Professor Caglar Keyder
LSE Centennial Professor
Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York in Binghamton and at Koc University in Istanbul
Email: C.Keyder@lse.ac.uk
Room: COW 2.13
Biography
Caglar Keyder is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York in Binghamton and at Koc University in Istanbul. He retired from Bogazici University in 2014. He was a founding editor of the journal New Perspectives on Turkey, and has served on several editorial boards, including the International Journal of Middle East Studies and Contemporary Sociology. He is a member of the Science Academy in Turkey.
Research Interests
His work has focused on the historical sociology of Ottoman Empire/Turkey, on agrarian transformations, and on urban studies. His books include Studies in Social History (1982), State and Class in Turkey (1987), Istanbul: Between the Global and the Local (1999), From the Ottoman Empire to the European Union (2003), and The End of Agriculture as We Knew It (2013).