Dr. Pamela Dorn Sezgin is professor of anthropology and history (tenured) at the University of North Georgia, a newly consolidated university created from the former Gainesville State College and North Georgia State College and University in January 2013. Dr. Sezgin completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Indiana University – Bloomington, where she minored in Turkish Studies, Jewish Studies, and Folklore. She later pursued post-doctoral studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta in World History. Dr. Sezgin did anthropological fieldwork in Istanbul, Turkey, and in Israel on the culture and music of Sephardic Jewry. She currently works in the area of late Ottoman history. She published “Jewish Women in the Ottoman Empire” in Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry (New York University Press, 2005), and an article on Jewish life and music in the Ottoman Empire in Avigdor Levy’s Jews of the Ottoman Empire (Darwin Press, 1994). She is the author of 10 entries in Brill’s Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. The University of Utah Press recently published her article on British/Ottoman diplomacy and press opinion in War and Nationalism: the Balkan Wars 1912-1913 and Their Sociopolitical Implications, edited by M. Hakan Yavuz and Isa Blumi (2013). Dr. Sezgin is active in Turkish Studies and has participated in yearly conferences sponsored by the University of Utah’s Turkish Studies Project, most recently in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia (June 2013) and in Sarajevo, Bosnia (May 2012). She also regularly participates in the Mediterranean Studies Association’s annual meeting, speaking in Pula, Croatia, on the Greek-Turkish population exchanges (2012) and in Corfu, on Pan-Mediterranean Commercial and Cultural Networks (2011), and at the American Historical Association’s meeting (January 2013, New Orleans) where she presented a paper on the late Ottoman intellectual, Riza Tevfik, and his ideas about race and nation at the 1911 Universal Races Congress in London.

History

Ottoman Studies

19th-21st Centuries

Balkan Studies

Diaspora/Refugee Studies

Ethnomusicology

Ethnic Groups

Identity/Representation

Mediterranean Studies

Modernization

Nationalism

Minorities

Turkish Studies

Judaic Studies

Comparative

Mysticism/Sufi Studies

Transnationalism

Urban Studies

Sephardic Studies

Non-Muslims In The Late Ottoman Empire

Non-Muslims In Ottoman Empire

French (advanced)

English (native)

Greek (elementary)

Italian (intermediate)

Hebrew (intermediate)

Ladino (native)

Portuguese (elementary)

Turkish (fluent)

Spanish (advanced)

Ottoman (intermediate)