M.Hakan Yavuz, currently a Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah, works secularism, ethnic conflict, transnational Islamic networks, civil society and the public sphere. Yavuz received his earlier education in Ankara, Turkey, graduated with B.A. from Siyasal Bilgiler Fakultesi, Ankara. He received his M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and spent a semester at the Hebrew University, Israel (1990) and received his Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998 in political science. M. Hakan Yavuz wrote his dissertation on “The Construction of Political Islam, 1960-1996).”Professor Yavuz’s publications includes with Bayram Balci, Turkey’s July 15th Coup: What happened and why? (University of Utah Press, 2017); Islamic Political Identity in Turkey (Oxford University Press, 2003); Secularism and Muslim Democracy in Turkey (Cambridge University Press, 2009); with Peter Sluglett, eds. Diplomacy and War: 1877-78 Russo-Ottoman Wars and the Treaty of Berlin (University of Utah Press, 2011); with Isa Blumi, eds., War and Diplomacy: The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 and the Treaty of Berlin (Salt Lake City: University of Utah, 2013). with Feroz Ahmad, eds, War and Collapse: World War I and the Ottoman State (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2015).Yavuz also carried out an extensive fieldwork in Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan to examine the relationship between Islam and nationalism and the preservation and dissemination of Islamic knowledge under socialism. He is an author of more than 40 articles on Islam, nationalism, Kurdish question, neo-Ottomanism, and modern Turkish politics. He published in Comparative Politics, Critique, SAIS Review, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Central Asian Survey, Journal of Islamic Studies, and Journal of Palestine Studies. Some of his articles are translated into Arabic and Bosnian from English. He is a columnist in weekly Turkish Aksiyon and an editorial member of Critique, Silk Road, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, and Cemoti.Read more about this authorRead less about this author