Özsoy graduated with a bachelor's degree in sociology from Boğaziçi University in 2002[1] and earned a master's degree in 2004 and a Ph.D in Political Anthropology 2010, both from the University of Texas in Austin.[2][1] From 2011 onwards he lectured at the University of Michigan. He is experienced in pedagogics and in 2012 he was chosen as a lecturer in the Thompson Center for learning and teaching of the University of Michigan.[3]