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Sefa Secen

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Sefa Secen

Post-Doctoral Scholar

secen.3@osu.edu

1010F Derby Hall
154 N Oval Mall

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Areas of Expertise

  • Security Studies
  • Migrants/Refugees
  • Middle East Politics
  • European Politics
  • Qualitative and Multi-Method Research
  • Human and Minority Rights

Education

  • Ph.D, Syracuse University
  • Summer School in Forced Management, University of Oxford
  • M.A., Syracuse University
Sefa Secen is a postdoctoral scholar at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State and a research fellow on the Islamic Family Law Project at Syracuse University. He is also a commissioning editor at E-International Relations. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University in July 2022. He primarily studies party policies and public attitudes toward refugees with a focus on the social construction of threat and security perceptions. His regional specializations are the Middle East and Western Europe. His coauthored book project, under contract with Cambridge University Press (CUP), investigates how the new immigrant and refugee flows have shaped Turkish politics and the historically competing Turkish and Kurdish nationalist visions in particular. Drawing on an original media dataset, party manifestos, and survey data, this book offers valuable insights into the complex interactions between refugee politics, electoral dynamics, and the emergence of new political tendencies in Turkey. He has been published in leading journals and media outlets, including the Journal of Global Security Studies, European Politics and Society, Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, Forced Migration Review, and the Washington Post. His research has been funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Andrew Berlin Family National Security Research Fund, the Moynihan Institute at Syracuse University, and the Office of International Affairs (OIA) at Ohio State.