Ertuğ Tombuş holds a PhD in political science from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He is a Research Fellow at the Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and the academic coordinator of Blickwechsel: Contemporary Turkey Studies Program. Before joining Humboldt, he taught at Columbia University, The New School for Liberal Arts, Eugene Lang College, Western Connecticut State University, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, and Izmir University of Economics. He is the managing editor of Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory. He was a visiting research fellow at Northwestern University and Yale University and he earned MPhil in Sociology from the New School for Social Research, MSc and BSc in Political Science from Middle East Technical University. He is the managing editor of Constellation: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory. http://www.constellationsjournal.org/. His primary research and teaching areas are political theory, theories of constitution-making, comparative constitutionalism, populism, secularism, political sociology and Turkish politics.