Mustafa E. Gurbuz Present Post-Doctoral Scholar, Department of Sociology, University of South Florida

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1 Mustafa E. Gurbuz University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave, Cooper Hall 226 Tampa, FL Web: Office: Visa Status: Permanent Resident EMPLOYMENT 2012-Present Post-Doctoral Scholar,, University of South Florida EDUCATION 2012 Ph.D. in Sociology, Kurdish Ethnic and Islamic Mobilizations in Turkey: A Study of Rival Movements Committee: Mary Bernstein (Chair), Charles Kurzman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Nancy Naples, Bandana Purkayastha 2008 M.A. in Sociology, 2004 M.A. in International Relations, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey 2002 B.A. in International Relations, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Race & Ethnic Relations Collective Behavior & Social Movements Political Sociology Global/Transnational Sociology Culture Sociology of Islam and the Middle East AWARDS & HONORS 2010 CLAS (College of Liberal Arts and Science) Dean s Award, 2010 Ron Taylor Award for the Best Graduate Student Paper, Page1

2 2009 Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Sociology Department, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship - Awarded each semester on a competitive basis; Recipient of the award every semester- PUBLICATIONS ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS Forthcoming Gurbuz, Mustafa Toward a Sociology of Global Islam: Revisiting Muslim Ethnicities in the West Sociological Forum 2012 Gurbuz, Mustafa Sold Out to the Enemy : Emerging Symbolic Boundaries in Kurdish Politics and the Strategic Uses of Labeling Treason European Journal of Turkish Studies 14: Gurbuz, Mustafa and Mary Bernstein. Thou Shall Not Protest!: Multi- Institutional Politics, Strategic Non-Confrontation and Islamic Mobilizations in Turkey Research in Social Movements, Conflict, and Change 34: Gurbuz, Mustafa Over the Bodies of the T-Girls: The Headscarf Ban as a Secular Effort to Monopolize Islam in Turkey Middle East Critique 18 (3): Gurbuz, Mustafa and Gulsum Gurbuz-Kucuksari. Between Sacred Codes and Secular Consumer Society: The Practice of Headscarf Adoption among American College Girls Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 29 (3): Wallace, Michael, Andrew S. Fullerton and Mustafa Gurbuz Union Organizing Effort and Success in the U.S., Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 27 (1): BOOK CHAPTERS & CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDITED VOLUMES 2013 Gurbuz, Mustafa. Revitalization of Kurdish Islamic Sphere and Revival of Hizbullah in Turkey. Pp in Fevzi Bilgin and Ali Sarihan, eds., Understanding Turkey s Kurdish Question. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books Gurbuz, Mustafa and Bandana Purkayastha. From Gandhi to Gülen: The Habitus of Non-aggressive Action. Pp in Islam in the Age of Global Challenges: Alternative Perspectives of the Gülen Movement, edited by H. Ali Yurtsever, Somerset, NJ: Tughra Books. Page2

3 Reprinted in The Muslim World and Politics in Transition: Creative Contributions of the Gülen Movement pp edited by Greg Barton, Paul Weller, and Ihsan Yilmaz. London: Continuum (2013). Reprinted (in Turkish) in Şiddetsiz Aksiyon pp Istanbul: Nil (2011) Gurbuz, Mustafa Identity Politics. Encyclopedia of Social Problems, ed. Vincent N. Parrillo, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Gurbuz, Mustafa Collective Consciousness. Encyclopedia of Social Problems, ed. Vincent N. Parrillo, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Gurbuz, Mustafa Performing Moral Opposition: Musings on the Strategy and Identity in the Gülen Movement, Pp in Muslim World in Transition: Contributions of the Gülen Movement, ed. İhsan Yılmaz, London: Leeds Metropolitan University Press. COMMENTARY & BOOK REVIEWS IN REFEREED JOURNALS 2013 Book Review: Muslim Reformers in Iran and Turkey: The Paradox of Moderation by Güneş Murat Tezcür, Contemporary Islam 7 (2): Book Review: Democracy in Modern Iran: Islam, Culture, and Political Change by Ali Mirsepassi, Mobilization 15 (4): Book Review: Why the French Don t Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space by John R. Bowen and The Politics of the Veil by Joan Wallach Scott, British Journal of Sociology 60 (4): Which Right Islam? A Commentary on Etzioni and Bergesen, Sociological Forum 23 (4): Book Review: The Road to Al-Qaeda: The Story of Bin Laden s Right- Hand Man by Montasser Al-Zayyat, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 25 (3): Book Review: Science and the Open Society: The Future of Karl Popper's Philosophy by Mark Amadeus Notturno, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 31 (1): Book Review: Unipolarity and the Middle East by Birthe Hansen, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 30 (2): Page3

4 WORKS IN PROGRESS Kurdish Politics in Transition: Social Movements and Conflict Transformation in Southeast Turkey (Book Manuscript in preparation) Localization of Islam around the Globe: An Introduction to the Special Issue (in preparation for Sociology of Islam s Special Issue) Ideology in Action: Symbolic Localization of the Kurdistan Workers Party in Turkey (Under Review) TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of South Florida Instructor, (Fall 2012-Present) Courses taught: Sociology of Global Islam (Fall 2012; Spring 2013) Introduction to Sociology- Online (Summer 2013) Global Political Sociology (Graduate level) (Fall 2013) Instructor, ( ) Courses taught: Introduction to Sociology (Spring 2008; Fall 2008; Fall 2010) Social Problems (Summer 2010; Fall 2011; Spring 2012) Revolutionary Social Movements around the World (Spring 2011) Race, Class, and Gender (Spring 2012) Trinity College Adjunct Lecturer, ( ) Courses taught: Principles of Sociology (Spring 2010) Social Problems in America (Summer 2010; Spring 2011; Spring 2012; Summer 2012) Page4

