Previously, he held the Jalal Talabani Endowed Chair at the University of Central Florida(UCF).
[4] His most recent book is Liminal Minorities: Religion and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies (Cornell University Press, 2024).
Tezcür is also the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics and Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East: Shifting Identities, Borders, and the Experience of Minority Communities.
His best-known works are on the interrelated dynamics of Islamic party politics and democratic governance and on the Kurdish insurgency in Turkey in which he explains why ordinary individuals take risks and join a rebellion.
In particular, uneducated women with lower-class backgrounds join the movement because it provides them with the most viable way out of patriarchal relations.