Biography Biography In my previous research, I examined the social and urban landscape transformations in Ottoman Smyrna over the longue durée, from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. My current research explores the circulation of people, materials, and ideas across cultural, ethnic, and religious boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean during the long nineteenth …
Biography Biography I am studying the Japanese legal modernization process within the framework of the nineteenth-century global order and international law. In my M.A. thesis, I focused on the Japanese research on the Mixed Courts of Egypt as a part of the Meiji government’s efforts to abolish extraterritorial treaties. My research interests include institutional transformations …
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 …