Yusuf Sarfati
Research Assistant
sarfati.1@osu.edu
Yusuf is a research assistant for the Kirwan Institute, where he works on a project on alliance building between African American communities and Latino immigrant communities. He is also a Ph.D. candidate at the department of political science at The Ohio State University. His dissertation entitled “The State, Co-optation Strategies, and the Secular-Religious Divide: Turkey, Israel and Indonesia Compared" focuses on the strengthening of non-moderate religio-political movements in three different contexts in the 1990s. Yusuf received his Master’s degree in political science from The Ohio State University in 2004. In 2001, he received his Bachelor’s degree in political science and international relations from Bogazici University, Turkey.
Research interests: Politics of identity; Democratic theory; Comparative politics of the Middle East (with a special focus on Turkey and Israel)
