Christopher Houston is Discipline Chair of Anthropology at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has carried out fieldwork and research in Turkey on Islamic social movements, nationalism, urban processes in Istanbul, Turkish political history, and on the Kurdish issue. His most recent book is titled Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup d’état, and Memory in Turkey (California University Press, 2020). A new book, Theocracy, Secularism, and Islam in Turkey: Anthropocratic Republic is in press with Palgrave Macmillan. He is author of Islam, Kurds and the Turkish Nation State (2002, Berg), and Kurdistan: Crafting of National Selves (2008, Indiana University Press); and co-editor of Phenomenology in Anthropology: A Sense of Perspective (2015, Indiana University Press). He was President of the Australian Anthropological Society in 2014/2015.

• Phenomenology for Social Sciences: Powerpoint slides
• Seamon, David. “Whither phenomenology.” Thirty years of environmental and architectural phenomenology. Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology 30, no. 2 (2019): 46-48.