Editor-in-Chief
Emrah Konuralp is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher on right-wing populism at Humboldt University in Berlin. He is also an Associate Professor of Political Science at Iğdır University in Turkey. He was previously a faculty member in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at İstanbul Yeni Yüzyıl University for three years. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Political Science and Public Administration from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. His research interests include gender politics, identity, theories of nationalism and ethnicity, secularization, comparative politics, Turkish politics, and the political economy of health. He has published articles on identity, multiculturalism, nationalism, post-secularism, and theories of the state. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the biannually published refereed journal on social sciences, Lectio Socialis.
Managing Editor
Dr. Batuhan Yıldız completed his undergraduate studies in Sociology at the University of Nottingham in 2015. He received his master’s degree in International Relations from Istanbul Bilgi University in 2018 and completed his PhD in Sociology at Middle East Technical University in 2024. His areas of expertise include the study of social structures, the sociology of everyday life, political sociology, and the social histories of China, the Middle East, and post-Soviet geographies. He currently works as a part-time lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Bahçeşehir University.