Contributors
- Contributors
John T. Chen is a doctoral student in international and global history at Columbia University. His research interests include Chinese Muslim history, decolonization, intellectual history, and modern and premodern intra-Asian exchange. Previously, he worked as a research associate at a US foreign policy think tank, and before that he lived in Cairo, Egypt, studying Arabic at the American University in Cairo’s Center for Arabic Study Abroad with the support of Fulbright and Critical Language fellowships. A native of Needham, Massachusetts, he earned his BA from Harvard University in 2008.
Arash Davari is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. His dissertation research considers state consolidation in revolutionary Iran, with particular emphases on questions of narrative and subjectivity. He is cofounder and coeditor of B|ta’arof, an independent magazine for Iranian arts and histories.
J. Daniel Elam is a PhD candidate in the Rhetoric and Public Culture Program at Northwestern University. He works on Indian anticolonial thought in the early decades of the twentieth century. His dissertation focuses on writings by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Lala Har Dayal, Mulk Raj Anand, and Saint Nihal Singh.
David Gutman is an assistant professor of history at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, who received a PhD in Ottoman History from Binghamton University. His primary research interests deal with questions of migration, mobility control, and the disciplining of labor, the link between migration and citizenship, and human smuggling. His work on the relationship between the Ottoman state and its Armenian populations in the empire’s final decades sheds important light on this era of history still dominated by the tragic shadow of the Armenian genocide. His article “Agents of Mobility: Migrant Smuggling Networks, Transhemispheric Migration, and Time-Space Compression in Ottoman Anatolia, 1888–1908” was published in 2012 in the journal InterDisciplines.
Nurcin Ileri is a PhD candidate in History at Binghamton University. Her area of research is the late Ottoman period, and she is particularly interested in the emergence and importance of distinctly nocturnal sites of socialization in historic Istanbul—in other words, nightlife. Her project involves the serious consideration of many diverse facets of urban life, including technology, administration, policing, commerce, industry, crime, and popular culture.
Irfan Kokdas is a PhD candidate at Binghamton University and currently a research fellow at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. His research interests include the workings of local autonomy in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Balkans and early modern political culture(s) as well as substructures in the Ottoman world.
Can Nacar received his PhD from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2010. Currently he is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Koç University.
Golnar Nikpour is a PhD candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. Her research interests include political philosophy, postcolonialism, comparative revolutions, transnational feminisms, and critical prison studies, specifically in the context of modern Iran. She was the 2012–2013 Institute on Research on Women and Gender at Columbia Graduate Fellow, and a recipient of a 2013–2014 Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship. She is currently at work on her dissertation and is also cofounder and coeditor of B|ta’arof magazine, a journal for Iranian arts and histories (www.btaarof.com). [End Page 220]
Fulya Ozkan completed her PhD in the Department of History at State University of New York Binghamton. Her areas of interest include Middle Eastern politics and the social history of the late Ottoman Empire. Currently, she works as assistant professor in the Department of International Relations at Akdeniz (Mediterranean) University in Antalya, Turkey.
Nilay Özok-Gündoğan is an assistant professor of history at Denison University. She received her PhD from Binghamton University. She was an ACM-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell College in 2011–2012. She specializes in the history of the late Ottoman Empire with a particular focus on the social history of Ottoman Kurdistan. Currently, she is working on her book manuscript, which examines the Ottoman state’s policy of integrating its Kurdish-Armenian “periphery” into the administrative practices of the centralizing government in Istanbul in the nineteenth...
