Batuhan Eren is a research fellow at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, and a member of the Center on Social Movements Studies (COSMOS). He holds a PhD in Political Science and Sociology from SNS, and he is currently working on the AUTHLIB project (“Neo-authoritarianisms in Europe and the liberal democratic response”). He also holds a BA in International Relations at Bilkent University, with a minor degree in Psychology, and an MA in International Relations at Koç University. Previously, he worked as a research assistant in the ERC-funded research project “The New Politics of Welfare: Towards an ‘Emerging Markets’ Welfare State Regime”.

His research mainly focuses on collective action and social movements, with a particular interest in the cross-national diffusion of protests and global waves of mobilization. He also investigates the mechanisms of the transnationalization of far-right politics, and the potentials of using Grounded Theory methodology in social movement research.

Research interests: social movements, protests, collective action, grounded theory, and far-right