Contact
Department of Political Science
Swarthmore College
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore
PA
19081
United States
ABOUT
Osman Balkan is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College. His research and teaching interests include immigration, race/ethnicity, Islam, identity, and necropolitics.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Identity/Representation
Political Economy
Transnationalism
Ethnography
Comparative
Kurdish Studies
Turkish Studies
Cultural Studies
Ethnic Groups
Islamic Studies
Minorities
Nationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Europe
Turkey
Specialties
Immigration, Race/ethnicity, Islam, Necropolitics
Languages
English (native)
Turkish (native)
French (intermediate)
German (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2016
| Political Science
| University of Pennsylvania
BA
| 2005
| Political Science
| Reed College
Abstracts
Death in the Diaspora: Migration and the Necropolitics of Belonging
Transnational Afterlives: Burial, Repatriation, and the Politics of Belonging among Muslims in Germany
