Spyros A. Sofos is a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Centre of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He previously taught at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Lund University, the Department of Politics of Kingston University, the School of Social and Historical Studies of the University of Portsmouth, and the department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Kent. His research areas lie at the intersection of social identity and the production of insecurity and conflict, with emphasis on social movements, populism, nationalism, urban space and politics, and political polarization and conflict. He is lead editor of #RethinkingPopulism. His publications include Turkish Politics and ‘The People’: Mass Mobilisation and Populism (Edinburgh University Press, 2022); Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey (Columbia University Press, 2008); and Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe (Routledge, 1997).
