• PLSI 250 Intro to CP
• PLSI 721

Other Course Pages

• PLSI/SOC 424 Social Movements (Spring 2008)
• PLSI 410 Middle East Politics (Spring 2008)
• PLSI 720 Comparative Politics Graduate Seminar (Fall 2007)
• PLSI 721 Social Movements in the Islamic World (Fall 2006)
• PLSI 425 Imagining Power (Spring 2006)
• PLSI 420 Middle East State-Society Relations (fall 2005)

 

Kurdish New Year Celebrations, Diyarbakır, Turkey. March 2004.

View of Hasankeyf, Turkey, June 2006.

Video and Photo Galleries

• Tunceli/Dersim summer 2008

• Scotland summer 2008

• Erbil (Hawler), Sept 2006

• Hasankeyf, summer 2006

• Diyarbakir New Year Festival, Spring 2006

• Diyarbakir election campaign and New Year festival, Spring 2004

• Watch my documentary film, "Campaigning With Osman" (2005, 26 minutes) Please note that the on-line quality is not as good as the DVD (available for free upon request).

Selected Publications

• “Silence and Voice: Turkish Policies and Kurdish Resistance in the mid-20^th century,” in The Evolution of Kurdish Nationalism, ed. Mohammed Ahmed and Michael Gunter (Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Press, 2007).
• “Activists in Office: Pro-Kurdish Contentious Politics in Turkey.” Ethnopolitics 5:2 (June 2006)
• "Institutionalizing Virtual Kurdistan West: Transnational Networks and Ethnic Contention in International Affairs," in Boundaries and Belonging: States and Societies in the Struggle to Shape Identities and Local Practices, ed. by Joel Migdal (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
• “Relocating Dersim: Turkish State-Building and Kurdish Resistance, 1931-1938,” New Perspectives on Turkey 23 (Fall 2000): 5-30.
• “Allies and Enemies: Pro-Kurdish Parties in Turkish Politics, 1990-1994,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 31:4 (November 1999): 631-656.

Links

• Middle East and Islamic Studies at SFSU (coming in mid-June)
• Department of Political Science
• European Journal of Turkish Studies (EJTS)

• Pasha the wonderdog
• Jinn the wonderpup
• Various photos