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Cevat Dargin
Princeton University
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Kurdish Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Historiography
Ethnography
World History
State Formation
Turkish Studies
Minorities
Ottoman Studies
Environment
Middle East/Near East Studies
Armenian Studies
Nationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Kurdistan
Turkey
Iran
Iraq
Syria
Armenia
All Middle East
Caucasus
Ottoman Empire
Islamic World
Specialties
Kurdish Studies
Colonialism
Late Ottoman Empire
Languages
Kurdish (native)
Turkish (native)
English (fluent)
Persian (advanced)
Arabic (elementary)
Russian (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2021 | Near Eastern Studies | Princeton University
MA (Dubl.) | 2014 | Near Eastern Studies | NYU
MA (Dubl.) | 2012 | Political Science | Brooklyn College
BA | 2007 | Political Science and International Relations | Bogazici University
Abstracts
Colonizing Dersim across Empire and Nation–State (1877–1938) “You are Real and Pure Turks!”: Racialization and Colonial Violence in the Kurdish Province of Dersim