Sefa Secen is an Assistant Professor of International Relations in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida. He is the co-author of The Muslim World in International Relations: Discourse, Power, and Pluralism in Global Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2026) and Demographic Anxiety in Turkey: Migration, Identity, and Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2026). His research has appeared in or is forthcoming in leading academic journals, including Perspectives on Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Political Behavior, Journal of Global Security Studies, Third World Quarterly, and Politics, Groups, and Identities, as well as public-facing outlets such as TIME, The Washington Post, and The Conversation.