He received his PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to coming to Davidson, he was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. Broadly speaking, his research and teaching interests lay in the fields of public opinion, political behavior, post-communist politics, European integration, and international organizations. More recently, he has become interested in studying the individual and contextual factors that contribute to religious extremism and radicalization in the Balkans. Dr. Ceka is originally from Macedonia, and received his BA from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.