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Madeleine Elfenbein
Cooper Union
Occupation
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Contact
200 Claremont Ave
Apt. 46
New York NY 10027
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Ottoman Studies
World History
Transnationalism
Islamic Thought
Nationalism
Turkish Studies
Human Rights
Geographic Areas of Interest
Ottoman Empire
Europe
Islamic World
Specialties
Ottoman Intellectual History
International Law
Nineteenth-century Press Culture
Languages
Ottoman (intermediate)
Turkish (advanced)
French (fluent)
English (native)
German (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2017 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | University of Chicago
MA | 2011 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | The University of Chicago
BA | 2004 | Social Studies | Harvard College
Abstracts
“Necessary Relations”: Namik Kemal, Montesquieu, and Natural Law Ottomanism on a European Stage: Ali Suavi and Teodor Kasap in the Pages of the French and British Press Teodor Kasap and the Making of an Ottomanist Public, 1870-1877 Illiberal Ottomanism: Ali Suavi’s Critique of Liberal Internationalism Namik Kemal and Ibn Khaldunism in an Age of Nationalist Historiography