Graduate Student, Middle East Studies
PhD Student
College of Humanities
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Prof. Peter Sluglett
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About
I am a historian-in-the-making of the modern Middle East. Broadly speaking, I am interested in the construction of national identity, state-building, communal violence, and colonial-imperial encroachments in the Middle East. I am more interested in socio-economic/cultural and urban/intellectual histories than pure political histories; the political twist of my studies evolve out of my my fascination with social protests that I see the prime device to read history from the perspectives of those at the bottom. The histories of Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon are very appealing to me, while my focus on the late nineteenth-century Ottoman world cut across the borders of these nation-states. I found the transition from the empire to republic quite fascinating and my dissertation research focuses on all forms of protests in early Republican Turkey.
