Advisory Board Member of the European Social Survey, Türkiye Research Director of the European Values Study, Türkiye Representative of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, partner in the EU Sixth Framework Programme Network of Excellence, partner in the EU Seventh Framework Programme Collaborative Projects, member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Civil Society and member of the Advisory Board of the World Cultures Report. In 1990, he conducted research at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research as a Fulbright Scholar.

The Founding General Director of the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV), Prof. Dr. Yılmaz Esmer served at Boğaziçi University as Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Director of the Summer School, Vice President and member of the University Executive Board.

Focusing in his work particularly on comparative values research, cultural diversity, social science methodology, research methods, social change and modernization,

Prof. Dr. Esmer's most recent publications include "Elite and Mass Values: Religion as an Intervening Factor," "Radicalism, Extremism and Social Values: Findings of a Field Study," "Religion, Democratic Values and Political Conflict," "The International System, Democracy and Values," "Changing Values, Persisting Cultures: Case Studies in Value Change" and "The Effects of Religion and Religiosity on Voting Behavior."