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Murat C. Yildiz
Skidmore College
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Skidmore College
Department of History
Saratoga Springs NY 12866
United States
ABOUT
Murat C. Yildiz is Assistant Professor of History at Skidmore College. He specializes in the cultural and social history of the modern Middle East. His research examines the intersections of sports, imperial and communal identities, the body, gender, and urban history in the late Ottoman Empire. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Ottoman Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Gender/Women's Studies
Nationalism
Ethnic Groups
Turkish Studies
Urban Studies
Pop Culture
Geographic Areas of Interest
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
All Middle East
Specialties
Sports And Physical Culture
The Body
Ottoman Studies
Education
PhD | 2015 | History | UCLA
MA | 2009 | History | UCLA
BA | 2005 | History | UCSD
Abstracts
Re-reading Hamidian Morality as a Subject of Study and as a Text: Identifying Multiple Sources of Authority Envisioning, Sculpting, and Exhibiting the (Strong, Beautiful, and Healthy) Male Body in Late Ottoman Istanbul Creating New and Challenging Old Conceptions of Bourgeois Masculinity: the Male Body in Late Ottoman Istanbul Performing the Nation: Sports and Modernity in the Late Ottoman Empire “My Dear Brother”: Bonds of Friendship in Ottoman Sports Clubs Building Blocks of the Nation(s): Male Bodies in Early-Twentieth-Century Istanbul A Global Brotherhood in a “City Without Any Civic Consciousness”: The YMCA During the Armistice Sports and Communal Boundaries in Late Ottoman Istanbul