Barış Büyükokutan

Culture

sociology of intellectuals

sociology of art and literature

field theory

comparative and historical method

secularization

secularism

and secularity

power-states in the 21st century

Weber

Simmel

civic republicanism in sociology

I am a historical sociologist of culture and religion with a specific focus on intellectuals. My most recent work

on the forms of secularization in Turkish literary milieus

was published in New Perspectives on Turkey and the American Journal of Sociology. I am currently on leave as a Fulbright scholar at Harvard University to develop this project into a book. I am also writing a Turkish-language book on civic republicanism and developing journal articles on populism

reputational trajectories of dominated intellectuals

and the links among the freedom of expression

high-end technological development

and security. My past work

on politicization dynamics among U.S. poets

was published in Political Power and Social Theory and in the American Sociological Review.