Sefa Secen

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Nazareth University in Rochester, NY. I was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University. I received my PhD in Political Science from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. I study political discourses about migrants as well as political behaviors of migrants using a mixed-method approach. My research draws on both qualitative data (interviews and print, digital, and social media content) and quantitative data (survey experiments). My regional specializations are the Middle East and Western Europe. My research has been published in leading journals and media outlets including the Journal of Global Security Studies, Politics, Groups, and Identities, European Politics and Society, Turkish Studies, Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, Forced Migration Review, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, the Washington Post, and the Conversation. My 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 University.