Görkem Atsungur

Görkem is a recipient of modular doctoral program grant supported by the Higher Education Support Program (HESP) of the Open Society Foundations (OSF).

Besides his doctoral studies in the Political Science department (International Relations Major and Nationalism Studies Minor) at CEU, Görkem is a full-time faculty in the European Studies Department of the American University of Central Asia (AUCA), where he teaches several courses on European Politics and Society since 2012.

Görkem received his Mgr. in Political Science - European Politics from Masaryk University in the Czech Republic, his M.A. in European Studies from Istanbul Bilgi University, and his B.A in International Relations from Cyprus International University.

His research interests include (state) identity and foreign policy, biopolitics, imperialism, discourse analysis, post-structuralism, diaspora politics, digital ethnography, migration, and transnationalism.