EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - 2018: Institute for Area Studies, Turkish Studies Program, Leiden University & The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Boğaziçi University, Cotutel Program.
Thesis title: The Struggle Within: “Moral Crisis” on the Ottoman Homefront during the First World War (Advisors: Erik Jan Zürcher & M. Asım Karaömerlioğlu)
Master's Degree (MA) - 2011: The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Boğaziçi University
Thesis title: Negotiating the Terms of Mercy: Petitions and Pardon Cases in the Hamidian Era (Advisor: Cengiz Kırlı)
Bachelor's Degree (BA, cum laude) - 2008: Department of History, Middle East Technical University
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
National Scientific Habilitation for SSD L-OR/10 of SC 10/N1 (valid from 15/06/2023 to 15/06/2034).
RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
1- Research Fellowship (post-doc), University of Naples Federico II, Department of Humanities “MIUR - PRIN 2015 War and Citizenship. Redrawing the boundaries of citizenship in the First World War and its aftermath - CUP E66Jl6000860001,” PI: Prof. Daniela L. Caglioti, February 1, 2019 - January 31, 2020. Grant for conducting research on citizens of enemy nationality in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.
2- Mobility grant, EHESS-CETOBAC (Centre d'Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques), Paris, April 4 - 11, 2019.
3- Fellowship, Turkish Historical Society Foundation (TTK) for War Studies, January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2015.
4- Fellowship for participation in International Conference, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) for MESA conference in New Orleans, November 2013.
5- Scholarship of the Middle East Technical University Alumni Association, Ankara, 2007 - 2008.
6- Turkish Republic Scholarship for Higher Education, (KYK) 2003 - 2008.
RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS
1. ARIT (American Research Institute in Turkey): Award for the best PhD thesis project - year 2017.
2. Middle East Technical University, Dean's Honor List (First Semester 2004 - 2005, First Semester 2006 - 2007, First and Second Semesters 2007 - 2008).
3. Middle East Technical University, Dean's High Honor List (Second Semester 2006 - 2007).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1. Teaching activity (60 hours per year) as Researcher on fixed-term contract (RTDa) of the Scientific Disciplinary Sector: L-OR/10, Department of History Cultures Civilizations, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna. The courses taught:
History of the Ottoman Empire (6 cfu, bachelor's degree teaching activity in Italian) and The Ottoman Empire in the Eurasian Context (6 cfu. master's degree teaching activity in English). (Oct. 7, 2020 to present).
2. Native Turkish language instructor CEL, University of Naples “L'Orientale” (April 16, 2020 to August 1, 2020).
3. Adjunct lecturer, FMV Işık University, Istanbul, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Part-time contract, teaching in Turkish for undergraduate courses for third and fourth year students. Lecturer of the courses of: “History of Contemporary Turkey” and ”History of the Modernization of the Ottoman Empire.” Teaching 12 hours per week over 6 classes. (January 1, 2016 - June 30, 2016
4. Research assistant - Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History.
Full-time contract, two courses taught each semester, teaching in Turkish for undergraduate courses for third- and fourth-year students: “History of the Turkish Republic I” and “History of the Turkish Republic II”. Teaching 4 hours per week over 2 classes. (January 15, 2013 - January 14, 2016).
RESEARCH PROJECTS
1. Researcher - CENDARI (Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure) Freie Universität Berlin. Research in Ottoman archives on archival collections related to World War I, from November 1, 2015 - January 22, 2016.
2. Researcher - Nar Tourism Company - Meroddi Hotels for writing the history of “Barnathan” Apartments in Galata district, Istanbul. Research of trade directories, maps, Cadastre Archives, Ottoman Archives and various resources in different libraries in Istanbul, from November 1, 2011 - June 30, 2014.
3. Researcher - TUBITAK Project No: 111K113. In-depth interviews with 40 women in Florya and Nişantaşı neighborhoods in Istanbul for a project entitled “Inheritance, Gender and Property: Women and Civic Law in Turkey,” Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Şule Toktaş, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, from October 1, 2011 - October 1, 2012.
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
1- Member of the editorial board - Contemporanea ISSN 1127-3070.
2- Member of the editorial board - Diacronie, Studies in Contemporary History ISSN 2038-0925.
3- Member of the scientific committee of the Orso Blu series , Scholé - Editrice Morcelliana.
SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATIONS
1- Affiliated researcher, Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS), March 2017 - ongoing.
2- Affiliated Researcher, CETOBaC, EHESS, October 1, 2018 - ongoing.
3- Visiting Scholar, Department of Comparative Linguistic and Cultural Studies, Ca' Foscari University Venice, February 1, 2019 - September 1, 2019.
