Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
ABOUT
Matthew Ghazarian’s research focuses on environmental history, political economy, and communal conflict in the Middle East. Ghazarian’s current project examines the links between material conditions–including debt, drought, and hunger–and widening communal divides in the late Ottoman Empire.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Armenian Studies
Ottoman Studies
Turkish Studies
Colonialism
Identity/Representation
Kurdish Studies
Cultural Studies
Political Economy
Environment
Geographic Areas of Interest
Anatolia
Caucasus
The Levant
Specialties
Ethnic Conflict
Political Economy
Environmental History
Languages
Armenian (advanced)
Turkish (fluent)
Ottoman (advanced)
Persian (intermediate)
Arabic (elementary)
French (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2021
| Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
| Columbia University
MA
| 2015
| Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
| Columbia University
BA
| 2010
| Government
| Harvard University
Abstracts
To Fly or Starve: Nomads, Arms, and Aid in the Ottoman Famines of 1878-81
Telegraphy, Credit, and Sectarianism in the Ottoman East, 1865-81
Precarities of Plenty: Famine and Sovereign Debt in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1881-1894
Natural Allies and Natural Alibis: Famine, Drought, Discontent in the Ottoman East, 1906-08
