Acar, Yılmaz

Bio

Yılmaz Acar is a first-year Government and Politics Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, College Park.

His primary research interests are religion and politics, international security, Middle East politics, political violence, non-state armed groups, and rebel governance.

He received his M.A. in Social Sciences with a concentration in Political Science from the University of Chicago and earned dual B.A. degrees in Political Science and International Relations and Islamic Studies from Ibn Haldun University.