Our workshop participants bring knowledge, expertise and experience from institutions across the world. Click on their names for publications and recent projects

K. HERMAN ADNEY

PhD candidate at UCLA

ALPAN AYTEK SONER

Completed his PhD at UC San Diego

CEMIL AYDIN

Professor of History at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

DJENE RHYS BAJALAN

Associate Professor of History at Missouri State

ISA BLUMI

Associate Professor/Docent, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University

NERGIS CANEFE

Professor of Politics at York University

NATHALIE CLAYER

Senior Researcher at the Centre for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies at EHESS

MARIA DIMITRIADOU

Curator of the Historical Archives Department of the Benaki Museum, Athens

LERNA EKMEKÇİOĞLU

McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History, MIT

STACY D. FAHRENTHOLD

Associate Professor of History, UC Davis

KRISTINA GEDGAUDAITE

Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Amsterdam

JAMES GIFFORD

Professor of English, Farleigh Dickinson University

ERIK GOLDSTEIN

Professor of International Relations and Professor of History, Boston University

EMMA HATTO

Recent PhD graduate and Tutor at the University of Southampton

ASLI IGSIZ

Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYU

DIMITRIS KAMOUZIS

Researcher at the Centre for Asia Minor Studies, Athens

ZEYNEP KASLI

Assistant Professor, International Institute of Social Studies, Ersasmus University Rotterdam

AYSE BADUR KOSE

Urbanization and Local Governance Cluster Coordinator, Istanbul Policy Centre, Sabanci University

OLGA LAFAZANI

Researcher at the National Hellenic Research Foundation

DANIEL-JOSEPH MACARTHUR SEAL

Assistant Director, British Institute at Ankara (BIAA)

PHILIP MANSEL

Independent Scholar and founder of the Society for Court Studies

JOHN PAUL NEWMAN

Associate Professor in Twentieth-century European History, NUI Maynooth

OZAN OZAVCI

Assistant Professor of Transimperial History, Utrecht University

ETIENNE PEYRAT

Assistant Professor of History,
Sciences Po Lille & University of Lille

DAVIDE RODOGNO

Professor of International History & Politics,
Graduate Institute of International & Development Studies, Geneva

DANILO SARENAC

Institute for Contemporary History, Belgrade

NAREG SEFERIAN

Independent Scholar

CIHAN TEKAY

PhD Candidate in Anthropology at City University of New York

ANDREI TIRTAN

recently completed a PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

KONSTANTINOS TRAVLOS

Instructor of Political Science, Great Basin College.

MARTIN VAN BRUINESSEN

Professor of the Comparative Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies, Utrecht University

JAY WINTER

Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University

ALI ZAHID

PhD candidate at the University of Barcelona

ARDA AKINCI

PhD candidate at the University of Salamanca

LEYLA AMZI-ERDOGDULAR

Assistant Professor and Director of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (MEIS), Rutgers

MARC AYMES

Director of the Centre d’Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques (CETOBaC), Paris

LAUREN BANKO

Research Fellow at the University of Manchester

HAMIT BOZARSLAN

Associate Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

GÖKHAN ÇETİNSAYA

İstanbul Şehir University (retired)

JONATHAN CONLIN

Professor of History at the University of Southampton

PAULINA DOMINIK

Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute

EDHEM ELDEM

Professor of History at Boğaziçi University

MARI FIRKATIAN

Professor of History, University of Hartford

AIMEE GENELL

Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History, University of West Georgia

RYAN GINGERAS

Professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School

YAPRAK GÜRSOY

Professor of European Politics and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies, London School of Economics

EDIZ HAZIR

PhD candidate at the University of Groningen

HAAKON IKONOMOU

Associate Professor at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen

PANAGIOTIS KARAGKOUNIS

PhD Student in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response at the University of Manchester

HANS LUKAS KIESER

Associate Professor of History at the Centre for the Study of Violence, University of Newcastle, Australia

UMIT KURT

Member of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

ALEKOS LAMPROU

Lecturer in the Department of East European History at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

ENNO MAESSEN

Department of History, Utrecht University

MOSTAFA MINAWI

Associate Professor of History and the Director of Critical Ottoman & Post-Ottoman Studies, Cornell

ZEYNEP OGUZ

Lecturer in Anthropology of Development, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh

ANDREW PATRICK

History Faculty, Tennessee State University

CHRISTINE PHILLIOU

Professor of History, UC Berkeley

JAMES RYAN

Associate Director of Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. NYU

PATRICK SCHILLING

PhD candidate in History, Georgetown

SARAH SHIELDS

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, University of North Carolina

ELIZABETH F. THOMPSON

Professor of History and Mohamed S. Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace at American University in Washington, DC

KONSTANTINOS TSITSELIKIS

Professor in the Department of Balkan, Slavic & Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia

MICHELLE TUSAN

Professor of History, University of Nevada
Las Vegas

JAMIE WALTERS

Writer and Graduate Teaching Assistant, Virginia Commonwealth University,

SALIH YASUN

PhD Candidate at Indiana University-Bloomington Department of Political Science

ERIK-JAN ZURCHER

Professor of Turkish Studies Emeritus, Universiteit Leiden

MUSTAFA AKSAKAL

Associate Professor in History, Georgetown

THEOCHARIS ANAGNOSTOPOULOS

School of Social Theology and Christian Culture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

IHSAN ILKER AYTÜRK

Associate Professor at Bilkent University

ATHANASIOS IGNATIS

PhD candidate at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

ILKIM BUKE OKYAR

Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yeditepe University

WILLIAM CLARENCE-SMITH

Professor of the Economic History of Asia and Africa, SOAS

NICK DANFORTH

Senior Visiting Fellow for the German Marshall Fund

HOWARD EISSENSTAT

Associate Professor of History, St Lawrence University

EMRE EROL

Faculty Member, Department of History, Sabanci University

CHARALAMPOS GAPPAS

PhD student in History at UNC Chapel Hill

GEORGIOS GIANNAKOPOULOS

Lecturer in Modern History, City University

SEMIH GOKATALAY

PhD candidate at UC San Diego

ISAAC HAND

Core Curriculum Post-Doctoral Lecturer at NYU

SAM HIRST

Assistant Professor of International Relations, Bilkent University

BESTE ISLEYEN

Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam

KOSTIS KARPOZILOS

Director of the Contemporary Social History Archives (ASKI), Athens, Greece)

LEILA KOOCHAKZADEH

Chargée de cours, INALCO, Paris

ELENI KYRAMARGIOU

Post-doctoral researcher, Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Crete

CAROLIN LIEBISCH-GÜMÜS

Research Fellow, German Historical Institute Washington

HÉLÈNE MALOIGNE

Associate Lecturer (Teaching) at the Department of History, UCL

ELLINOR MORACK

Lecturer in Turkish Studies at the University of Bamberg

ALI OKUMUS

History Department, Bilecik University

DAVID PATEL

Associate Director for Research, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University (Massachusetts, USA)

LAURA ROBSON

Oliver-Mccourtney Professor of History,
Penn State University

MEHDI SAJID

Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Utrecht University

JULIA SECKLEHNER

Research Fellow for the CRAACE Project at the Department of Art History, Masaryk University (Bro

LEONARD SMITH

Frederick B. Artz Professor of History, Oberlin College

TODD THOMPSON

Associate Professor of History at Torrey Honors College, Biola University

GIZEM TONGO

Lecturer, Middle East Technical University

ZENONAS TZIARRAS

Lecturer in the Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cyprus

VANDA WILCOX

Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, John Cabot University

ALP YENEN

University Lecturer in Modern Turkish History and Culture, Universiteit Leiden