Soguk graduated from Gazi University in Turkey in 1985. After a 1990 master's degree from Ohio University, he went to Arizona State University for doctoral study. He completed his Ph.D. there in 1995 with the dissertation Refugee Matters: Refugee Regimentations As Practices of Statecraft,[2] supervised by Richard K. Ashley.[3]
Books
Soguk's books include:
States and Strangers: Refugees and Displacements of Statecraft (University of Minnesota Press, 1999)[4]
Globalization and Islamism: Beyond Fundamentalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011)[5]
Arab Revolutions and World Transformations (edited with Anna M. Agathangelou, Routledge, 2013)[6]
The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Theory, Modern Power, World Politics: Critical Investigations (edited with Scott G. Nelson, Routledge, 2016)
Global Insurrectional Politics (edited, Routledge, 2018)[7]
Personal life
In 1992, Soguk married Clare Hanusz (1968–2023), an immigration lawyer whom he met when they were both students at Ohio University. They had two children.[8]