Social Theory - Political Economy - Sociology of Islam

We will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears and through all our sadness ... We will prevail ...

-- Nikki Giovanni, University Distinguished Professor, poet, activist

I want to extend my deepest, sincerest, and most profound sympathies to the families of these victims ...

-- Virginia Tech President Charles W. Steger

We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on. We are embracing our mourning. We are Virginia Tech ...

-- Nikki Giovanni, University Distinguished Professor, poet, activist

A Short Biography

Tugrul Keskin
Assistant Professor of International Studies
Affiliated Faculty of Black Studies
Sociology and Center for Turkish Studies
Middle East Studies Coordinator (INTL)
Portland State University

Editor of Sociology of Islam Journal (Brill)
Region Editor of Critical Sociology (Middle East and North Africa)
Book Review Editor of Societies Without Borders

Courses:

Introduction to International Studies INTL 201

Middle East Studies INTL 247

African Studies INTL 211

Islamic Movements INTL 332

Sociology of the Middle East INTL/SOC 483

Sociology of Africa INTL/BST 372

Foundations of Global Studies INTL 390

Work and Labor (Seminar) 407

Development, Urbanization and Work (Seminar) INTL 407

Human Rights and International Studies (Seminar) INTL 407

Think-Tanks, International and Non-Governmental Organizations INTL 399

China in the Middle East and Africa INTL 399

Education:

Ph.D. 2009 Sociology and Virginia Tech

Graduate Certificate 2009 Africana Studies

Graduate Certificate 2009 Social and Political Theory

Graduate Certificate 2009 International Research and Development and

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

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Virginia Tech. Massacre