Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Zavier Wingham is a doctoral student in the joint History and MEIS program, with interests in Iran, Turkey, and the Ottoman Empire. Previously, his work has focused on the intersections of archives, oral history, and AfroTurks, or Turks of African descent. He is currently interested in the formations and deformations surrounding race in the Ottoman context, with desires to engage with the wider geographic contexts of Africa.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Minorities
Turkish Studies
Iranian Studies
African Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Ottoman Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Turkey
All Middle East
Specialties
Histories Of Slavery In Modern MENA
African Diaspora In 19th C Ottoman Empire
Languages
Turkish (advanced)
Persian (advanced)
Ottoman (advanced)
English (native)
German (intermediate)
Education
MA
| 2017
| Near Eastern Studies
| New York Unviersity
BA
| 2014
| Middle Eastern Studies
| University of Texas At Austin
Abstracts
Dana Bayrami Festival: Forging Solidarity through Afro-Turkish Identity in Modern Turkey
The Ambivalent Legacy of Manumission: Ottoman Guesthouses for Africans in the 1880s
