Biography
My research focuses on labor history, penal modernity, and the emergence of law enforcement institutions. I specialize in the late Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East, which I approach from a comparative perspective. For my M.A. thesis, I examined the rise of obligatory labor in road construction in the 19th-century Ottoman Empire, with particular attention to its legal frameworks and working conditions.
Education
M.A., Boğaziçi University
B.A., Boğaziçi University
Field
- Middle East & North African History
MA Title
- “Implementing Obligatory Labor in Road Construction during the Tanzimat Period”
Selected Awards
- M.A. Scholarship (Domestic), TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), 2021-2023
- Training School Scholarship, COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action WORCK (Worlds of Related Coercions in Work), 2022
- High Honors (B.A. in History), Boğaziçi University, 2021
- Erasmus+ Grant, European Union, for Exchange Studies at Sciences Po Paris, 2019
- Undergraduate Scholarship, Borusan Kocabıyık Foundation, 2015-2021