Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
City College
160 Convent Avenue
NAC 5/144
New York
NY
10031
United States
ABOUT
Lâle Can is an associate professor of history at The City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center. She specializes in late Ottoman history, focusing on migration and questions of imperial belonging. She is the author of Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire (Stanford University Press, 2020) and a co-editor of The Subjects of Ottoman International Law (Indiana University Press, 2020). She is currently working on a history of exile in the Ottoman Empire, and has held fellowships from the Koç Center for Anatolian Civilizations, NEH, SSRC, NYU Remarque Institute, Fulbright-Hays, ARIT, and ITS.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Central Asian Studies
Globalization
Middle East/Near East Studies
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Ottoman Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Ottoman Empire
Central Asia
Islamic World
Languages
Ottoman (advanced)
Turkish (fluent)
Uzbek (intermediate)
Persian (intermediate)
Russian (intermediate)
Abstracts
Spiritual Subjects, Material Demands: Central Asian Petitioners in the Late Ottoman Empire
Not Quite Foreign, Not Quite Ottoman: Central Asian Muslims and the Politics of Citizenship and Islamic Legitimacy, 1865-1914
On Creating an Ottoman Siberia: Penal Reform and the Connected Histories of Exile, Hard Labor, and Colonialism in the Late Ottoman Empire
