My scholarship places the Middle East at the center of global histories of technology, empire, and environment. I examine how technologies of violence, racialized power, and geopolitical design reshaped the region by transforming its landscapes into sites of governance and experimentation. Focusing on the late Ottoman and post-Ottoman periods, my work analyzes roads, mapping projects, surveillance practices, and administrative interventions as the material processes through which sovereignty, belonging, and territorial order were remade. Drawing on multilingual archival research across six countries, I show how regions such as Dersim became laboratories for new modes of managing populations and environments.

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My work reveals the Middle East not as a peripheral case but as a key terrain for understanding how modern states around the world were engineered through racialized governance, infrastructural ambition, and environmental transformation. Across my book manuscript and ongoing projects, I connect Middle Eastern history to global debates on empire, modernity, and the technological and ecological systems that structure political authority.