Paul T. Levin is the founding Director of the Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS). The author of Turkey and the European Union: Christian and Secular Images of Islam (Palgrave) and co-editor of Migration from Turkey to Sweden: Integration, Belonging and Transnational Community (I.B. Tauris), Dr. Levin is a frequent commentator on Turkish affairs in Swedish and international media. He is a founding member of the Consortium for European Symposia of Turkish Studies, Associate Researcher at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs, Research Fellow at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, and member of the German Marshall Fund’s Trilateral Strategy Group. He received his PhD from the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California.