Thesis Title:
Cars in the Late Ottoman Territories and Early Republican era Turkey
Supervisor:
Dr Andrew Hammond
Educational Background:
MA, UCLA, Islamic Studies, Los Angeles, CA (expertise in History of Islamic and Ottoman Law, History of Islams and Muslims in Modern Era, History of Islam).
MA, Istanbul University, Istanbul (Urban history in the 16th century Ottoman Poetry).
BA, Istanbul University, Turkish Language and Literature.
Research Interests:
Global History; History of the Mediterranean; Political Theory of Democracy; History of Capitalism, Imperialism, and International Relations; History of Technology; Urban and Development Geography; Interfaith Theology; Public Humanities; Decolonisation.
Recent publications/Conference papers
“A Transport Revolution Unfolding? Transport Capitalism and Democratisation in Late Ottoman Era,” The 58th Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Virtual, November 11-16, 2024.
"Transportation, Roads and Political Ideologies: Legacies of Globalisation, Transportation and Capitalism in Late Ottoman Era," BRISMES, 1-3 July 2024, Lancaster University, UK.
“ Illiberal Liberalism, Liberal Illiberalism: Scramble for the Mediterranean for Market Integration in the Long Nineteenth Century,” 74th PSA Annual International Conference, 25-27 March 2024, in the section of History and International Relations, University of Glasgow, UK.
“Poetical Islam: An Environmental Theology?” Faith and the Environment Conference, Centre for Muslim – Christian Relations, 1 March 2024, Oxford, UK.
“What are the Histories of Islams and Muslims a History of?” Islamic Studies Network, Work in Progress Papers, 14 November 2023, Faculty of Religion and Theology, Oxford University, UK.
“Transport Technologies and Pan-Ideologies: Connecting the Interior in Ottoman Territories in Global Context (1850-1910),” MESA, 2 November 2023, in the section "Ottoman Social and Environmental Engineering in the Long Nineteenth Century," Montreal, CA.
“Roads, Transport Revolution, and Late Ottoman and Qajar Era Religious Roots of Secularism in the 1920s Turkey,” International Conference “Culture, Infrastructure, Mobility,” 9 October 2023, Sofia University, Bulgaria.
“Technology Adoption and Populist Sentiments: Making a People by Inventing the ‘Others’ in the Middle East at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” IPSA, 15-19 July 2023, in the section Politics in the Age of Transboundary Crises, Argentina.
“‘The petrol-gas that we know’: Ottoman Encounter with Cars and Negotiating Globalisation,” World History Congress, 22-24 June 2023, Pittsburgh, PA, US.
“Driving Through the Ottoman Lands: The Ban on Cars and the Ottoman Negotiation of Globalisation,” Writing Global History: Perspectives from the South Workshop, organised by South Asia Global History Network, 12-14 January 2023 (virtual).
