Faculty Member, Political Science
About
I am an assistant professor of political science at Fordham University's Rose Hill campus in the Bronx. My research and teaching focus on urban comparative politics, the politics of immigration, religious, ethnic and national identity, and urban neighborhood space. My current research focuses on the special ties that connect the identity formation process of immigrant minorities in the city to the neighborhoods they live in. My book manuscript, entitled Neither Here Nor There: Identity, Integration, and Berlin’s Immigrant Neighborhoods, explores the process in which 2nd generation Turkish immigrant women in Berlin, Germany find a home in their urban immigrant neighborhood. Like them, the neighborhood feels neither exclusively German nor exclusively Turkish, but is a hybrid that lies somewhere in-between. I am currently in the process of researching the dynamics of similar processes in Istanbul. I am also is also interested in the specific shapes and patters of gentrification and segregation in New York City.
