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Nergis Canefe
Nergis Canefe (1967) is a Middle Eastern-Canadian scholar. She completed her undergraduate education at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.

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. She received her PhD at Social and Political Thought, York University, Canada as a student of Howard Adelman. Canefe also holds a SJD/PhD in Law (Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada) granted in 2018.

She was the inaugural Past and Present fellow at Oxford University and worked at University of London Historical Studies (1998-2002). 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. Canefe worked as a faculty member at Istanbul Bilgi University in 2002-2003 academic year and lectured at the Departments of Sociology and Cultural Studies. She joined York University, Canada, Departments of Political Science and Public Administration in 2003. She also worked as a guest lecturer in Turkey, Lebanon, China and Cyprus since 2005. Canefe became an Associate professor in the fields of political philosophy and the history of political thought simultaneously in Turkey and in Canada. She is currently a full professor at York University, Canada.

Canefe's 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. Her work has been published in English, Turkish, Portugese and German.

Book

 * Crimes Against Humanity: Limits of Universal Jurisdiction in the Global South (University of Wales, International Law Series, 2021)
 * Transitional Justice and Forced Migration: Perspectives from the Global South (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
 * The Syrian Exodus in Context: Precarity, Mobility and Rights (published with Bilgi University, Human Rights Law Series, Istanbul, Turkey, 2018)
 * The Jewish Diaspora as a Paradigm: Politics, Religion and Belonging (Libra Press—Jewish Studies Series, 2014)
 * Milliyetcilik, Kimlik ve Aidiyet [Nationalism, Identity and Belonging (Istanbul: Bilgi University, 2006)]
 * Turkey and European Integration: Accession Prospects and Issues (London and New York: Routledge, 2004)

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 since 2016. She also created book covers for several academic volumes.