Filiz Kahraman is an Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Toronto. Prior to her current position, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mortara Center for International Studies at Georgetown University. She received her PhD in political science from the University of Washington in 2017.

At UW, she was a Comparative Law and Society Studies fellow and a graduate student assistant at the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies. She also served in the steering committee of the Equality Initiative in Political Science.

Filiz Kahraman’s research investigates law and politics from international and comparative perspectives. She is currently working on a book manuscript examining why labor activists in Europe pursue human rights law as a new mobilization strategy and how international law has affected the lives of aggrieved workers on the ground.