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My publications include three monographs, and an edited volume, along with over 40 scholarly articles and chapters, complemented by a range of op-eds. My latest work, Turkish Politics and ‘The People’: Mass Mobilisation and Populism was released by Edinburgh University Press in September 2022. In 2019, in collaboration with openDemocracy, I initiated #RethinkingPopulism in partnership with openDemocracy in 2019, which, in 2022, became an independent university-supported platform, with me as the lead editor. As a commentator, I contribute regularly to outlets like The Conversation, the LSE Blog, OpenDemocracy, Dialoguemos and Truthout addressing various social and political topics.

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	📂 Education
Ph.D.	Politics, Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies | University of Copenhagen
BSc; First Class Hons	Political Science and International Studies | Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences | School of Political Science & International Studies Grade: Excellent
	📂 Training
Certificate	Transforming Civil Conflicts | European Network University & Centre for Conflict Resolution, Department of Peace Studies | Bradford University
Certificate	Post Conflict Politics: State and Society relations | European Network University & Centre for Conflict Resolution, Department of Peace Studies | Bradford University
	📂 Professional Experience
Current	Assistant Professor | Department of Global Humanities | Simon Fraser University
2022-2023	Senior Fellow | Middle East Centre | The London School of Economics & Political Science
2021-2022	Research Officer | Middle East Centre | The London School of Economics & Political Science
2012-2021	Lecturer/Research Coordinator | Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) | Lund University
2000-2011	Senior Research Fellow | Department of Politics | Kingston University Director | MSc in International Conflict
1996-2000	Senior Research Fellow/Senior Lecturer | School of Social and Historical Studies | University of Portsmouth
1993-1996	Research Associate | School of Social and Historical Studies | University of Portsmouth
	📂 Selected Publications
Books	(2022) Turkish Politics and ‘The People’: Mass Mobilisation and Populism, Edinburgh UP.
	(2013) Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks, Palgrave. (co-authored with R Tsagarousianou) (2008) Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey, Oxford UP. (co-authored with U Özkirimli) –(2008) Greek translation: Το Βάσανο της Ιστορίας, Καστανιώτης –(2013) Turkish translation: Tarihin Cenderesinde: Türk ve Yunan Milliyetçiliği, Istanbul Bilgi University Press
Edited Book	(1996) Nation & Identity in Contemporary Europe, Routledge (co-edited with Brian Jenkins)
Edited Journal Issues	(2012) Multiculturalisms, Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary European Studies 20:3 (1998) Borders & Boundaries, Special Issue of Journal of Area Studies, 12
Peer Reviewed Articles (selected)	(2022) ‘Mobilizing Pity: The Dialectics of Narrative Production and Erasure in the Case of Iran’s #BlueGirl’, Globalizations 19:2. (co-authored) (2021) ‘Space and the Emotional Topography of Populism in Turkey: The Case of Hagia Sophia’ Cogent Social Sciences 7:1. (2018) ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason: Gezi in Historical Perspective’ Journal of Historical Sociology 31:1 (2001) ‘Macedonia at the Crossroads’ Journal of Southern Europe & the Balkans 3:2. (2001)’Yugoslavia: The Day After’ Mediterranean Politics 6:3. (2000) ‘Reluctant Europeans? European Integration and the Transformation of Turkish Politics’ South European Society & Politics 5:2 (1999) ‘Kosovo: History, Identity, Ethnic Conflict’ Mediterranean Politics 3:3. (1998) ‘The Greek Civil War and its Legacy: Politics and Identity in Post-War Greece’, Historical Critical Review/Yuksabipyoung, 42:1. (in Korean) (1997) ‘Towards the New Millennium: the politics of identity in contemporary Europe’, Journal of Area Studies, 10. (co-authored) (1996) ‘Inter-ethnic Violence and Gendered Constructions of Ethnicity in Former Yugoslavia’ Social Identities 2:1. (1996) ‘Nationalism, Mass Communications and Public Rituals in Former Yugoslavia: The Case of Serbia’ Contemporary Politics 2:1. (1996) ‘From “Yugoslav” to National Cultures: Ethnic Conflict and the Nationalization of the Public Spheres of Former Yugoslavia’ Res Publica, 2.
