Publications



Book 
(2025) Pious Politics: Cultural Foundations of the Islamist Movement in Turkey. Cambridge University Press. Amazon, CUP*.

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​Peer-Reviewed Publications 
(2024) "Why is America Interested in Islam in Turkey?" Fieldwork and Problems of Gaining Trust in a Low-Trust Society. International Journal of Middle East Studies 56(1): 120-126. Article link. 

(2023) From Secularization to Religious Resurgence: An Endogenous Account. Theory and Society 52(4): 543-580. Article link. 

  • Distinguished Article Award, Section on Sociology of Religion, American Sociological Association, 2024

 (2022) When Global Scripts Do Not Resonate: International Minority Rights and Local Repertoires of Diversity in Southern Turkey. Qualitative Sociology 45(1): 149-187 (with Matthias Koenig). Article link. ​

  • Best Scholarly Article Award (honorable mention), Global and Transnational Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2022

(2021) Meaning of a Textbook: Religious Education, National Islam, and the Politics of Reform in the United Arab Emirates. Nations and Nationalism 27(4): 1181-1197 (with Sharif Hassan). Article link. 

(2015) Maintaining ethnic boundaries in “non-ethnic” contexts: constructivist theory and the sexual reproduction of diversity. Theory and Society 44(1): 33-64. Article link.  
  


Book Chapters, Book Reviews, and Other Publications
(2023) “Working for God (and Country): Religious Education and Economic Diversification in the United Arab Emirates.” In Mizanur R. and Al Azm A. (ed.) Social Change in the Gulf Region: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Singapore: Springer, pp. 383–396. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-7796-1. (with Sharif Ibrahim El Shishtawy Hassan). 

(2013) “From Religious Schooling to Mobilization in a Secular State.”  In “State of Europe,” ed. Peter Scholten, special issue, Perspectives on Europe 43(1):145–149.      

(2012)  Review of Islam’s Marriage with Neoliberalism: StateTransformation in Turkey by Yıldız Atasoy. New Perspectives on Turkey 46(2):250–53.
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Current Projects
“State Repression and the Dynamics of Dissent: Islamist Collective Action During Turkey’s 1997 Military Coup” (journal manuscript, under review).  
“A Cultural Theory of Mobilization” (journal manuscript).       
“Conspiracies and Mistrust: Topography of an Ethnographic Field site” (journal manuscript, with Eric Schoon).   
“Chasing a Moving Target: How Ethnographic and Historical Methods Can Help Us Analyze the Present” (journal manuscript).