Social Theory - Political Economy - Sociology of Islam

Tugrul Keskin is an Assistant Professor of International and Middle Eastern Studies and an affiliated faculty of Black Studies, Sociology and at the Center For Turkish Studies at Portland State University. He is also the Middle East Studies Coordinator for International Studies. His research and teaching interests include the Sociology of Islam and the Middle East, Social and Political Theories, Islamic Movements, Sociology of Work, Sociology of Africa, and Modern Kurdish, Uyghur and Turkish Nationalism. Previously, Dr. Keskin taught as an instructor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Virginia Tech University and also as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at James Madison University and Radford University. He received his PhD in Sociology from Virginia Tech, with graduate certificate degrees in Africana Studies, Social and Political Thought, and International Research and Development. Outside of his instructor role, he is founder and moderator of the Sociology of Islam mailing list, and editor of the Sociology of Islam Journal: http://www.brill.com/publications/journals/sociology-islam His edited book, The Sociology of Islam: Secularism Economy and Politics was published by Garnet/Ithaca Press in June of 2011. Dr. Keskin is an international board member of Sociologists Without Borders, and serves as a book review editor of Societies Without Borders http://societieswithoutborders.org/. He has organized several study abroad courses to Qatar and Turkey.

Courses:

Virginia Tech University http://www.vt.edu

Introduction to Africana Studies – AFST 1814/Spring 2009 (Africana Studies)
Sociology of Africa - AFST 4354/Fall 2008 (Africana Studies)
Introduction to Sociology - SOC 1004/Fall 2008
Social Problems (Online) – SOC 2004/Spring 2008
Gender and Work – SOC 3614/Spring 2008
Sociology of Political Islam – Sociology and Religious Studies 2984/Fall 2007
Work in Modern Society (Sociology of Work) – SOC 3604/Fall 2006 and 2007
Minority Group Relations (Race, Ethnicity and Gender) – SOC 2024/Summer 2006
Social Inequality – SOC 3004/Summer 2005

James Madison University http://www.jmu.edu

Social Issues in Global Context – SOC 210-7 Fall 2006
Social Issues in Global Context – SOC 210-8 Fall 2006
Prejudice and Discrimination - SOC 336/Fall 2006
Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism – SOC 336/Spring 2007
Social Issues in a Global Context (China and Globalization) – 210-5 and 210-6 Spring 2007

Radford University http://www.radford.edu

Introduction to Sociology- SOC 110/Summer 2006
Social Problems – SOC 210/Spring 2006

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.
— Ahmed Ben Bella

Social Theory - Political Economy - Sociology of Islam - Sociology of Africa

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Market (Pazaryeri) in Istanbul