Aside from his native Turkey, Barın Kayaoğlu spent his childhood and teenage years in Iraq and Lebanon and traveled to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus, Syria, Kuwait, Iran, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan. He received his B.A. and M.A. in political science from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in history working with Melvyn Leffler at The University of Virginia and with Nur Bilge Criss at Bilkent University.
Kayaoğlu is writing his dissertation on U.S. development aid to Turkey and Iran during the Cold War and the origins of anti-Americanism in the two countries. His research interests are international affairs, U.S. foreign policy, and Middle East politics.
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