Ph.D candidate, Georgetown University, History.
Currently I am writing a dissertation entitled “Cocoons of Modernity: The Metamorphoses of Civil Society and Violence in Late Ottoman Bursa (1860-1914)”. My research interests include urban social movements, society-state relationships and civil society in the Middle East.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Democratization
Historiography
Islamic Thought
Middle East/Near East Studies
Ottoman Studies
Turkish
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Specialties
The Development Of The Ottoman Middle Class, Civic
Urban History In The Middle East
Craft Guilds And Ottoman Guild Organization
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (fluent)
German (intermediate)
Ottoman (advanced)
French (elementary)
Education
MA
| 2006
| History
| Sabanci University
MA
| 2003
| Ataturk Institute and Modern Turkish History
| Bogazici University
BA
| 1998
| International Relations
| Middle East Technical University
