Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Department of Global Studies
Social Sciences & Media Studies, 2nd Floor
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara
CA
93106–7065
United States
ABOUT
I am an Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I specialize in global migration and displacement. By training, I am a historian of the late Ottoman Empire, with a focus on migration between the Ottoman and Russian empires. My current book project examines the resettlement of North Caucasian refugees in the Ottoman Empire between the 1850s and World War I. My scholarship is based on archival research in Turkey, Jordan, Bulgaria, the United Kingdom, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia, including the North Caucasian republics of Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia-Alania, and Dagestan. My research and writing have been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment of Humanities, and the American Historical Association. I held residential fellowships at the American research centers in Amman and Sofia. My work appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and Past and Present.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Ottoman Studies
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Turkey
Ottoman Empire
Palestine
Caucasus
Syria
Anatolia
Balkans
Jordan
Specialties
Migration
Refugees
Languages
Russian (native)
Arabic (advanced)
Turkish (advanced)
Ottoman (advanced)
Bulgarian (intermediate)
Education
DPhil
| 2018
| History
| Stanford University
MA
| 2013
| History
| Stanford University
MSci
| 2011
| Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
| University of Edinburgh
MA (Hons)
| 2010
| Arabic/International Relations
| University of St Andrews
Abstracts
Writing Refugee Voices into History: North Caucasus Immigrants in the Ottoman Empire
Refugees and Capitalism: Land and Investment in Ottoman Transjordan, 1890-1914
Making the Late Ottoman Refugee Regime
Ottoman and Egyptian Quarantines and Russian Inspectors in the 1830s–40s
Refugees’ “Abandoned Land” in the Post-1878 Balkans
North Caucasian Refugee Resettlement in the Late Ottoman Empire
