Tolga Tezcan PhD

Tolga Tezcan is an Associate Professor of Sociology at CSUMB. He earned his PhD in Sociology in 2019 at the University of Florida. He was previously the Director of the Social Science Research Department at the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK TUSSIDE) from 2009 to 2014. His research and teaching are primarily concerned with various migratory events and flows in which migrants and their descendants rearrange their lives and redefine their social relationships, along with methodological inquiries into migration outcomes. His specific research interests include return, circular and marriage migration, intergenerational family and group conflict, and religiosity and identity. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Population, Space and Place, Sociological Forum, Geoforum, Ageing & Society, the Journal of Aging Studies, and other peer-reviewed journals.