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Sener Akturk received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation titled,  Redefining Ethnicity and Belonging: Persistence and Transformation in Regimes of Ethnicity in Germany, Turkey, Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation.  He holds a B.A. in Political Science and an M.A. in International Relations, both from the University of Chicago. He works on issues of ethnic and religious diversity, nationalism and supranationalism, around the world with a particular emphasis on the post-Soviet and the Islamic world. He has published and upcoming articles in the European Journal of Sociology, Middle Eastern Studies, Nationalities Papers, Theoria, Ab Imperio, and Central Eurasian Studies Review. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, after which he will assume his position as an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Koc University, Istanbul.