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I am an Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and North African History and Director of International Studies Program at Norwich University, the oldest senior military college in the United States and the birthplace of ROTC.

 

I received my Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University and later held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Before joining Norwich, I taught in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University as a Visiting Assistant Professor. I also hold an M.A. in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies from NYU, an M.A. in Political Science from the CUNY, and a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from Boğaziçi University.

 

My research investigates how late Ottoman transformations and post-imperial restructuring produced new regimes of identity, governance, and territorial control, with a focus on Kurdish regions. My work grows out of extensive archival research and lived experience across the Middle East, Europe, and North America, grounding my scholarship in both global contexts and the local worlds in which statehood and statelessness take shape.