Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
Primary Phone: (774) 641-6685
43 Jabotinsky Street
Jerusalem
MA
9104001
Israel
ABOUT
Ümit Kurt earned his PhD in history at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University in 2016. He is Polonsky Fellow in the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem. Dr. Kurt is engaged in his work with examining transfer of Armenian wealth, transformation of space, elite-making process, ordinary perpetrators, collective violence, microhistories, inter-ethnic conflicts, Armenian genocide and early modern Turkish nationalism. He has taught at Clark University, Fresno State University, and Sabanc? University. He was the recipient of prestigious Armenian Studies Scholarship Award from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in 2016-17 in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of The Great, Hopeless Turkish Race: Fundamentals of Turkish Nationalism in the Turkish Homeland, 1911-1916 (2012) and the co-author of The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide (2015) and Antep 1915: Genocide and Perpetrators (2018).
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Armenian Studies
Historiography
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
Ottoman Studies
Political Economy
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Turkey
Specialties
Political Economy Of The "Armenian Question&q
Analysis Of Minds Of The Historical Actors In &quo
Late 19th And Early 20th Ottoman History
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (fluent)
German (elementary)
Armenian (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Ottoman (advanced)
Hebrew (intermediate)
Education
DPhil
| 2016
| HISTORY
| CLARK UNIVERSITY
MA
| 2007
| European Studies
| Sabanci University
BSc
| 2006
| Political Science and Public Administration
| Middle East Techical University
Abstracts
The Breakdown of a Previously Peaceful Coexistence: The Aintab Armenian Massacres of 1895
Theaters of violence in the Ottoman Periphery: Tracing the local roots of Hamidian massacres in Aintab
Life and Death from Yemen to Euphrates: Syrian Governor Cemal Pasha in Armenian Memoirs.
