Ertuğ Tombuş
Ph.D. in Political Science and Sociology
Co-director of the Center for Comparative Research on Democracy and Research Associate at the Institute for Social Sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin
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Ertuğ Tombuş is co-director of the Center for Comparative Research on Democracy and a research associate at the Institute for Social Sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin. From 2017 to 2020, he was the academic coordinator of the Blickwechsel: Contemporary Turkey Studies program at HU Berlin. Prior to joining Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, he taught at Columbia University, the New School for Liberal Arts, Eugene Lang College, Western Connecticut State University, and the State University of New York. Since 2009, he has been the executive editor of Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory. He has been a visiting scholar at Northwestern University and Yale University. He holds two Ph.D. degrees, in Political Science and Sociology, as well as a M.Sc and a B.Sc. in Political Science and an M.Phil. in Sociology. His central teaching and research areas are democratic theory, politics and law, constitutional theory, comparative constitutionalism, populism, secularism and its critics, sociology of law, political sociology, contemporary social theory, and Turkish politics.