Sponsor
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Turkey’s Regional Gambit: The Kurdish Question, Syrian Interventions, and Pan-Islamism
Speaker(s): Dr. Tugrul Keskin
***This event is hybrid, taking place in the Pink Parlor (Duke East Campus) as well as Zoom (meeting ID: 982 9659 3464)
Tugrul Keskin is currently a lecturer at Cappadocia University and previously served as a professor and director of the Center for Global Governance at Shanghai University from 2016 to 2021. He was also the graduate director of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Maltepe University in Turkey. At Portland State University, Keskin taught in the Department of International and Global Studies and was affiliated with the Black Studies, Sociology, and the Center for Turkish Studies, where he also served as the Middle East Studies Coordinator for six years. His research and teaching focus on International and Global Studies, Social and Political Theory, Modern African Society and Politics, Islamic Movements, and the Modern Middle East.
Previously, Dr. Keskin taught Sociology and Africana Studies at Virginia Tech and served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at James Madison University and Radford University. He earned his PhD in Sociology from Virginia Tech, along with certificates in Africana Studies, Social and Political Thought, and International Research and Development. Keskin is the founder and moderator of the Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies, as well as Global China academic networks/research groups. He is also the founding editor of the Sociology of Islam journal (published by BRILL) and formerly the regional editor for Critical Sociology (SAGE), focusing on the Middle East and North Africa.
His current research areas include the modern Chinese state and society, technology/artificial intelligence and international relations, China's relations with the
Middle East and Africa, and U.S. foreign policy and think tanks in the post-Cold War era. Keskin is the editor of the Sociology of Islam journal (BRILL) and an associate editor of the Cappadocia Journal of Area Studies (CJAS).
Editor of Sociology of Islam Journal (Brill) https://cjas.kapadokya.edu.tr/index.php/cjas
He is also recipient Shanghai Project of Global Talents scholarship. http://chinaandthemiddleeast.blogspot.com
Tugrul Keskin is currently a lecturer at Cappadocia University and previously served as a professor and director of the Center for Global Governance at Shanghai University from 2016 to 2021. He was also the graduate director of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Maltepe University in Turkey. At Portland State University, Keskin taught in the Department of International and Global Studies and was affiliated with the Black Studies, Sociology, and the Center for Turkish Studies, where he also served as the Middle East Studies Coordinator for six years. His research and teaching focus on International and Global Studies, Social and Political Theory, Modern African Society and Politics, Islamic Movements, and the Modern Middle East.
Previously, Dr. Keskin taught Sociology and Africana Studies at Virginia Tech and served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at James Madison University and Radford University. He earned his PhD in Sociology from Virginia Tech, along with certificates in Africana Studies, Social and Political Thought, and International Research and Development. Keskin is the founder and moderator of the Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies, as well as Global China academic networks/research groups. He is also the founding editor of the Sociology of Islam journal (published by BRILL) and formerly the regional editor for Critical Sociology (SAGE), focusing on the Middle East and North Africa.
His current research areas include the modern Chinese state and society, technology/artificial intelligence and international relations, China's relations with the
Middle East and Africa, and U.S. foreign policy and think tanks in the post-Cold War era. Keskin is the editor of the Sociology of Islam journal (BRILL) and an associate editor of the Cappadocia Journal of Area Studies (CJAS).
Editor of Sociology of Islam Journal (Brill) https://cjas.kapadokya.edu.tr/index.php/cjas
He is also recipient Shanghai Project of Global Talents scholarship. http://chinaandthemiddleeast.blogspot.com
