Nevzat Soguk is a professor of political science at the

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa The University of Hawaii at Mānoa is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Hawaiʻi system and houses the main offic ...

, specializing in the areas of

globalization Globalization is the process of increasing interdependence and integration among the economies, markets, societies, and cultures of different countries worldwide. This is made possible by the reduction of barriers to international trade, th ...

, migration and critical

international relations theory International relations theory is the study of international relations (IR) from a theoretical perspective. It seeks to explain behaviors and outcomes in international politics. The three most prominent School of thought, schools of thought are ...

Education

Soguk graduated from

Gazi University Gazi University () is a Public university, public research university located primarily in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded in 1926 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk originally as the Gazi Education Institute (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Gazi Eğitim Ens ...

in Turkey in 1985. After a 1990 master's degree from

Ohio University Ohio University (Ohio or OU) is a Public university, public research university with its main campus in Athens, Ohio, United States. The university was first conceived in the 1787 contract between the United States Department of the Treasury#Re ...

, he went to

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public university, public research university in Tempe, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885 as Territorial Normal School by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, the university is o ...

for doctoral study. He completed his Ph.D. there in 1995 with the dissertation ''Refugee Matters: Refugee Regimentations As Practices of Statecraft'', supervised by

Richard K. Ashley Richard K. Ashley is a Postmodernism (international relations), postmodernist scholar of International relations theory, International relations. He is an associate professor at the Arizona State University's School of Politics and Global Studie ...

Books

Soguk's books include: *''States and Strangers: Refugees and Displacements of Statecraft'' (University of Minnesota Press, 1999) *''Globalization and Islamism: Beyond Fundamentalism'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011) *''Arab Revolutions and World Transformations'' (edited with Anna M. Agathangelou, Routledge, 2013) *''The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Theory, Modern Power, World Politics: Critical Investigations'' (edited with Scott G. Nelson, Routledge, 2016) *''Global Insurrectional Politics'' (edited, Routledge, 2018)

Personal life

In 1992, Soguk married Clare Hanusz (1968–2023), an immigration lawyer whom he met when they were both students at Ohio University. They had two children.

References

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