Religious Fundamentalism in an Age of Conflict

Dr David Makofsky is an Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Indiana University Northwest and a Research Anthropologist at the Ethnic Minorities Studies Center of the Minorities University of China Beijing, China. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley, and was active in social movements in the 1960s and ‘70s. He wrote a dissertation in Istanbul, taught at the State University of New York, Binghamton and San Francisco State, and worked as an Applied Statistician for the City of San Francisco.

Bayram Ünal is a Professor at Nigde University, Turkey, and a Research Affiliate of the Ferdinand Braudel Center at Binghamton University. He completed his PhD at the Sociology Department of the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2008, and his MA at Old Dominion University, USA. His main research interests lie in the area of historical sociology, focusing on labor, migration, inequality and gender.