Sumercan Bozkurt–Gungen is a visiting faculty member in the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Middle East Technical University. Before joining SFU, she was a visiting assistant professor at York University, where she taught courses on global poverty and inequality, labour and globalization, business and society, political power and political economy. Her researchbroadly focuses on exploring and identifying the interlinkages between development strategies pursued in the Global South in the early twenty-first century and transformations in the world of work and employment relations. Her academic interest extends to social movements, political regime transformations and politics of social reproduction. Dr. Bozkurt-Gungen has articles published in academic journals such as South European Society and Politics and Journal of International Relations & Development.
