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Sefa Secen is an assistant professor of political science at Nazareth University in Rochester, NY. Prior to joining Nazareth, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.Dr. Secen’s research focuses on international relations theory, international security, migration, and political behavior, with a regional emphasis on the Middle East and Western Europe. He is the co-author of two forthcoming books: The Muslim World in International Relations Theory (under contract with Cambridge University Press) and Migration, Nationalism, and Demographic Anxiety in Modern Turkey (under contract with Edinburgh University Press). Secen has appeared in leading academic journals and public outlets, including the Journal of Global Security Studies, Politics, Groups, and Identities, European Politics and Society, Turkish Studies, Forced Migration Review, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, Migration and Development, TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, and The Conversation. His work has been supported by grants from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Andrew Berlin Family National Security Research Fund, the Institute for Humane Studies, the Moynihan Institute at Syracuse University, the Office of International Affairs at Ohio State University, and the Office of Research, Scholarship, and Innovation at Nazareth University.