Spyros A. Sofos, Greece

Asst. Prof. Simon Fraser University, Canada

Spyros A. Sofos is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Global Humanities at Simon Fraser University, and an affiliated researcher at the SFU Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies and the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies. He has studied Political Science and International Studies, Sociology, Conflict Studies and Regional and Cross-cultural Studies at Panteion University, Greece, the University of Kent, UK and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and held teaching and research positions in the UK (London School of Economics and Political Science), and Sweden (Lund University).

His latest book, Turkish Politics and ‘The People’: Mass Mobilisation and Populism (Edinburgh University Press 2022), explores the emergence of populism in contemporary Turkey from a genealogical perspective. He has also co-authored Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey (Hurst and OUP) and Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks (Palgrave) and co-edited Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe (Routledge).

His research focuses on populism, collective action, polarisation and conflict, particularly in Turkey, the MENA region and Southeastern Europe. He is the lead editor of openDemocracy’s #rethinkingpopulism project.