Dr. Gündoğan is an urban sociologist and political scientist with his Ph.D from Binghamton University. Since 2018 he has served as Core Teaching Faculty in the University Honors Program and takes pride in developing interdisciplinary Honors Signature Courses. These courses align with Professor Gündoğan's research exploring utopianism, social and global inequalities, everyday life, global urbanization, and cinematic representations of urban spaces. Dr. Gündoğan is currently compiling his research in a book tentatively titled “The Backwater: Peripheral Urbanization and Urban Politics in Istanbul”.
Outside of teaching and research Dr. Gündoğan is a translator and hopes to one day translate a sci-fi/fantasy novel, as an avid fan of the genre, from English to Turkish. He is also a baker and a self-taught sketcher developing the skill of crosshatching with an ink pen.
Honors Signature Courses
- IDH3117: Social (In)equalities: Social Construction of Difference and Inequalities
- IDH3118: Utopias/Dystopias: An Homage to 'Social Dreaming'
- IDH3311: City in Cinema: Visual Stories of/through Urban Space
- IDH3401: Everyday Life: Time/Space/Power
- IDH3407: Global Urbanization: Urban Diversity and Culture in the Age of Globalization
- IDH3430: Global Inequalities: The Local and the Global in the Modern World-System