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Devi Mays
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
University of Michigan 2111 South Thayer Building, 202 S Thayer St
Ann Arbor MI 48104
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Identity/Representation
Judaic Studies
Minorities
Nationalism
Ottoman Studies
Transnationalism
Turkish Studies
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Balkans
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Specialties
Ottoman Sephardic Hist
Emigration Of Sephardic Jews
Ottoman/Turkish Relations With Latin America
Languages
Arabic (elementary)
Hebrew (intermediate)
Ladino (advanced)
Spanish (advanced)
Turkish (advanced)
French (advanced)
English (native)
Ottoman (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2013 | History | Indiana University
MA | 2009 | History | Indiana University
BA | 2006 | Class, NE & Rel Stds | U of British Columbia
Abstracts
When the ‘Citizenship Question’ becomes the ‘Minority Question,’ or Ottoman Jewish Émigrés between the Ottoman Empire and Turkey The Sephardi Connection: Transnational Sephardic Smuggling Networks between Old and New Worlds