- Monica Marks is a Rhodes Scholar, PhD candidate at Oxford University, and research fellow with the European Research Council-funded WAFAW program. Her work, which focuses primarily on politics, institutional reform, and Islamist movements in Tunisia and Turkey, has appeared in peer-reviewed books and journals, news outlets including The Guardian, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, and The Washington Post, and for think tanks including the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT), the Carnegie Endowment, the Brookings Institute, and The Century Foundation. A former Fulbright Scholar to Turkey, Ms. Marks has taught as a Visiting Professor in the Politics and International Relations Department of Istanbul’s Bogazici University. She was recently a Visiting Fellow at Columbia University’s SIPA school and a Visiting Fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations.