Meyda Yeğenoğlu has received her Ph.D. from the Sociology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1993. She has held visiting appointments at Oberlin College, Rutgers University, New York University, University of Vienna and Oxford University. Currently she is a professor of sociology in the department of sociology at Middle East Technical University, Ankara. She specializes in Orientalism, globalization, postcolonial theory, cultural studies, and migrancy. She is the author of Colonial Fantasies; Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism (Cambridge University Press,1998). She has numerous essays published in various journals and edited volumes such as Feminist Postcolonial Theory, Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse, Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Postmodern Culture, Race and Ethnic Relations, Inscriptions, Toplum ve Bilim, Defter, and Doğu-Batı. Her mosts recent articles “Liberal Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Hospitality in the Age of Globalization,” published in Postmodern Culture, ‘Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in a Globalized World,” published in Ethnic and Race Relations and “The Return of the Religious: Revisiting Europe and Its Others,” published in Culture and Religion are part of her forthcoming book on Hospitality, Globalization and Migrancy.