Peer Reviewed Papers (selected)	(2024) ‘Turkey’s Presence in the Western Balkans: Achieving Cooperation and Sustainable Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina’ (PeaceRep Report: Global Transitions Series). (2023) ‘Ecologies of Belonging and Exclusion in Urban Kuwait: Towards An Urban Co-Designed Approach’ LSE Middle East Centre Kuwait Programme Paper Series | 21 | October 2023 (2023) ‘Turkey as a Mediator (Global Transitions Report). PeaceRep: The Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform, University of Edinburgh (2023) ‘Transnational Dynamics in the MENA Region: Exploring Policy Responses’| LSE Middle East Centre Paper Series (67). (2023) ‘Navigating the Horn: Turkey’s Forays in East Africa’, PeaceRep: The Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform, University of Edinburgh. (2022) ‘Peacebuilding in Turbulent Times: Turkey in MENA and Africa’ LSE Middle East Centre and PeaceRep: The Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform, University of Edinburgh. – Also as ‘Çalkantılı Zamanlarda Barış İnşası: Türkiye’nin Orta Doğu, Kuzey ve sahra-altı Afrika’daki Rolü’ LSE Middle East Centre and PeaceRep.
Book Chapters (selected)	(2017) ‘Alone in the City: Gezi as a Moment of Transgression’ in O. Hemer, H-Å. Persson & T. Tufte (eds) In the Aftermath of Gezi: From Social Movement to Social Change: Palgrave. (2016) ‘Protest Politics in Turkey’ in Simin Fadaee (ed) Understanding social movements in the Global South. Routledge. (co-authored) (2014) ‘Rallying for Gezi, or Metaphors of Aporia and Empowerment’ in U. Özkirimli (ed) The Making of a Protest Movement in Turkey: #occupy gezi, Palgrave. (2014) ‘Beyond the Intractability of the Greek-Macedonian Dispute’, in J. Lozanoska (ed) The Name Issue Revisited, Skopje: MIC. (2010) ‘Nationalism in Greece and Turkey: Modernity, Enlightenment, Westernization’, in A. Aktar et al.(eds), The Troubled Triangle: Nationalism in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey, Palgrave. (co-authored) (2009) ‘Tormented by History: Greece, Turkey and the Territorial Imagination’ in O. Anastasakis, K. Oktem, K. Nikolaidis (eds) Under the Long Shadows of Europe: Greeks and Turks in the Era of Post-Nationalism, Leiden: E. J. Brill. (co-authored)    (2009) ‘Colonizing the Past: History and Memory in Greece and Turkey’ in F.A. Gemenne and S. G. Carvalho (eds) Nations and their Histories, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave.  (co-authored) (2001) ‘European Integration and the Transformation of Turkish Politics’ in K. Featherstone and G. Kazamias (eds), Europeanization and the Southern Periphery, London: Frank Cass. (2001) ‘Culture, Media and the Politics of Disintegration in Former Yugoslavia’, in T. Allen & J. Seaton (eds), The Media of Conflict: War Reporting and Representations of Ethnic Violence, London: Zed Press. (1996) ‘Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe; A Theoretical Perspective’, in B. Jenkins and S. A. Sofos (eds), Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe, London: Routledge. (co-authored) (1996) ‘Politics, Culture and National Identity in former Yugoslavia’, in B. Jenkins and S. A. Sofos (eds), Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe, London: Routledge. (1994) ‘Popular Identity and Political Culture in Post-dictatorial Greece: Towards a Cultural Approach to Populism’, in N. Demertzis (ed.) Greek Political Culture, Athens: Odysseas (in Greek). (1993) ‘The Politics of Identity: Nationalism in Contemporary Greece’, in J. Amodia (ed.) The Resurgence of Nationalist Movements in Europe, Bradford.
Shorter Articles (selected)	(2023) ‘Erdoğan’s Electoral Victory Imperils Democratic Forces in Turkey’, Truthout (May 30, 2023) (2022) ‘Students in Tehran Protest Gender Segregation in University Dining Hall’, (with Nazanin Shahrokni) By Nazanin Shahrokni & Spyros A. Sofos , Truthout (October 28, 2022) (2020) ‘What Is in a Place? Hagia Sophia in the Affective Topography of Populism in Turkey’, Jadaliyya, (August 2020) (2019) ‘Mobilizing Pity: Iranian Women on the Long Road to Azadi Stadium’, Jadaliyya, (October 2019) with N. Shahrokni (2019) ’Securitizing the “Other” in the European Far-Right Imaginary’, Political Trends & Dynamics in Southeast Europe, 2019, 2, pp. 23-26. (2019)“Bringing gender into the populism debate: a guided walk”, editorial essay in Open Democracy (2019 December16) https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/rethinking-populism/bringing-gender-populism-debate-guided-walk/ (2018) ‘The reconfiguration of Swedish nationalism after the Syrian refugee “crisis”’, in Goethe Institut Schweden, Nya former av nationalism (April 2018) https://www.goethe.de/ins/se/sv/kul/sup/nnm/21257746.html 2018 ‘The Turkish election as a warning against the irresistible charms of populism’, OpenDemocracy (2018 July 13) https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/turkish-election-as-warning-against-irresistible-charms-of-populism/ 2016 ‘Turkey: of coups and popular resistance’, Open Democracy (2016 July 21) https://www.opendemocracy.net/spyros-sofos/turkey-of-coups-and-popular-resistance 2015 ‘Why I will be voting YES in Sunday’s Greek referendum’ (1 July 2015) openDemocracy 2015:‘#QuiSommesNous? A Socratic dialogue on “L’Affaire Charlie Hebdo”’ (13 January 2015) openDemocracy 2015 ‘Landscape in the Mist: SYRIZA and Greek-Macedonian Relations’ Potička Misao: Croatian Political Science Review (28 January 2015) 2008 ‘Grassroots Diplomacy in the Southern Balkans’. The Bridge: : A bimonthly review on European integration, SE Europe & the SE Mediterranean. 9(2) – also available at https://issuu.com/the_bridge_magazine/docs/the_bridge_magazine_09
Op-eds   (2010-)	2023 ‘Nagorno-Karabakh: What’s next for the South Caucasus region following Azerbaijan’s aggression against Armenians?’ in The Conversation (October 9, 2023) Spyros A. Sofos, October 9, 2023 2020 ‘Narrating the pandemic: COVID-19 as a feature of Turkey’s political landscape’ Institute for Social Responsibility (July 07 2020) 2018 ‘Cypriot hopes for unification are on life support, but not doomed’ in The Conversation (January 22, 2018) 2017 ‘¿Qué significa el reconocimiento de Trump a Jerusalén como la capital de Israel para el Medio Oriente? in Dialoguemos (co-authored – December 12, 2017) 2017 ‘The Jerusalem Question in a Regional Context’ in The Globe Post (co-authored –December 12, 2017) 2017 ‘What Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel means for the Middle East’ in The Conversation (co-authored -December 7, 2017) 2017 also in French as ‘Jérusalem, le nœud gordien des Israéliens et des Palestiniens’ in The Conversation (French Edition-December 7, 2017) 2015 Turkish reactions on the Greek antiracism Law’ (co-authored), Council of European Studies, Columbia University 2013 ‘Taksim Revisited’. Transconflict. 2013 ‘A protest like no other’. Transconflict. 2012 ‘Elections in Greece’ Diplomaatia no. 106/107 • June 2012, also translated in Estonian as ‘Protest kokkuhoiu vastu’ 2011: ‘Montenegro – a census like no other?’, Transconflict 2011: ‘Macedonia – time to contemplate genuine coexistence‘. Transconflict.
	📂Doctoral supervision
	Stacey Tamara Al Darmaki ‘A comparative analysis of the recruitment, deployment and treatment of child soldiers by non-state armed groups in Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and El Salvador’, Kingston University 2007-2012 Bilgen Sütçüoğlu ‘Redefining the Nation: Nâzim Hikmet and Nationalist Discourse in Contemporary Turkey’, Kingston University 2005-2010 Ioannis Sygkelos ‘Nationalism from the left: the case of the Bulgarian Communist Party during WWII and the early post-war years’, Kingston University 2001–2005. Michelle Pace ‘The Ugly Duckling of Europe: The Mediterranean in the Foreign Policy of the European Union’, University of Portsmouth 1997-2001
	📂Postdoctoral supervision
	Özge Özdüzen ‘Spaces of hope in authoritarian Turkey: Istanbul’s interconnected geographies of post-Occupy activism’ Swedish Institute-funded postdoctoral project, Lund University 2016-17
	📂Doctoral examinations
	Five PhD theses: Bangor University (external examiner), London School of Economics (external examiner), Loughborough University (external examiner), Kingston University (external examiner) and Kingston University (internal examiner)
	📂Citizenship
	Steering Committee Member, SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies, Simon Fraser University 2024- 1st Kurdish Studies Conference Research Coordinator: Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University and Middle East in the Contemporary World Swedish Strategic Research Area 2014-21 Co-Founder and Lecturer: Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul Human Rights Summer School 2015-2018 Director: MSc in International Conflict, Kingston University. Initiated, lead through validation and established programme 2001–6 Co-Founder and Management committee member: Centre for European Studies Research, University of Portsmouth 1996-2000
	📂Editorships
	Lead Editor #Rethinkingpopulism, 2019- Editorial Committee Member, Journal of Contemporary European Studies; Taylor & Francis 2014-22 Book Series Editor, Islam and Nationalism, Palgrave, 2012-18 Managing Editor, Journal of Contemporary European Studies; 1999-2013 Editorial Board Member: Journal of Southern Europe & the Balkans;Taylor & Francis 2001-8 Editorial Board Member: Mediterranean Politics; Taylor & Francis 1996-2003 (Profile Editor 1998-2001, Book Reviews Editor 1996-98) Editorial Board Member: Journal of Area Studies; Taylor & Francis 1995-99

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