4- Guest Researcher, LIAS, Turkish Studies Program, Leiden University, June 14, 2018 - October 30, 2018.
5- Member of Society for Middle East Studies - SeSaMo.
6- Member of Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History - (SISSCO)
7- Member of Italian Society of Woman Historians - (SIS)
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS (asterisk* indicates conferences/presentations accepted through peer-review process; all others are conferences/presentations given by invitation)
1. “Beyond the Nationalist Propaganda: Rethinking Ottoman Literary Production on the Italo-Turkish War of 1911,” in the conference Responding to Invasion: Afro-Asian Reactions to the Italo-Ottoman War 1911-1912, University of Pavia, February 9, 2024.
2. Discussant at the seminar Palestina-Israele. Dal sionismo delle origini al 1948: eventi, documenti, interpretazioni, organized by Caterina Bori, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, January 22, 2024.
3. “‘My Ottoman Citizenship’: Belonging and Nationality in the Post-Ottoman Era,” in the international conference Turkologentag 2023 The Fourth European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies, Vienna, September 21-23, 2023. *
4. Presentation of the book “History of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic,” and discussion with Arturo Marzano and Renata Pepicelli at the Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge, University of Pisa, May 10, 2023.
5. “Nel fronte interno: Le memorie delle donne della Prima guerra mondiale ottomana,” seminar as part of the seminar series “Il silenzio delle ragazze” for the students of the doctoral program in Scienze storiche e archeologiche at Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, March 24, 2023.
6. “Justifying War and Defense during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911 in the Ottoman Empire and Italy,” seminar as part of the seminar series for doctoral students in the PhD program in History at the University of Pavia, February 22, 2023.
7. Presentation and discussion of “Online Book Talk: Moral Crisis in the Ottoman Empire, Society, Politics, and Gender during World War I,” Özyeğin University, Social Sciences Faculty, Istanbul, October 28, 2022.
8. “A History Today: The Ottoman Empire Between Past and Present,” in the international conference 1922-2022: The Centenary of the End of the Ottoman Empire, History, Political Change, and Legacy organized by Çiğdem Oğuz, Francesca Biancani with the scientific committee consisting of Caterina Bori, Paolo Capuzzo, Mattia Guidetti
Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
(Department of History Cultures Civilizations & Department of Political Science), October 24-25, 2022.
9. “Moral Crisis and its Aftermath: The Quest for a New Life in the Late Ottoman Era,” in 15th Convention of the Society of Middle Eastern Studies - SeSaMo for the panel “Buhran par excellence: Cultural, Social and Identity Crises in the Late Ottoman Era,” organized by Çiğdem Oğuz, University of Naples “L'Orientale,” June 22-24, 2022. *
10. “Citizenship under Investigation: Ottomans, Enemy Aliens, and Citizenship Disputes in the Aftermath of World War I,” in the conference Nationality and Citizenship in Occupied Istanbul (1919-1923), Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples, June 9, 2022.
11. “Gender and WWI,” seminar as part of the workshop The Great War in the Middle East and North Africa, Yale University, New Haven, May 12-13, 2022.
12. “A Cross Reading of the Public Opinion Campaigns in Italy and the Ottoman Empire during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911,” seminar as part of the Research Workshop of the Program in Global History and Governance, Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples, March 15, 2022.
13. “Siyaset, Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Gündelik Hayat Bağlamında Cihan Harbinde Ahlakın Gayesi,” seminar organized by Tarih Vakfı as part of the Akl-ı Kıssa conversations with woman historians, March 8, 2022.
14. “Public Opinion, Propaganda and Cultural Mobilization on the Home Front(s) of Italo-Turkish War of 1911,” seminar as part of the Italo Ottoman Conversations series of meetings on relations between the Italian peninsula and the Ottoman Empire, organized by Casa Italia (Ankara) and sponsoring bodies, Embassy of Italy Ankara, University of Messina (DICAM), Levantine Heritage Foundation, online, October 7, 2021.
15. “La Turchia tra passato e presente: laicità, neo-ottomanesimo e società,” lecture as part of the webinar di storia contemporanea dell’associazione Amore per il Sapere – ApiS contemporary history webinars for Italian high school teachers, online, December 10, 2020. URL: https://www.amoreperilsapere.it/webinar/storia.
16. “Religions and Religious Groups in the Ottoman Empire,” lecture as part of the course Religion and Empires (Alessandro Mulieri), Peace Studies (Laurea Magistrale), American University of Rome, Rome, February 27, 2020.
