Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Deren Ertas is a PhD Candidate in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Deren was born in Istanbul and raised in Long Island, NY after 2005. Prior to starting her PhD, she worked as a history teacher at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, NY (2016-18). She received her MA from the New School for Social Research (2019) and her BA from Wesleyan University (2016). She was a finalist for the QuestBridge National Match program in 2012.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
19th-21st Centuries
Environment
Historiography
Labor History
Political Economy
State Formation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Anatolia
Armenia
Kurdistan
Iraq
Syria
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (native)
French (advanced)
Arabic (intermediate)
Ottoman (advanced)
Kurdish (intermediate)
German (intermediate)
Armenian (elementary)
Education
MA
| 2022
| History
| Harvard University
MA
| 2019
| Historical Studies
| The New School
BA
| 2016
| College of Social Studies
| Wesleyan University
Abstracts
Imperial Geologies: The Political Ecology of Mining in Eastern Asia Minor, 1775-1875
The Ergani Copper Road: The Infrastructures of Extractivism in Early Republican Turkey (1922-1938)