5 CONFERENCE PAPERS PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS 2013 Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict: The Case of Kurds in Turkey To be presented at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, October Going Native: Social Movement Competition and Transformation of Global Discourses in Southeast Turkey Presented at Annual Meeting of SSSP, Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York City, August Transnational Class Formation or Global Corporatism? Capital, Labor, and States in the Creation of International Labor Standards, Presented at the Pacific Sociological Association s 84th Annual Meeting, Reno, NV, March (with Michael Mulcahy and Lwendo Moonzwe) Presider, Collective Behavior American Sociological Association Collective Behavior & Social Movements Roundtables, 106 th ASA Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, August Enemies of the Deep State: Narrative Contests in Kurdish Mobilization and Social Movement Différance Presented at the ASA s Collective Behavior & Social Movements Section Workshop, Making Connections: Movement and Research in a Global Context, Las Vegas, NV, August Enemies of the Deep State: Narrative Contests and Transformation of the Kurdish Nationalism Presented at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, San Diego, CA, November Claiming Authentic Islam: Identity Contests and Social Movement Rivalry Presented at the Young Scholars in Social Movements Conference, hosted by the Center for the Study of Social Movements, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, April Kurdish Ethnic and Islamic Mobilizations in Turkey: A Study of Rival Movements Presented at the 80 th annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Cambridge, MA, March Official Kurdish TV Station in Turkey: Emerging New Identities? Presented at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Boston, MA, November Cohesion and Conflict among State, Capital and Labor in the Formation of the World Labor Regime Presented at the 104 th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, August (with Michael Mulcahy and Lwendo Moonzwe) Page5

6 2009 The Politics of the Headscarf: The Kavakci Affair and Islamic Mobilizations in Turkey Presented at the 50 th annual convention of the International Studies Association, New York City, NY, February From Gandhi to Gülen: The Habitus of Non-aggressive Action Presented at the International Conference, Islam in the Age of Global Challenges: Alternative Perspectives of the Gülen Movement, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., November (with Bandana Purkayastha) 2008 The Politics of the Headscarf as Social Drama: The Kavakci Affair and Islamic Mobilizations in the Post-February 28 th Turkey Presented at the 103 rd annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Boston, MA, August Performing Moral Opposition: Musings on the Strategy and Identity in the Gülen Movement Presented at the International Conference, Muslim World in Transition: Contributions of the Gülen Movement, School of Oriental and African Studies & London School of Economics, London, October Framing Processes and Identity Symbols: Headscarf Mobilization and Diversification Islamic Movements in Turkey, Presented at the 102 nd annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City, August National Social Forces in the Formation of Global Capitalism? Patterns of Cohesion and Conflict in a Global Governance Institution, Presented at the 77 th annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, PA, March (with Michael Mulcahy and Lwendo Moonzwe) 2006 Headscarf in a Secular Society: American Muslim Women s Voices. Presented at the 35 th annual conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists: Muslim Identities: Shifting Boundaries and Dialogues, Hartford, CT, October (with Gulsum Gurbuz-Kucuksari) 2006 The Political Economy of Union Organizational Effort and Success in the US., Presented at the 101 st annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montrèal, Quebec, Canada, August (with Andrew Fullerton and Michael Wallace) 2005 A Tale of Two Identities: Beyond the Clashes of Civilizations, Presented in The International Conference on Islam at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, April Bringing in Legitimacy and Discourse: Identity (Re)production in Turkish Modernization, Presented in The 2004 Middle East & Central Asia Politics, Economics, and Society Conference: Transitions and Inequality in the 21st Century, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, September Page6

7 2003 Constructing a Conversational Encounter in a Globalized World: IR Theory as a Modernity Project, Presented in Displacing Canons, Dislocating Cultures Symposium at Bilkent University, Ankara, February The Changing Face of Security in a Globalized World and the Third Debate in International Relations, Presented in International Relations Congress at Aegean University, Izmir, May 1-3. (in Turkish) INVITED TALKS 2013 How Frames Matter in Ethnic Conflicts: Approaching Socio-Cultural Reforms St John s University, New York City, NY, March Identity Contests and Social Movement Rivalry: The Case of Kurdish Politics in Southeast Turkey., Trinity College, CT, April Bringing Strategy-Identity Liaison Back in: Headscarf Protest Mobilization and Diversification of Islamic Movements in Turkey. Center for Comparative Research, Yale University, February 21. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Associate Editor & Reviews Editor Sociology of Islam (2013- present) Editor Sociology of Islam s Special Issue: Localization of Islam around the Globe (Fall 2014) Contributing Editor Mobilizing Ideas (Interdisciplinary Social Movements Blog hosted by Center for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame) (2011- present) Committee member Founder s Award for Service & Scholarship, ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities ( ) Co-Organizer Collective Behavior & Social Movements Roundtables, the 106 th annual meeting American Sociological Association, Editorial Board Member Societies Without Borders: Human Rights and Social Sciences (2010- present) CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East (2010-present) Page7

8 Manuscript Referee American Journal of Sociology Journal of Contemporary Ethnography Ethnic and Racial Studies Politics and Religion Middle East Critique Gender and Society Mobilization Societies Without Borders Sage Wiley-Blackwell PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP American Sociological Association Society for the Study of Social Problems Middle East Studies Association Middle East Sociology Working Group REFERENCES Mary Bernstein Storrs, CT Phone: (860) Nancy A. Naples Storrs, CT Phone: (860) Bandana Purkayastha Storrs, CT Phone: (860) Charles Kurzman University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC Phone: (919) Robert D. Benford University of South Florida Tampa, FL Phone: (813) Theresa Morris Trinity College Hartford, CT Phone: (860) Page8