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Melis Hafez
Virginia Commonwealth University
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Email:
[email protected]
VCU Dept of History
813 S Cathedral Pl
Richmond VA 23220
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Colonialism
Nationalism
Ottoman Studies
State Formation
World History
Middle East/Near East Studies
Historiography
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Ottoman (advanced)
Persian (advanced)
Turkish (native)
Education
PhD | 2012 | History | UCLA
MA | 2006 | Hist | UCLA
BA | 2003 | Psych | UCLA
Abstracts
The Lazy, the Idle, and the Industrious: Discourse of Work and Productivity in Late Ottoman Society
Time, Machine and the Body: Productivity and Nation-Formation in the Fin de Si?cle Ottoman Society
The Diseased Body and Laziness as a Social Disease in Late Ottoman Society
Moralization to Militarization?: Reading the Balkan Wars through the Body of the Political Subject
Character-building, Nation-building: The Lazy and the Dandy of late Ottoman Novels
Morality in the Age of Nation-States: Can We Talk about Islamic Work Ethics in the Ottoman Long Nineteenth Century?
“Hamidian Caliphatism in the Wilsonian Moment: An Indian Intellectual’s Defense of the Ottoman Empire, 1919”
Criminalization of Laziness: Punishment, Reward, and Negotiation in the Ottoman Bureaus
How to Advance Your Nation and Your Bureaucratic Career Simultaneously: A Non-Moral Approach to the Morality Scripts in the Ottoman Empire 1880-1914