Asst. Prof. JOSE DUARTE MEDEIROS RIBEIRO

José Duarte Ribeiro is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara. He is also a co-coordinator in the project "Democratic Innovations in Portugal" funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (FCG) at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. 
Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, where he worked on democratic innovations and citizen participation under the Horizon Europe-funded research project "Inclusive Citizenship in a World in Transformation: Co-Designing for Democracy (INCITE-DEM)". He continues to collaborate as an associated researcher on this project. 

He concluded his bachelor's in Sociology at the University of Porto (2013) and his master’s degree in urban and Regional Planning at the University of Aveiro (2015). In January 2023, he earned a PhD in Sociology from the Department of Sociology at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal RIVAR, edited by the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Santiago de Chile (USACH). He holds the early-career seat on the Executive Committee of the European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS). He also closely collaborates with the Research Committee on Sociology of Agriculture and Food (RC40) of the International Sociological Association (ISA). At RC40, he served on the Organising Committee for the conference “The Food System in the (Post) Pandemic World” at Leipzig University. In 2021, he was a visiting researcher at Ghent University, Department of Agricultural Economics (Belgium). That same year, he was also an invited lecturer at the Department of Sociology of the Middle East Technical University in the Rural Sociology course. In the past, he worked as a lecturer and a research fellow at the Centre for Latin American Studies of Ankara University from 2018 to 2023. In that context, he was, for a brief period in April-May 2022, at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) as a visiting lecturer teaching on Rural Transformation in Turkey and in April-May 2023, he was at Havana University (Cuba) as a visiting lecturer teaching on Social Change in Turkey: 1923-2023. He has published in a refereed international journal and has presented multiple papers at international conferences, in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, on rural sociology and rural/regional development. In Turkey, he works on topics like rural social movements, commons and participatory governance in the countryside, rural politics, and authoritarian populism.