Faculty

Sefa Secen

Assistant Professor

Contact

Home Campus: Tampa
Office: SOC 377
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Education

Ph.D., Political Science, Maxwell School of Syracuse University, 2022

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Bio

Sefa Secen is an Assistant Professor of International Relations in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida. Prior to joining USF, he was an Assistant Professor at Nazareth University and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State University. He earned my PhD in Political Science from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. His research examines international relations theory, international security, migration, and religion and politics, with a regional focus on the Middle East and Western Europe.

He is the co-author of The Muslim World in International Relations: Discourse, Power, and Pluralism in Global Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2026) and Demographic Anxiety in Turkey: Migration, Identity, and Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2026). His research has appeared in leading academic journals, including Perspectives on Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Political Behavior, Journal of Global Security Studies, Third World Quarterly, and Politics, Groups, and Identities, as well as public-facing outlets such as TIME, The Washington Post, and The Conversation.

​His research has been supported by grants from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Andrew Berlin Family National Security Research Fund, the Institute for Humane Studies, the Moynihan Institute at Syracuse University, and the Office of International Affairs at The Ohio State University.