I pursued my academic training across several countries, including Turkey, the Netherlands, Italy, United Kingdom, and USA. My scholarly interests encompass a broad range of social, political, cultural, and legal issues. I am particularly intrigued by the complexities emerging from human behaviours, collective actions, and social dissent, which pose multifaceted challenges and dilemmas that warrant thorough examination, debate, and even refutation.

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My research adopts a comparative sociological approach. My projects connect historical and contemporary contexts to analyse how societies construct, deconstruct, and respond to violence, conflict, crime, and injustice. I place diverse cases in conversation across regions, regimes, and time periods to examine the mechanisms through which oppression, inequality, and forms of collective harm emerge and evolve. This perspective helps me to expose both the universal patterns and the situated local experiences that shape human suffering, resilience, social transformation, and resistance.

As a social and cultural critic, I study how power is embedded in moral vocabularies, political institutions, social structures, and everyday life. My work interrogates the subtle and explicit ways in which authority, ideology, and affect sustain inequality across communities, gendered regimes, states, and cultural settings. I am drawn to questions that expose the afterlives of injustice and how people navigate them in their struggles for dignity and belonging. Through this lens, I seek to contribute to global sociology by expanding its theoretical and empirical horizons. My goal is to build connections between theory, history, and lived experience by linking local stories to global structures and advancing new ways of understanding how societies confront dissent and imagine futures of justice.

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I have generated around £ 2.9 million funding either as a PI or Co-PI. My research projects have received funding from prestigious organisations, including the British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, the European Council, AHRC, the Max Planck Institute.

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As a gay man, I am dedicated to advocating for LGBTQI+ academics and providing mentorship to emerging scholars. My active participation in the ISA's LGBTQA Caucus reflects my strong commitment to this cause. Additionally, I am collaborating with colleagues to develop structured mentorship initiatives aimed at better supporting early-career LGBTQI+ scholars. If you are a member of the LGBTQI+ academic community seeking guidance or mentorship, you can reach out to me. I am available to offer voluntary mentorship to aspiring researchers, including PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows.