UMUT UZER is Professor of International Relations at the Department of Sociology at Istanbul Technical University. He is the author of two books, namely An Intellectual History of Turkish Nationalism (2016) and Identity and Turkish Foreign Policy (2011) and has published “Conservative Narrative: Contemporary Neo-Ottomanist Approaches in Turkish Politics,” Middle East Critique 29 (3) (2020), as well as other articles on Palestine and Turkey, Israeli-Turkish relations, Turkish nationalism and neo-Ottomanism in Middle East Policy, Israel Studies Review, Israel Affairs, Turkish Studies, Journalism, Journal of the Middle East and Africa and Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs.
Dr. Uzer was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and has taught at Smith College, University of Utah and Boğaziçi University. For his doctoral studies, he attended University of Virginia, where he wrote his Ph.D. dissertation with William Quandt.