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

MUSTAFA AKSAKAL

Nesuhi Ertegün Chair of Modern Turkish Studies & Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University

LAUREN BANKO

Research Associate, Department of History, University of Manchester

ILKIM BUKE OKYAR

Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yeditepe University

JONATHAN CONLIN

Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Southampton

AIMEE GENELL

Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History, University of West Georgia

SAM HIRST

Assistant Professor of International Relations, Bilkent University

ZEYNEP KAŞLI

Assistant Professor at International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam

AYŞE KÖSE BADUR

PhD Candidate in History at
Boğaziçi University

DAVID PATEL

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

CIHAN TEKAY

PhD Candidate in Anthropology at City University of New York

DAVIDE RODOGNO

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

JULIA SECKLEHNER

Research Fellow for the CRAACE Project at the Department of Art History, Masaryk University (Brno, Czechia)

CEMIL AYDIN

Professor of History at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

ISA BLUMI

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

GÖKHAN ÇETİNSAYA

İstanbul Şehir University (retired)

MARIA DIMITRIADOU

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

ERIK GOLDSTEIN

Professor of International Relations and Professor of History, Boston University

HAAKON IKONOMOU

Associate Professor at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen

HANS LUKAS KIESER

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

OZAN OZAVCI

Assistant Professor of Transimperial History at
Utrecht University

ETIENNE PEYRAT

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

JAMES RYAN

Associate Director of Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies

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

MARC AYMES

Research Professor at CNRS and EHESS
Paris, France

HAMIT BOZARSLAN

Director of Studies at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris

NATHALIE CLAYER

Director of Research at CETOBAC

LERNA EKMEKÇİOĞLU

McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History, MIT

BRYONY HARRIS

Project Intern for
The Lausanne Project

DIMITRIS KAMOUZIS

Researcher, Centre for Asia Minor Studies
Athens, Greece

LEILA KOOCHAKZADEH

Lecturer at the Institut Nationale des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INaLCO), Paris

ANDREW PATRICK

Associate Professor of History,
Tennessee State University

LAURA ROBSON

Oliver-Mccourtney Professor of History,
Penn State University

PATRICK SCHILLING

PhD candidate in history at
Georgetown University

MICHELLE TUSAN

Professor of History, University of Nevada
Las Vegas

LEONARD SMITH [photo credits: Bryan Rubin, Oberlin College Class of 2018]

Frederick B. Artz Professor of History, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio (USA)