Ezgi Yildiz is an Assistant Professor of Government at Bowdoin College and a Research Associate at the Global Governance Center of the Geneva Graduate Institute in Switzerland. She serves as a section co-chair of the European Society of International Law's Interest Group on Social Sciences and International Law, where she helps promote interdisciplinary research connecting international law and social sciences. Her book Between Forbearance and Audacity won the Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association's Human Rights Section and the International Studies Association's International Law section. It also received an Honorable Mention for the Chadwick F. Alger Prize from the International Studies Association's International Organization Section.