Laçin İdil Öztığ is a Professor at Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul, where she teaches Middle East politics and international organizations. Her research focuses on border politics, democratization, human rights, secularism, and populism. Her work has been published in numerous journals, including Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Government and Opposition, Territory, Politics, Governance, Third World Quarterly, European Policy Analysis, Public Health, Middle East Policy, The Social Science Journal, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Journal of Borderlands Studies, and Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. She also serves as the editor of Alternatives: Global, Local, Political.