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<b><i>Tue 4/22/2025 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Kansas Union, Big 12 (5th floor) -</i></b></div>
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Please join us for an award presentation and reception by the recipient of the</b></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><b><a href="https://news.ku.edu/news/article/mike-wuthrich-to-be-recognized-for-excellence-in-international-education" id="LPlnk" title="https://news.ku.edu/news/article/mike-wuthrich-to-be-recognized-for-excellence-in-international-education">Woodyard
International Educator Award, Michael Wuthrich</a></b></span><b>, associate professor and interim chair of political science and associate director of the Center for Global & International Studies. April 22nd from 3:30-5:00 p.m., Kansas Union, Big 12. We
encourage in-person attendance at this award presentation, but welcome participation in the
<a href="https://kansas.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r8zIuJIoSMCmg7kCXMthUg#/registration" id="LPlnk776591" title="https://kansas.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r8zIuJIoSMCmg7kCXMthUg#/registration">
Zoom webinar</a>.</b></div>
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The <u><a href="https://international.ku.edu/international-educator-award" id="OWA789e38c2-e5d0-d434-46c0-dad85e47484c" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(0, 36, 81); margin: 0px;">George and Eleanor Woodyard International Educator Award</a></u> recognizes
KU faculty members who have provided outstanding leadership in international education at KU.</div>
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Dr. Wuthrich received his PhD in Political Science from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey in 2011. His research interests are Middle East politics, particularly Turkish, Kurdish, and Iranian politics, parties and party systems, electoral behavior, populism,
nationalism, religion and politics, and women and politics in Turkey. His publications have appeared in
<i>the Journal of Democracy</i>, <i>Political Research Quarterly</i>, <i>Politics and Religion</i>,
<i>Parliamentary Affairs</i>, the <i>International Journal of Middle East Studies</i>, the
<i>Middle East Journal</i>, and <i>Turkish Studies</i> among others. He is co-author of the book,
<i>Beyond Piety and Politics: Religion, Social Relations, and Public Preferences in the Middle East and North Africa</i>, with Indiana University Press in 2022. His book,
<i>National Elections in Turkey: People, Politics, and the Party System</i> was published in 2015 with Syracuse University Press.</div>
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