Spyros A. Sofos

Spyros A. Sofos is an Assistant Professor in Global Humanities at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Previously he was a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics & Political Science, UK; Lecturer at Lund University, Sweden; Kingston University & the University of Portsmouth, and held visiting positions at Siena, Tartu & Istanbul Bilgi University.

He is interested in societal insecurity, identity & collective action & the study of nationalism, populism and Islamism as well as identity politics among Muslims in Europe & North America. His latest book - Turkish Politics and ‘The People’: Mass Mobilisation and Populism (Edinburgh University Press) – explores the emergence of populism in Turkey & its genealogy as a tradition of action & discourse. His other publications include Nation & Identity in Contemporary Europe (co-edited - Routledge), Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece & Turkey (co-authored - Oxford University Press), and Islam in Europe: Public Spaces & Civic Networks (co-authored - Palgrave). Spyros initiated and is the lead editor of openDemocracy’s #RethinkingPopulism.