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Bilal Kotil
Marmara University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
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ABOUT
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Marmara University in Istanbul. I work on the intersections of morality, human rights, international legal history, and the Muslim World. I taught courses at the City College of New York and Istanbul Sehir University. I have a Ph.D. in Politics and Historical Studies from the New School for Social Research, an MA in Historical Studies at the same institution, and a BA in Sociology from Binghamton University.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Turkish Studies
Ottoman Studies
Theory
19th-21st Centuries
Human Rights
Islamic Thought
Transnationalism
World History
Colonialism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Ottoman Empire
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Mediterranean Countries
Specialties
Domestic Slavery In Ottoman Middle East (19th C)
Humanitarianism
International Law
Languages
Turkish (native)
Arabic (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2018 | Politics and Historical Studies | New School for Social Research
MA | 2012 | Historical Studies | New School for Social Research
BA | 2010 | Sociology | Binghamton University
Abstracts
"Beyond the circle of toleration": Runaway slaves, international law, and politics of intimacy in the late Ottoman Empire “Imaginary grievances and gratuitous accusations”: Debating slavery and narrating facts in the Ottoman archives “Aided Self-Help”: Administrating Economies and Caring for Populations in Cold War Turkey