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Milena Methodieva
University of Toronto
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Email: [email protected]
ABOUT
Milena Methodieva is a scholar of Ottoman, Balkan, and Turkish history, 19-20th c. Her scholarship is concerned with the political, intellectual, and social transformations in the late Ottoman empire, its successors in the Balkans, and modern Turkey. She is interested in exploring history from the perspective of marginalized groups and showing their role in the historical process. Her work often looks at events in transnational context. Milena Methodieva is the author of Between Empire and Nation: Muslim Reform in the Balkans (Stanford University Press, 2021). The book tells the story of the transformation of the Muslim community in modern Bulgaria during a period of imperial dissolution, conflicting national and imperial enterprises, and the emergence of new national and ethnic identities. It explores how these former Ottoman subjects, now under Bulgarian rule, navigated between empire and nation-state, and sought to claim a place in the larger modern world. Based on a wide array of primary sources and drawing on Ottoman and Eastern European historiographies, this work approaches the question of Balkan Muslims' engagement with modernity through a transnational lens, arguing that the experience of this Muslim minority provides new insight into the nature of nationalism, citizenship, and state formation.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Balkan Studies
Minorities
Nationalism
Ottoman Studies
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Balkans
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Specialties
Late Ottoman Emp
Minorities
Balkan History
Languages
Bulgarian (native)
French (advanced)
Greek (intermediate)
Russian (advanced)
Turkish (fluent)
Ottoman (fluent)
Education
PhD | 2010 | Near Eastern Studies | Princeton University
MA | 2001 | Hist | Bilkent U
Abstracts
Political Mobilization and Reform Among the Muslims in Bulgaria, 1878-1908 Calamity of Calamities: Narratives of Displacement and the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877-78 Charity, Morality, and Patriotism: Women Migrants in the Late Ottoman Empire