Tuğba Bozçağa is a non-resident fellow with the Middle East Initiative. Her research interests lie in political economy of development, with a substantive focus on governance, bureaucracy, social welfare, and distributive politics. Her dissertation examines how local social structures and institutions affect state capacity and service provision in Turkey. Her other research focuses on Islamist service provision, urban and rural governance, refugee welfare, and the use of geospatial measures in the study of development. In her research, Bozçağa uses quasi-experimental statistical methods; data sources and tools such as geospatial analysis, automated web scraping, historical archives, and mobile call detail records; and qualitative fieldwork. She is a junior fellow at the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS). Bozçağa holds a PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BA in Economics from Boğaziçi University. Dr. Bozçağa was a postdoctoral research fellow with the Middle East Initiative for the 2020-2021 academic year.