MICRO-BIO

• TUGRUL KESKIN is an Associate Professor and a member of the Center for Turkish Studies and Center for Global Studies at Shanghai University. Keskin was the graduate director at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Malte...More

  TUGRUL KESKIN is an Associate Professor and a member of the Center for Turkish Studies and Center for Global Studies at Shanghai University. Keskin was the graduate director at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Maltepe University in Turkey. He taught previously at the Department of International and Global Studies and as an affiliated faculty of Black Studies, Sociology and the Center for Turkish Studies at Portland State University. He served as the Middle East Studies Coordinator at PSU for six years. His research and teaching interests include International and Global Studies, Social and Political Theory, African Society and Politics, Sociology of Human Rights, Islamic Movements, and Sociology of Middle East. Previously, Dr. Keskin taught as an instructor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Virginia Tech University and taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at James Madison and Radford Universities. He received his PhD in Sociology from Virginia Tech, with graduate certificate degrees in Africana Studies, Social and Political Thought, and International Research and Development. He is the founder and moderator of the Sociology of Islam mailing list, and the founder and editor of the Sociology of Islam Journal-BRILL and region editor of Critical Sociology-SAGE (Middle East and North Africa). His current research involves Modern Uyghur Nationalism, China and the Middle East, and US Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era. Editor of Sociology of Islam Journal (Brill) Region Editor of Critical Sociology (Middle East and North Africa) Book Review Editor of Societies Without Borders http://chinaandthemiddleeast.blogspot.com.tr/ Less

EXPERIENCE

• Shanghai University

  • Associatye professor
  • September 2016 to Present

• Maltepe University

  • Director of Graduate Program in International Relations
  • September 2015 to January 2017

• Portland State University

  • Coordinator of Middle East Studies and Assistant Professor
  • September 2009 to September 2015

• Virginia Tech University

  • Lecturer
  • August 2007 to May 2009

• James Madison University

  • Visiting Assistant Professor
  • August 2006 to May 2007

• Radford University

  • Instructor
  • January 2006 to May 2006

EDUCATION

• Virginia Tech

  • PhD
  • August 2003 to September 2009

  Sociology and Africana Studioes

Links

• Sociology, Global Studies and Africa
• Sociology, Global Stiudies and Human Rights
• China, Islam and Middle East
• GLOBAL SOCIOLOGY AND Global STUDIES