Nilay Ozok-Gundogan is a historian of the Modern Middle East with a focus on the late Ottoman Empire. Her research interests include state-making, changing property regimes, and inter-ethnic relations in imperial peripheries. She teaches survey courses on the history of Islamic societies, the Modern Middle East, and the US-Middle East relations as well as upper-level seminars on social movements, ethno-religious conflicts, and cities in modern Middle East.

 

Dr. Ozok-Gundogan’s current research examines the transformation of the Ottoman state’s frontier administration in Kurdistan province during the Tanzimat (Reorganization) period.

 

She received her BA and MA from Bosphorus University, Istanbul and her Ph.D. from SUNY Binghamton. In 2011-2012, she was an ACM-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell College.