Nevzat Soguk is a professor of political science at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, specializing in the areas of globalization, migration and critical international relations theory.[1]
Soguk graduated from Gazi University in Turkey in 1985. After a 1990 master's degree from Ohio University, he went to Arizona State University for doctoral study. He completed his Ph.D. there in 1995 with the dissertation Refugee Matters: Refugee Regimentations As Practices of Statecraft,[2] supervised by Richard K. Ashley.[3]
Soguk's books include:
- States and Strangers: Refugees and Displacements of Statecraft (University of Minnesota Press, 1999)[4]
- Globalization and Islamism: Beyond Fundamentalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011)[5]
- Arab Revolutions and World Transformations (edited with Anna M. Agathangelou, Routledge, 2013)[6]
- The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Theory, Modern Power, World Politics: Critical Investigations (edited with Scott G. Nelson, Routledge, 2016)
- Global Insurrectional Politics (edited, Routledge, 2018)[7]
In 1992, Soguk married Clare Hanusz (1968–2023), an immigration lawyer whom he met when they were both students at Ohio University. They had two children.[8]
"Doctoral Dissertations in Political Science". PS: Political Science and Politics. 29 (4): 816–835. December 1996. See p. 829.
Soguk, Nevzat (1995). Refugee Matters: Refugee Regimentations As Practices of Statecraft (Doctoral dissertation). Arizona State University. ProQuest 304168742. Reviews of States and Strangers:
- Peter W. Van Arsdale, "The deconstruction of refugees and the reconstruction of history", Human Rights & Human Welfare,
- Robyn Lui-Bright, Journal of Refugee Studies, doi:10.1093/jrs/12.4.431
- James Ron, "Imagining the world through refugee discourse", International Studies Review,, JSTOR 3186448
- Catherine Whitol de Wenden, Études internationales, doi:10.7202/704216ar
Reviews of Globalization and Islamism:
- Sarah Anabarja, Wimaya,
- Gabriele Marranci, Review of Middle East Studies, doi:10.1017/S2151348100002810, JSTOR 41496401
- Mehmet Özkan, "Secularism, modern state, and 'homo religiosus' societies", Insight Turkey, JSTOR 26299531
Reviews of Arab Revolutions and World Transformations:
Review of Global Insurrectional Politics: Joshua Sinai, Perspectives on Terrorism, JSTOR 26297854