OSMAN BALKAN, PH.D.
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I am a twice elected member of the executive council of the American Political Science Association's Migration & Citizenship Section, co-founder of APSA's Political Ethnography Working Group, and convener of several methodological workshops for APSA's Middle East and North Africa and Interpretive Methodologies & Methods Sections. I have worked to advance the professional and academic success of underrepresented students through my leadership roles in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship and the Richard Rubin Scholar Mentor Program. 
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Service to the Profession

2025                         Committee Chair, Charles Taylor Book Award, APSA Interpretive Methodologies & Methods Section
2023                           Committee Chair, Hayward Alker Award, APSA Interpretive Methodologies & Methods Section
2022                           Convener, APSA Pre-Conference Short Course, "Ethnography & Interpretive Methods in Studies of Belonging & Migration"
2022                           Committee Chair, Hayward Alker Award, APSA Interpretive Methodologies & Methods Section
2021 - 2023           Executive Council Member (elected), APSA Migration & Citizenship Section
2021                            Convener, APSA MENA Section Summer Workshop, "Visuality and the Creation of Liminal Spaces of Participation"
2018 - 2020           Executive Council Member (elected), APSA Migration & Citizenship Section
2017 - Present       Co-Founder (with Tani Sebro), APSA Political Ethnography Working Group 


Campus Service and Mentorship

2022 - 2023         Faculty Director, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, Swarthmore College
2020 - 2022         Faculty Advisor & Committee Member, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, Swarthmore College
2017 - 2019            Lead Faculty Participant,  Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary Program, Swarthmore College
2016 - 2023          Faculty Mentor, Richard Rubin Scholar Mentor Program, Swarthmore College
2016 - 2023          Campus Liaison and Faculty Advisor, Critical Languages Scholarship Program, Swarthmore College
2016 - 2023           Faculty Advisor, Muslim Students' Association, Swarthmore College
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