Dr Elsa Tulin Sen is a teaching fellow in political science at the Institut Catholique de Paris and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. She is the associate editor of the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES).

Elsa holds a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from King’s College London, an MA in Sociology and a BA in Philosophy and Sociology from the Sorbonne University. 

Research areas and interests

Nationalism, social movements, total social movements, geopolitics, ethnicity, diasporas, conflict resolution, Kurds, Turkey, Syria and the wider Middle East

Publications

• Sen, Elsa Tulin. (Forthcoming book) The Kurdish Movement in Turkey: Nationalism, Social Movements and Recurring Cycles of Conflict, Bloomsbury, 2025. bloomsbury.com/us/kurdish-movement-in-turkey-9780755644063/
• Sen, Elsa Tulin. (2023) “Les Kurdes, des citoyens du monde par défaut? Réflexions sur des notions de citoyen, citoyenneté mondiale et diaspora à travers l'exemple kurde.” [Are the Kurds citizens of the world by default? Reflecting on the notions of citizen, world citizenship and diaspora through the Kurdish example]”, in Daniel Argelès, Meghann Cassidy, Heidi Knörzer, Chantal Schütz, Jeffrey Swartwood (dir.), Citoyens du monde? Le sujet à l'œuvre à l'échelle globale, Palaiseau, Editions de l’Ecole Polytechnique.
• Sen, Elsa Tulin. (2021) “Le conflit syrien: un élément perturbateur du mouvement social kurde en Turquie” [The Syrian conflict: a disruptive element in the Kurdish social movement in Turkey], Confluences Méditerranée, 2 (117), pp. 195-209.
• Sen, Elsa Tulin (2020) “Book review: The Rise of Hybrid Political Islam in Turkey - Origins and Consolidation of the JDP by Sevinç Bermek” The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13530194.2020.1815163
• Sen, Elsa Tulin (2019) “Nationalism and social movements: a complex interface” Maghreb - Machrek 240 (2), pp. 139-156. www.cairn.info/revue-maghreb-machrek-2019-2-page-139.htm
• Sen, Elsa Tulin (2018) “The Kurdish Struggle in Turkey as a ‘Total Social Movement’, 2013-2015” New Middle Eastern Studies 8 (1), pp. 90-110.
• Sen, Elsa Tulin (2015) “Book Review: Institutional Change in Turkey: The Impact of European Union Reforms on Human Rights and Policing by Leila Piran” Review of Social Studies 2 (1), pp. 124-127. www.rossjournal.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/RoSS-2015-Vol-2-No-1-Sen-124-126.pdf