Günes Murat Tezcür

Director and Professor,

School of Politics and Global Studies

Other ASU affiliations

Affiliate, Melikian Center

Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict

tezcur@asu.edu
Phone: 602-496-4823
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School of Politics and Global Studies Coor Hall - Sixth Floor 975 S. Myrtle Avenue Tempe, AZ 85287-3902
Mail code: 3902

Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio

Güneş Murat Tezcür (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2005) is the Director of the School of Politics and Global Studies at the Arizona State University. He is a scholar of comparative politics who explores political violence and politics of identity with a focus on Iranian, Kurdish, and Turkish human geography. His scholarship has appeared in many leading scholarly journals. His most recent book is Liminal Minorities: Religion and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies (Cornell University Press, 2024). He is also the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East: Shifting Identities, Borders, and the Experience of Minority Communities (I.B. Tauris, 2021). Prior to joining ASU in 2023, he was the Jalal Talabani Endowed Chair and Director at the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs at the University of Central Florida.

Education

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2005
B.A. Boğaziçi University, 2000

Curriculum Vitae

Google Scholar URL

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XkTrMGIAAAAJ&hl=en

ORCID Profile ID

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5722-6209

Courses

2024 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
POS 394	Special Topics