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Melis Hafez
Virginia Commonwealth University
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Email:
[email protected]
VCU Dept of History
813 S Cathedral Pl
Richmond VA 23220
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Colonialism
Historiography
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
Ottoman Studies
State Formation
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Ottoman (advanced)
Persian (advanced)
Turkish (native)
Education
PhD | 2012 | History | UCLA
MA | 2006 | Hist | UCLA
BA | 2003 | Psych | UCLA
Abstracts
The Lazy, the Idle, and the Industrious: Discourse of Work and Productivity in Late Ottoman Society
Time, Machine and the Body: Productivity and Nation-Formation in the Fin de Si?cle Ottoman Society
The Diseased Body and Laziness as a Social Disease in Late Ottoman Society
Moralization to Militarization?: Reading the Balkan Wars through the Body of the Political Subject
Character-building, Nation-building: The Lazy and the Dandy of late Ottoman Novels
Morality in the Age of Nation-States: Can We Talk about Islamic Work Ethics in the Ottoman Long Nineteenth Century?
“Hamidian Caliphatism in the Wilsonian Moment: An Indian Intellectual’s Defense of the Ottoman Empire, 1919”
Criminalization of Laziness: Punishment, Reward, and Negotiation in the Ottoman Bureaus
How to Advance Your Nation and Your Bureaucratic Career Simultaneously: A Non-Moral Approach to the Morality Scripts in the Ottoman Empire 1880-1914