Dr Serkan Yolaçan is an assistant professor of anthropology at Stanford University. In his research, Serkan combines broad space and deep history empirically, and history and anthropology methodologically, to generate geo-historical frames that speak to questions of human mobility, international order, and state expansionism, past and present. His book project, Time Travelers of Baku: Conversion and Revolution in West Asia, weaves the modern experiences of Turkey, Iran, and Russia through the lens of a mobile, diasporic people from the region of Azerbaijan.
He has an active media profile in Southeast Asia through regular contributions to Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post and Singapore-based Channel NewsAsia. He holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from Duke University and an MA in sociology and social anthropology from the Central European University.