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Elcin Arabaci
Georgetown University
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Primary Phone: (202) 746-0221
Besevler Mah. Basari Sok.
No: 19/ 7 Nilufer,
Bursa 16110
Turkey
ABOUT
Ph.D candidate, Georgetown University, History. Currently I am writing a dissertation entitled “Cocoons of Modernity: The Metamorphoses of Civil Society and Violence in Late Ottoman Bursa (1860-1914)”. My research interests include urban social movements, society-state relationships and civil society in the Middle East.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Ottoman Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Islamic Thought
Historiography
Turkish Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Democratization
Turkish
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Specialties
The Development Of The Ottoman Middle Class, Civic
Urban History In The Middle East
Craft Guilds And Ottoman Guild Organization
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (fluent)
German (intermediate)
Ottoman (advanced)
French (elementary)
Education
MA | 2006 | History | Sabanci University
MA | 2003 | Ataturk Institute and Modern Turkish History | Bogazici University
BA | 1998 | International Relations | Middle East Technical University
Abstracts
Burning Crises of the Late Ottoman Urban Transformation: A Case of Silk Factory Fire in Bursa (1862) SYMPTOMS OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN LATE OTTOMAN BURSA A Price to Pay For Modernization? Plundering of Evkaf in 19th Century Bursa DISPOSSESSION AT THE CROSSROADS OF THE NOMADS, LOCAL BURSAN VILLAGERS AND BALKAN-CAUCASIAN IMMIGRANTS