Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Currently a PhD Candidate at Stanford University, History Department, Merve received their BA from Freie Universität Berlin and worked there as a student assistant with the Chair for the Early Modern History. Their main focus has been on the interactions and relations of the Ottoman Empire with Central Europe, particularly with Germany. Currently they are working on Ottoman-Polish borderlands of 17th and 18th centuries, with an emphasis on the changes and continuities in the region during the partitions of Poland. Merve is involved in multiple Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) projects and working on their own project on developing a text recognition model for 18th century state documents in Ottoman Turkish
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
Balkan Studies
Ottoman Studies
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Europe
Ottoman Empire
Other
Specialties
Ottoman-Eastern/Central European Studies
News And Information
Digital Humanities
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (fluent)
German (fluent)
French (elementary)
Polish (intermediate)
Russian (elementary)
Education
MA
| 2021
| History
| Stanford University
BA
| 2018
| History
| Freie Universitaet Berlin
Abstracts
Handwritten Text Recognition for 18th Century Ottoman Turkish Documents
Crucible of Empire: Ottoman-Polish Borderlands in the Long Eighteenth Century
