Research areas

Culture sociology of intellectuals sociology of art and literature field theory comparative and historical method secularization secularism and secularity power-states in the 21st century Weber Simmel civic republicanism in sociology I am a historical sociologist of culture and religion with a specific focus on intellectuals. My most recent work on the forms of secularization in Turkish literary milieus was published in New Perspectives on Turkey and the American Journal of Sociology. I am currently on leave as a Fulbright scholar at Harvard University to develop this project into a book. I am also writing a Turkish-language book on civic republicanism and developing journal articles on populism reputational trajectories of dominated intellectuals and the links among the freedom of expression high-end technological development and security. My past work on politicization dynamics among U.S. poets was published in Political Power and Social Theory and in the American Sociological Review.