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ABOUT
I am a historian of the Ottoman Middle East and Africa with training in the global history of empires, maritime history, and the history of the Mediterranean. My work examines corsairs, caravans and empires in turn of the nineteenth-century North Africa. In doing so, my research interrogates historiographical conceptualizations of space, the topographical as well as provincial borders of multiple regions, empires and zones of influence to better understand issues of conflict, governance and local resistance.
My dissertation, “Commandeering Empire: Egypt, Tripoli, and Tunis during the Age of Revolution, 1774-1835,” is based on over two years of archival research in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, French, and English archives in North Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, France and the United States.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Middle East/Near East Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Ottoman Studies
Mediterranean Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Egypt
Libya
Tunisia
Specialties
Corsairs, Maghreb, Empires, Sahel, History
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (intermediate)
Spanish (fluent)
Turkish (intermediate)
Education
DPhil
| 2016
| History
| University of Pennsylvania
Abstracts
Contexualizing 1798 in the Ottoman and North African Worlds
Tripolitan Bornu: North African Empire Building
