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

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I received my Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University and subsequently held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan. Before joining Norwich, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. I also hold an M.A. in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies from New York University, an M.A. in Political Science from the City University of New York, and a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from Boğaziçi University.

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My research and teaching focus on modern Middle Eastern and global history, with particular interests in empire, colonialism, state formation, historical geography, and the politics of race and ethnicity. Drawing on multilingual archival research and transnational approaches, my scholarship examines how imperial transformations and post-imperial state-building reshaped territories, populations, and political belonging across the late Ottoman Empire and its successor states. My broader research explores the interconnected histories of the modern Middle East and the emergence of the United States as a world-making power..