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Onursal Erol
University of Florida
Occupation
Lecturer
ABOUT
Onursal Erol is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California, Department of Middle East Studies. His research is at the intersection of urban-historical geography, gender studies, and Middle Eastern studies.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Cultural Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Human Rights
Middle East/Near East Studies
Ottoman Studies
Queer/LGBT Studies
Theory
Turkish Studies
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Europe
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Specialties
Politics And Resistance In Urban Space
Gender And The Built Environment
Democracy And Human Rights
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (fluent)
French (advanced)
Ottoman (intermediate)
Portuguese (intermediate)
Arabic (elementary)
Spanish (elementary)
German (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2020 | Political Science | University of Chicago
MSci | 2012 | Political Science | Lund University
BA | 2010 | Political Science and International Relations | Bogazici University
Abstracts
In-Transit: Women's Publics and Urban Transportation in Ottoman Istanbul World-As-Exhibitionism: Ottoman Claims to Technological Modernity in Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs Efendilik: Civility, Urbanity, and Homohistoricism in Contentious Istanbul