I received my training and education in Turkey, the Netherlands, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. My familial history and outlook on life have conditioned me to embrace cosmopolitan values founded on equality and justice. I am broadly interested in social, political, cultural, and legal issues in which human behavior, collective action, and dissent, along with their different consequences, provide us with a complicated panorama and conundrum that must be resolved, debated, and even sometimes refuted. In my research projects, I have sought to explore the origins and consequences of crime, conflict, violence, injustice, inequality, cultural transitions, political and social movements. You can have access to the outputs of my research projects and download them from this website. My research program aims to demystify complicated local and global processes in order to foster positive changes in the communities and to have a significant impact on people's lives.

As a social and cultural critic, my research and approach to a range of issues incorporate strong critical perspectives, and I seek to challenge entrenched power hierarchies between communities, states, classes, cultures, sexes, races, and resources by exploring the disastrous consequences of injustice and inequality across time and space. This intellectual curiosity also prompted me to take a comparative and critical approach to formulating the research design of the subjects that I study.

As a gay man, I advocate for LGBTQ+ academics and mentor early-career scholars both individually and through the ISA's LGBTQA Caucus. Additionally, I am currently working with other colleagues to build a more organized way of mentoring and supporting early-career LGBTQ+ scholars more effectively in the UK, as well as serving as a positive role model for our community. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you are a member of the LGBTQ+ academic community needing help or mentorship. I am very pleased to mentor early-career researchers, such as PhD fellows and postdoctoral colleagues.