Dr. Gundogan is an urban sociologist by training and holds BA and MA degrees in political science. He researches how people produce and organize space and time. This interest takes him to cities in the Global South, especially those on the edges, in my case, the broader Istanbul area. He has published articles and book chapters on peripheral urbanization in the broader Istanbul region, anti-urban renewal mobilization, and the Kurdish political movement in Turkey. He is also working on a book, provisionally titled Peripheral Urbanization and Urban Politics in the Istanbul City-Region. This work seeks to develop a holistic understanding of how the relentless growth of Istanbul – now classified as a third-tier global city – has formed and transformed its surroundings and how the makers of peripheral cities – migrant laborers – have negotiated living and working conditions in relation to the outlying status of their cities. His methodology combines urban ethnography, archival research in official archives and local and national periodicals, and governance and policy analysis. Before FSU, Dr. Gundogan taught at both large research universities and selective private liberal arts colleges in diverse settings in both the U.S. and Turkey, where he has worked with students from many different backgrounds. He held assistant professorships at the University of Michigan-Flint (2013-2014) and Mardin Artuklu University (2014-2016) in Turkey. During the 2017-2018 academic year, he has taught courses on sociological theory and urban sociology at FSU's Department of Sociology as a visiting assistant professor. In addition to teaching and research, Dr. Gundogan is also a translator. He has co-translated five academic books from English to Turkish and dreams of one day translating a science fiction or fantasy novel. Outside the HSF, he is a sourdough baker and self-taught drawer (still learning crosshatching technique with an ink pen while being my sternest critic).