Since the early 1990's, my ethnographic and historical research has focused on the Eastern Mediterranean, and particularly the divided island of Cyprus. My first two books resulted from extensive comparative research on both sides of the Cyprus Green Line, but over the past decade my interest has shifted to the de facto state in the island's north, and to the way that so-called citizens of that state live without recognition. This led me to preliminary research in Abkhazia, the unrecognized breakaway state of Georgia, which I will be writing up in the near future. Currently, I am also the co-principal investigator of a project examining the integration of Syrian refugee youth in Turkey and am in the process of planning a future project on what I call "infrastructural imperialism," or the use of infrastructural investment by states such as Turkey, China, and Russia to annex territory, consolidate power, and engage in "soft power" relations.