I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. I am currently writing a dissertation on the "Regimes of Ethnicity and a Theory of Ethnic Regime Change in Germany, Soviet Union and post-Communist Russia, and Turkey." In particular, I examine the challenges to change the ethnicity regime in these three countries since the 1950s, and explain why the earlier challenges from the 1950s to the 1990s failed, until an episode of successful reform in the late 1990s and early 2000s in 3 countries.
My dissertation uses, among many other sources, 57 interviews I conducted (in English, German, Russian, and Turkish) with politicians, bureaucrats, leaders of ethnic minority organizations, intellectuals, academics, and other actors engaged with the politics of ethnicity in Germany, USSR/Russia, and Turkey.
On this topic, I have coined the term "regimes of ethnicity" and defined the categories of "mono-ethnic, multi-ethnic, and non/anti-ethnic regimes", which you can learn more about by reading my articles: " The Ethnic Category and Nationalism: Mono-Ethnic, Multi-Ethnic and Non-Ethnic Regimes" in Dogu Bati in Turkish in 2006 and "Continuity and Change in the Regimes of Ethnicity in Austria, Germany, the USSR/Russia, and Turkey: Varieties of Ethnic Regimes and Hypotheses for Change" in Nationalities Papers in March 2007, previously presented in ASN and MPSA conferences in 2006.
I have also written on many other topics, including moral economy, intellectual history, ethno-nationalism, supra-nationalism, and international relations in general and with a specific focus on Central Europe, former Soviet Union, Turkey, and Iran. Some of my work has already been cited and otherwise used as a point of reference in multiple academic publications by other scholars. This otherwise simple page has a link to my CV, which in turn has my academic history and links to all my publications, among other things. My most recent publications are Incompatible Visions of Supra-Nationalism: National Identity in Turkey and the European Union published in the European Journal of Sociology, Vol. 48, Issue 2, pp. 347-372, and "15 Years after the "Collapse" of Soviet Socialism: The Role of Elite Choices, Class Conflict, and a Critique of Modernization Theory", Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies Working Paper Series, February 2008.
