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Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Ashoka University
Ph.D. Duke UniversityCan is a sociocultural anthropologist with research and teaching interests in the anthropology of globalization, economic-political-legal anthropology, democracy, nationalism, sovereignty, cities, public culture, and masculinity.
His book manuscript, Global Sport, Competing Territories: How FIFA Men’s Soccer Remakes Sovereignty, explores how the global culture of men’s soccer can be analyzed to explore paradoxes of globalization as the sport integrates cities, regions, nation-states, team organizations, athletes, commercial intermediaries, and fan communities from around the world in one integrated ritual governed by unified rules of athletic competition and a nested structure of local, national, and transnational laws.
Before joining Ashoka, Can was a Postdoctoral Associate at Boston University’s Kilachand Honors College (2021-2024) and also taught as a visiting lecturer at various universities in Istanbul. He received his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University in 2020.
