Gönül Tol received her B.A. degree in International Relations from Middle East Technical University in Ankara in 2001, her M.A. degree in Political Science from Florida International University in 2002. Her masters thesis which is entitled Beyond Systemic Approaches: The Study of Irredentism is on the role of ethnic identity on foreign policy making with a special emphasis on former Yugoslavia. She received her Ph.D. degree in Political Science from Florida International University in 2008. Her dissertation, The Rise of Islamism among Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands, is a comparative study of the Milli Görüş Movement in Germany and the Netherlands. She conducted extensive field research in these countries between 2004 and 2007. She was awarded a graduate fellowship at the Middle East Studies Center at Florida International University where she also served as the Director of the Model United Nations. She worked for TUSIAD US as the Program Manager. Her focus of research is Islamist movements in Western Europe and the Middle East and their radicalization processes, immigration, ethnic and religious identity formation and institutionalization of political Islam. She has served as panelist, chair and moderator in several international conferences. She has given lectures on Turkish politics, Muslims in Europe and political Islam at American University, Johns Hopkins University, Florida International University, University of Kent and TOBB ETÜ. Dr. Tol is an adjunct professor at the National Defense University, College of International Security Affairs.She has publications on Turkish immigrant community in Western Europe, EU immigration policies and Islam in Western Europe and political islam.

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