Haldun Gülalp recently retired as Professor of Political Science at Yıldız Technical University and currently chairs the Global Studies and Class Strategies (GSCS) Research Group in Istanbul, Turkey. Previously, he taught sociology at Hamilton College (New York) and Boğaziçi University (Istanbul). He has held visiting professorships at George Washington University, Northwestern University, and UCLA, as well as research fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Oxford University. He has published widely in the fields of political sociology, sociology of religion, secularism and citizenship.