Güneş Murat Tezcür

Güneş Murat Tezcür (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2005) is a Professor of Political Science and the Director of the School of Politics and Global Studies at the Arizona State University. As a scholar of comparative politics, Güneş explores the trajectories of political violence and politics of identity with a focus on Iranian, Kurdish, and Turkish human geography as well as the United States. He is the author or editor of five books and has published 38 scholarly articles and book chapters. His most recent book is Liminal Minorities: Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies (2024) that won multiple awards. He is also the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics (2022).