• Europe and Migration
• Islam and the West: Bridging the Gap
• Cultural Diversity in Europe
• Politics  (PhD)
• Introduction to Politics

• 2024-2025    Sabbatical Year at Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin Institute of Migration and Integration (BIM)

• 2024 DAAD Fellowship for Short-Term Research Stay at Humboldt University, Berlin
• Aziz Nesin Chair awarded by European University Viadrina, European Studies Programme, Frankfurt-Oder, Germany 2024 June
• TÜBİTAK Award for the ERC AdG, 2019-2024
• ERC Advanced Grant (2018). Project title: “Nativism, Islamophobism and Islamism in the Age of Populism: Culturalisation and Religionization of What is Social, Economic and Political in Europe”. The project will last for 5 years between 2019 and 2024. European Research Council Advanced Grant, ERC AdG, Call: ERC-2017-ADG, Type of Action: ERC-ADG, Acronym: ISLAM-OPHOB-ISM, Number: 785934, Duration: 60 months, GA based on the H2020 ERC MGA, Mono - 4.0, Start Date: 01 Jan 2019 – End Date 31 December 2023. Requested EU Contribution:€2,276,125.00

• Best Teaching Award at Istanbul Bilgi University, 2017-2018 Academic Year, awarded 5 April 2018.
• Fully-salaried sabbatical leave from Istanbul Bilgi University during 2016-2017, spent at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence
• Jean Monnet Fellowship awarded by the European Commission, spent at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, 2016-2017
• 2219 TUBITAK Postdoc Research Grant Abroad (2017) (Yurtdışı Doktora Sonrası Araştırma Burs Programı-BIDEB) awarded, but returned the fund due to late announcement.
• Best Teaching Award 2013, awarded by Istanbul Bilgi University, 09 January 2014
• Aziz Nesin Chair awarded by European University Viadrina, European Studies Programme, Frankfurt-Oder, Germany 2013
• Jean Monnet Chair in European Politics of Interculturalism 2011-2014, awarded by the European Commission
• Willy Brandt Professorship 2011-2012, awarded by Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM), Malmö University, Sweden
• Euroactiv News Portal European Award 2009, awarded by Turkey Euractiv
• Jean Monnet Module Europe and Migration 2008-20013, awarded by the European Commission
• Research Award on Internally Displaced People in Turkey, 1001 Program awarded by the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBİTAK) in 2007
• Winner of the Turkish Academy of Sciences Prize in Social Sciences 2005 (TÜBA-GEBİP Prize)
• Winner of the Sedat Simavi Prize in Social Sciences 2005 (together with Ferhat Kentel, for “Euro-Turks” Book 2005), awarded by the Turkish Association of Journalists
• International Visitors Programme Participant in “Multiculturalism in a Democratic Society”, organized by USA Department of State and Phelps Stokes Foundation, Washington DC (21 April – 15 May 2003)
• Meawards, awarded by the Population Council, Cairo (2001-2003), for the scientific project on Circassian Diaspora in Turkey
• Istanbul British Council Research Grant (1997 Summer);

• German Academic Exchange Grant, DAAD (1996)

• University of Warwick Home Students Only Fee (1996-1997)

• British Government Overseas Research Student Fellowship (1995-1997)

• European Union Jean Monnet Fellowship (1994-1995)

• Honoured Student of the Institute of Social Sciences, Marmara University (1991)

Istanbul Bilgi University

Member of the British Academy

Member of Science Academy, Turkey

Department of International Relations
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics of Interculturalism
Director, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence
Founding Director of the European Institute

For Publications, see:
https://bilgi.academia.edu/AyhanKaya
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-3220