Ph.D. in Political Science, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University 
M.A. in Political Science, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University
B.A. in Political Science, Department of Politics, Bates College

Before joining the American University in Dubai as an Associate Professor of Political Science, Dr. Güçler worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at Özyeğin University in Istanbul and as an Adjunct Professor of Social Research and Public Policy in the Division of Social Science at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). Between 2016 and 2017, he also served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Government at Uppsala University in Sweden.

His research interests are at the intersection of history of political thought, politics of representation, contemporary democratic theory, orientalism, and nationalism. He is currently working on a book project that gives the concept of orientalism a novel interpretation by focusing on Michel Foucault’s writings on the Iranian Revolution. He has published articles in leading journals such as Philosophy & Social Criticism and Nations and Nationalism. He is also the author of numerous books chapters, including his chapters in the United Nation’s Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Dr. Güçler has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships from organizations such as the Swedish Institute, the Buffett Institute for Global Studies, the School of Criticism and Theory Program at Cornell University, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He is also the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Excellence Award by Northwestern University.