Nergis Canefe is a Middle Eastern-Canadian scholar. Date of Birth 1967 She completed her undergraduate education at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. (please provide a live link to the institution and the country)

She completed her master's degree in Ottoman History at the same university and also received her MA in Historical Sociology from Binghamton University, New York, USA at the Braudel Center as a student of Immanuel Wallerstein and Giovanni Arrighi. (please provide live in-text links to all the names, institutions and persons)

She received her PhD at Social and Political Thought, York University, Canada as a student of Howard Adelman (same here, please link institutions, programs and persons and reference them). She also holds a SJD/PhD in Law (Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada) granted in 2018. (same here, link Osgoode Hall and also link my dissertation which is found online)

She was the inaugural Past and Present fellow at Oxford University and worked at University of London Historical Studies (1998-2002).

Canefe was the inaugural Past and Present post-doctoral fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. (please link past and present, and, University of Oxford). During the late 1990s, she worked at the Institute of European Studies at London School of Economics, as a researcher and lecturer and worked closely with Anthony Smith's Nationalism Studies group. (link institutions and persons) She worked as a faculty member at Istanbul Bilgi University (2002-2003) and lectured at the Departments of Sociology and acted as part of the inaugural faculty cohort at the Cultural Studies program. (please link programs and institutions) She joined York University, Canada, Departments of Political Science and School of Public Administration in 2003 (please link institution and both programs).

Canefe worked as a guest lecturer in Turkey, Lebanon, China and Cyprus since 2005 (link countries).

She became an Associate professor in the fields of political philosophy and the history of political thought simultaneously in Turkey and in Canada in 2005. She is currently a full professor at York University, Canada (please link to york and also to my own website).

Her fields of expertise are forced migration studies, memory, trauma and belonging, political and legal aspects of minority rights, normative foundations and the legal applications of crimes against humanity in international law (please link the fields as live in text reference).

She has held senior fellowships at the Vienna Institute of Human Sciences, and Budapest Open Society Archives. (please provide links and references to the institutions as well as my name listed in their sites.

Her work has been published in English, Turkish, Portugese and German. Her books include : please add the titles and the books with links here:

Personal Life Canefe lived in the diaspora since 1988, though she regularly works and teaches in the Middle East. She is a mother of two sons and is an established visual artist of murals. She has held several exhibitions and painted murals in public venues since 2016. She also created book covers for several academic volumes.