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Michael Sims
University of Washington, Seattle
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Kurdish Studies
Ottoman Studies
Minorities
Assyrian Studies
Nationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Turkey
Anatolia
Iraq
Ottoman Empire
Kurdistan
Specialties
Religious Nationalism
Interfaith Relations
Languages
Syriac (advanced)
Kurmanji (advanced)
Turkish (advanced)
Arabic (advanced)
German (intermediate)
English (native)
Assyrian (elementary)
Education
MA | 2013 | Liberal Studies | Georgetown University
BA | 2009 | History, Religious Studies | Virginia Commonwealth University
Abstracts
Yezidi Identity in the Neighbor’s Gaze: Syriac Orthodox and Kurdish Perceptions The Impact of April, 1909 on Ottoman Syriac Christian and Kurdish Nationalist Movements