Department of History
Cornell University
450 McGraw Hall
Ithaca
NY
14853
United States
ABOUT
Associate professor of history and the director of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative (OTSI) at Cornell University. Research interests include Ottoman social, cultural and diplomatic history at the turn of the century with a focus on Ottoman forms of imperialism and global inter-imperial competition in Africa and the Middle East.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Ottoman Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
African Studies
World History
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Mediterranean Studies
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Libya
Turkey
All Middle East
Sahara
Ottoman Empire
Arabian Peninsula
Specialties
Ottoman Imperialism
Transimperial Relations
Red Sea Basin, Horn Of Africa, Central Africa.
Languages
Arabic (native)
Turkish (advanced)
Osmanli (advanced)
English (native)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2011
| History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies
| New York University
