Ozan Ozavci
Dr. Ozan Ozavci is Associate Professor of Transimperial History at Utrecht University, and associate member at the Centre d’Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques (CETOBaC, UMR 8032) in Paris. Following the completion of his ERC-funded monograph titled Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864 (Oxford University Press, 2021), he’s currently finalizing his third monograph (under contract with Bloomsbury) that looks into the two Istanbul embassies of the Scottish diplomat Sir Robert Liston. In this book, he discusses the intimate connections between the capitulations and peace-making at the turn of the nineteenth century. He is Principal Investigator of an ERC Consolidator Grant-funded project on Global North-South Public Health Cooperation in the MENA region. This project has opened a new area of research and collaborative activity for TLP.
Jonathan Conlin
Jonathan Conlin is Professor of Modern History at the University of Southampton. A historian of Britain by training, he became interested in late Ottoman/Middle East history as Principal Investigator of the Gulbenkian Biography Project (2012-7). The resulting biography, Mr Five Per Cent: the Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, The World’s Richest Man (Profile, 2019) has been translated into five languages and won the 2020 BAC Wadsworth Prize for Business History. Jon has also published a suite of articles on Ottoman loans, naval financing and oil diplomacy. He is collaborating with Julia Secklehner on a children’s book about Lausanne, a sequel to the graphic novel they wrote together with Ozan Ozavci.
Julia Secklehner
Dr. Julia Secklehner is a historian of modern art and visual culture. She is a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Constructor University, Bremen, and collaborates on the project “Beyond the Village. Folk Cultures as Agents of Modernity, 1918-1945” at Masaryk University in Brno. Her recent book Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis (Routledge, 2025) explores the importance of regionalism and rural culture in Austrian modernism. In addition to contributing a chapter on the Hungarian artists Derso and Kelèn to the Project’s edited volume, Julia has coordinated the production of our graphic novel and advised the Lausanne History Museum on their centenary exhibition. She is currently developing a children’s book about Lausanne, set in the Palais de Rumine.
Georgios Giannakopoulos
Dr. Georgios (Yorgos) Giannakopoulos lectures in modern history at City University of London and is a visiting research fellow at the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London. His research focuses on the international and intellectual history of Britain and Southeastern Europe. He also runs the Global 1922 project – a project that aims to place the Greek-Turkish entanglements in Anatolia in the wider context of imperial transitions across Europe and the Middle East in the 1920s. Alongside Alexandria Innes, he convened the 2024 TLP conference about the Cyprus Question, and hosted the resulting podcast series. Together with Jonathan Conlin, he is organizing an international workshop and volume dedicated to Arnold J. Toynbee.
Enno Maessen
Dr Enno Maessen is Assistant Professor of History at Utrecht University. His recent book Representing Modern Istanbul, published with I.B. Tauris (2022), discusses the urban history of Istanbul and Beyoğlu through the lens of cultural representation and (trans)national entanglements and is currently being translated to Turkish. His research interests cover the fields of urban history, modern Turkey, the Eastern Mediterranean region, social movements and the politics of representation in the second half of the twentieth century. Enno is coordinator of the Turkey Studies Network in the Low Countries (TSN), and has hosted some of TLP’s most popular podcast episodes.
Angelos Palikidis
Angelos Palikidis is Associate Professor of History Didactics at the Department of History & Ethnology of the Democritus University of Thrace, where he also serves as Director of the Laboratory of Technology, Research & Applications in Education. He sits on the board of the International Society of History Didactics and is an expert in history education at the Council of Europe. His research focuses on history curricula and textbooks, the teaching of controversial issues in post-conflict societies and the relationship between history education and democratic culture, as well as between public and local history. His books include Art and Historical Consciousness in 19th-Century Greece. Image, History, Education. As well as leading our teacher workshops in Lausanne itself, Angelos recently completed a Teacher’s Guide to Lausanne, that TLP aims to publish in Greek and Turkish, in collaboration with our partners AHEG and Tarih Vakfi.
Cyprus Project Editor
Dr Alexandria Innes is Reader in International Politics at City St George’s University of London and Director of the Participatory Action Research Group in Migration and Border Violence. She has published two monographs and over twenty articles in international migration and critical security studies. She is CI on the VISION Consortium Violence, Health and Society. She convened the 2024 TLP conference Partitioning for Peace, and co-hosted the resulting podcast series.
Project Intern
Dimitrios Mitsopoulos is a Ph.D. student in modern European history and a Richard Hofstadter Fellow at Columbia University. His research interests mainly focus on the history of illicit trade, trafficking, and criminality in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean. Dimitris completed his BA at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and his MA in Global History at the Free and Humboldt Universities of Berlin, as a DAAD scholar. Dimitrios has translated TLP lesson plans into Greek and undertaken scoping research for our teacher’s workshops.
Project Intern
Aggeliki Stamati is a postgraduate student of Middle Eastern Studies at Leiden University. She completed her degree at the University of Macedonia in the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies. Her research interests focus on contemporary Turkish history and politics, Cyprus, the Turkish Cypriot community and the Left. Aggeliki assisted with organization of TLP’s 2023 Thessaloniki conference, and has also translated a number of blogposts for TLP’s Greek-language site.
Website Consultant
Bryony Harris is a PhD student at Utrecht University. Alongside assisting with the design and launch of the project website she researched her thesis on the Irish Free State’s response to the Lausanne ‘episode’. Bryony received her BA(Hons) in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford and her MA from Royal Holloway, University of London in Victorian Art, Literature and Culture.
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