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Heather Ferguson
Claremont McKenna College
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
530 N Laurel Ave
Upland CA 91786
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
Historiography
History Of Architecture
Islamic Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Ottoman Empire
Mediterranean Countries
Specialties
Religio-legal Discourse Of The Ottoman Empire
Comparative Early Modern Empires
Theories Of Archives
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Osmanli (advanced)
Turkish (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2009 | History | University of California, Berkeley
MA | 1999 | Middle Eastern Studies | University of Texas, Austin
Abstracts
Between Ethics and Politics: The Elaboration of a Critical Mode in Ottoman Administrative Genres “Re-Inventing Tradition as a Response to Crisis: Ethical Categories and Administrative Strategies in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Documentary Genres” Masquerades and Forgeries: Misinformation and Imperial Fragility as an ‘Archival’ Crisis