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Erol Balkan, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Economics, recently presented a talk titled “Displaced and Dispossessed: Photographs from the Border” at Guilford College.

Erol Balkan, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Economics, co-edited Refugees on the Move: Crisis and Response in Turkey and Europe, published by Berghahn Books.

“Professor Balkan goes above and beyond to help his students engage in the classroom, on campus, and in the local community.”

“Convergence and Competition Among the New Turkish Middle Classes,” co-authored by Professor of Economics Erol Balkan appears in the December issue of Current History.

Professor of Economics Erol Balkan is the co-author of a chapter in the recently published book Globalization and Higher Education.

Professors Erol Balkan and John Bartle and Britt Hysell, director of the English for Speakers of Other Languages Program, presented “Refugees Welcome Here" at a conference at Vassar College on Feb. 25.

A far-reaching economic policy that impacts countless lives can start with something as small as a grain of rice. Linh Do ’18 is spending her summer working on a research project titled, “Vietnam’s Economy in Transition,” which aims to analyze the effects of the Renovation Policy on Vietnamese rice production. Her project, undertaken with economics professor Erol Balkan, is supported by a Levitt Center Summer Research grant.

The Turkish language edition of Reproducing Class: Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul by Professor of Anthropology emeritus Henry Rutz and Professor of Economics Erol Balkan was published on Feb. 3.

In the wake of the recent terror attacks in Paris, ‘the refugee question’ has received redoubled interest from the international community. However, this global refugee crisis is in no way a new phenomenon, and has its roots far outside of the Middle East. To clarify the current state of duress, Professor of Economics Erol Balkan, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs Alan Cafruny and Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill held a panel discussion on Nov. 17 for an overflowing Red Pit of students, faculty and community members.

Four Hamilton professors will debate the global refugee crisis in a panel discussion on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m., in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson Building. The panel is sponsored by the Government Department and is free and open to the public.