Burak Gürel

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I finished my Ph.D. in Sociology at Johns Hopkins University in 2015. I am currently an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and the co-director of the Center for Asian Studies at Koç University.

My scholarly interests include political economy, historical sociology, rural development, social movements, and welfare politics, with a focus on China, India, and Turkey. I teach courses on social theory, historical sociology, political sociology, and Asian political economy.

I was a Fox International Fellow at the MacMillan Center at Yale University in 2006-07 and a visiting researcher at the Center for Rural China Governance at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2012, the Center for Development Studies in Trivandrum, Kerala in 2013, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University in 2016, and the International Institute of Social Studies at the Hague in 2019 and 2023. I also worked as a supervisor researcher in the Emerging Markets Welfare Project funded by the European Research Council between 2017 and 2021. I am currently a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. I am a member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

For more details, please see my CV and academic webpages GoogleScholar, Researchgate, Academia, LinkedIn, and Web of Science. I can be reached at bgurel@ku.edu.tr.