ABOUT
Jamie Pelling is an historian of gender, sexuality, and the state in the Middle East. Her research investigates public feeling and shared affects in history, exploring how collective emotional experience becomes entwined with large-scale historical processes. In particular, she is interested in feeling about modernity, the state, and changing social norms in the early-twentieth century Middle East. She received a PhD from Princeton University for her thesis, “Feeling Like a State: Anxiety and Optimism in the late-Ottoman Empire'', and she is now working on her book project "Affects of Modernity in the Middle East". She has conducted archival research in London, Istanbul, and Ankara and now teaches at Kean University. In her free time, she tries to balance enriching hobbies like dressmaking and reading poetry with an all consuming obsession with chess.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Comparative
Cultural Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Identity/Representation
Nationalism
Ottoman Studies
Political Economy
Queer/LGBT Studies
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arabian Peninsula
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
All Middle East
Specialties
Affect Theory In World History
Public Feeling In The Modern Middle East
Gender, Sexuality, And The State In The Middle East
Education
PhD
| 2023
| Near Eastern Studies
| Princeton University
MA
| 2018
| Near Eastern Studies
| Princeton University
MA
| 2015
| Social Science
| University of Chicago
BA
| 2011
| History
| University of London
Abstracts
National Defense, Religious Duty, and the Ottoman Navy: A Glimpse into Ottoman Society
Policing Morality, Pursuing Modernity: Sex and the City in the late-Ottoman Empire
Sex and the City: Sexual Fantasy in 1920s Istanbul
