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Michael Ferguson
Concordia University
Occupation
Lecturer
Contact
Department of Sociology
The New School for Social Research 6 East 16th Street, 9th floo
New York NY 10003
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Colonialism
Minorities
Ottoman Studies
Turkish Studies
World History
Kurdish Studies
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Ethnography
Geographic Areas of Interest
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Anatolia
Mediterranean Countries
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Specialties
Islamic Stds
Ottoman Emp
African Studies
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
French (fluent)
Greek (elementary)
Turkish (fluent)
Kurmanji (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2014 | History | McGill University
MA | 2006 | Institute of Islamic Studies | McGill University
BA | 2004 | Hist | Carleton U, Ottawa, Canada
Abstracts
"Slave Religions" in Comparative Perspective: The Zar / Bori in Ottoman Lands and Candomblé in Brazil The Emergence of an ‘Afro-Turk’ Identity since 2005 State versus private care of emancipated African children in late Ottoman Izmir African Slavery in the Ottoman Empire and the Violence of the Archive Registration of emancipated Africans in the late Ottoman Empire (1885-1902) Towards a history of African foodways in late Ottoman Izmir