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Emek M. Uçarer is Professor of International Relations at Bucknell University, where she joined the faculty in 1998 as Assistant Professor, advancing to Associate Professor in 2004 and full Professor in 2011. She served as Chair of the Department of International Relations from 2009 to 2013 and as Director of the International Relations Program from 2008 to 2009. Prior roles include Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Kolleg-Forschergruppe “Transformative Power of Europe” at the Free University of Berlin from 2011 to 2012. Uçarer earned her Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of South Carolina in 1998, M.A. in International Studies from the same institution in 1993, and B.B.A. in Marketing and Management from the State University of West Georgia in 1989. She conducted additional studies at Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg in Germany from 1991 to 1992 and at Bosphorus University in Turkey from 1985 to 1988. Her academic career also encompasses positions such as Managing Editor of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations from 1994 to 1995, In-Service Trainee at the European Commission Task Force for Justice and Home Affairs in 1996, and various research and teaching assistant roles at the University of South Carolina.

Uçarer's research focuses on governance of immigration and asylum in the European Union, the role of nongovernmental organizations in international organizations, human trafficking and smuggling, European integration, international law, human rights, global migration, and political mobilization of ethnic and migrant diasporas. She teaches courses including International Law, Human Rights, Global Governance, International Relations of Migration, and International Relations of Europe. Notable awards include Bucknell University’s Presidential Award for Teaching Excellence in 2005, American Association of University Women Educational Foundation American Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2005-2006, DAAD Faculty Research Visit Grant in 2011, and multiple Faculty Scholarly Development and International Travel Research Grants from Bucknell. Key publications feature co-edited books Migration and the Externalities of European Integration (Lexington Books, 2002) and Immigration into Western Societies: Problems and Policies (Pinter, 1997); journal articles such as “The External Dimension of Europeanization: The Case of Immigration Policies” with Sandra Lavenex (Cooperation and Conflict, 2004), “Burden-Shirking, Burden-Shifting, and Burden-Sharing in the Emergent European Asylum Regime” (International Politics, 2006), and “Tempering the EU? NGO Advocacy in the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice” (Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 2014); and recurring chapters on “Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice” and “Justice and Home Affairs” in editions of European Union Politics (Oxford University Press, 2003-2016).