Rate My Professor Umut Ozguc

Ozguc's research specializations include critical border studies, settler colonialism, poststructuralism, posthumanism, security studies, international relations, political geography, continental philosophy, and history. Her earlier work addressed human security, racism, and managing cultural diversity. Key publications are 'Borders, Detention, and the Disruptive Power of the Noisy-Subject' (International Political Sociology, 2020), 'Rethinking border walls as fluid meshworks' (Security Dialogue, 2021), 'More-Than-Human Borders: A New Research Agenda for Posthuman Conversations in Border Studies' (Geopolitics, 2023), 'The Politics of Temporality and the Ethos of Open Societies: Transfrontier Conservation Areas as Spatio-temporal Chokepoints' (Geopolitics, 2023), and ''Broadening' and 'deepening' collective security in times of health crisis: the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond' (International Relations, 2025). She is the co-founder of the Australian Critical Border Studies Network, received a teaching award from ANU's College of Asia and the Pacific (2018), and the 2022 ANU Freilich Project Early Career Research Grant for mobility injustices and pandemic borders research. She is completing a book on borders in settler-colonial states.