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My research explores how race, empire, and technology shaped the modern Middle East. I study the late Ottoman and post-Ottoman periods through roads, maps, and administrative projects that redefined sovereignty and belonging across imperial and national boundaries. Drawing on multilingual archives in Turkish, Kurdish, Persian, English, French, and Russian, my work situates the making of modern states in the Middle East within global histories of racial thought, colonialism, and technologies of violence and infrastructure, revealing how local landscapes such as Dersim became laboratories for engineering the “modern” world.

 

Below are the links to some of my publications to date.  ​​