Laçin İdil Öztığ (PhD) is a Professor at Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul, Türkiye. She is also a non-resident faculty associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona in the United States. She teaches Middle East politics and international organizations, and her research focuses primarily on the Middle East, religion-state relations, border politics, democratization, human rights, and populism.
She is President of the ISA Interdisciplinary Studies Section and Editor of Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. Her work has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Government and Opposition, Globalizations, and Territory, Politics, Governance.