Serhun Al

Serhun Al received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Utah in 2015. He is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Izmir University of Economics, Turkey. He was a visiting scholar at Ohio State University during the 2022-23 academic year. His research interests include politics of identity, nationalism and ethnic conflict, and security studies within the context of modern Turkey and the Kurdish Middle East. He is the author of Patterns of Nationhood and Saving the State in Turkey (Routledge, 2019) and the co-editor of Comparative Kurdish Politics in the Middle East (Palgrave, 2018). His articles have been published in journals such as Ethnopolitics, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Nationalities Papers, Globalizations, Journal of International Relations and Development, Turkish Studies, and Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.