17. “The Woman Question in Turkey: From Past to Today,” public seminar at the American University of Rome, Peace Studies Guest Lecture Series, February 27, 2020.
18. “Dissolving the Empire, Uniting the Citizens: Enemy Aliens and the Formation of a New Citizenship from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey,” in Citizenship Under Pressure. An Institutional Narrative about Nationality and Naturalization in Changing Boundaries (1880-1923), École française, Rome, February 11-12, 2020.
19. “Ottoman Citizenship and Enemy Aliens during the First World War,” seminar as part of the Contemporary History Seminars, Cycle XIII, Doctoral Program Global History and Governance, Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples, December 11, 2019.
20. “The Ottoman Empire in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries,” lecture as part of the Contemporary History (Rolf Petri), Ca' Foscari University, Venice, October 11, 2019.
21. “This is the Story of a Little Girl: Women's Memory of the Ottoman Empire at WWI,” in the conference Women of the Mediterranean, Sorrento, June 21-22, 2019. *
22. “Rethinking the Late Ottoman Intellectual History from the Perspectives of Global History and histoire croisée,” in the conference Rencontres du CETOBaC avec l'INaLCO, Paris, April 5, 2019.
23. “Reform and Conflict: The Arab Provinces of the Ottoman Empire XIX-XX Century,” lecture as part of the History of Islamic Countries Course (Renata Pepicelli), Storia e Civiltà (Master's Degree), University of Pisa, Pisa, March 7, 2019.
24. “Environment, Cultural Heritage, History and Post-Gezi Patterns of Resistance,” in the 14th Convention of the Society of Middle Eastern Studies - SeSaMo, Turin, January 31 - February 2, 2019. *
25. "Prospettive culturali sulla guerra italo-ottomana del 1911 e una controstoria dell'immigrazione”, nel convegno L’Italia e L’Islam. 12 secoli di storie in movimento: persone, merci e culture, Pisa, December 6-7, 2018.
26. Discussant at the international conference The Turk in 17th-19th Century Europe's Imagination and Musical Theater, organized by Rolf Petri at the German Center for Venetian Studies, November 15, 2018.
27. “Topyekûn Savaşta İctimâî İnkılab: Harb-i Umûmî'de Ahlak Buhranı ve 1917 Aile Hukuku Kararnamesinin Toplumsal ve Düşünsel Arkaplanı [Social Reforms in Total War: The Moral Crisis in the Great War and the Socio-intellectual Background of the 1917 Family Decree],” Tarih Vakfı, Istanbul, October 18, 2018.
28. “Debates about Morality and Moral Decline in the Ottoman Empire During World War I,” public seminar, The Netherlands Institute in Turkey, Istanbul, October 22, 2018.
29. “Morality and Contest Over Public Space on the Ottoman Home Front during the First World War,” in the international conference World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, WOCMES, Seville, July 16-20, 2018. *
30. “Reading the Mediterranean through Hemingway,” in the conference Mediterranean Europe(s): Images and Ideas of Europe from the Mediterranean Shores,9th Annual Symposium of the Research Network on the History of the Idea of Europe, Naples, July 4-6, 2018. *
31. “Sguardi di genere: storia e attualità dei movimenti femminili nell’Impero Ottomano e in Turchia,” lecture Corso di Storia dei Paesi Islamici (Renata Pepicelli), Storia e Civiltà (Master's Degree), University of Pisa, Pisa, May 10, 2018.
32. “Public Morality on the Ottoman Homefront During the First World War,” public seminar, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, June 15, 2017.
33. “The Wars and the so-called 'Morality Crisis' in the Late Ottoman Empire,” in the international conference 14th International Congress of Ottoman Social and Economic History (ICOSEH), Sofia, July 24-28, 2017. *
34. “Rape and Trial: Individuals in Search of State Protection on the Ottoman Homefront,” in the international conference In the Heart of Great War: The Individual at the Crossroads between the Civilian and Military Worlds, Mons, October 26-28, 2017. *
35. “‘Morality Crisis’ on the Ottoman Homefront during WWI,” public seminar, What's New Spring Lecture Series, Leiden University, Leiden, March 23, 2017.
36. “The Ottoman Empire: An Overview, Millet and Land Systems,” lecture Corso di Storia del Vicino Oriente (Arturo Marzano), Storia e Civiltà (Laurea Magistrale), University of Pisa, Pisa, September 30, 2016 & September 29, 2017.
37. “Reshaping the Leisure Time: Public Morality and Entertainment Venues during the First World War,” in Dark Histories: Nighttime and Nightlife in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Mediterranean, The British Institute at Ankara (BIAA) Workshop, Ankara, March 10, 2015.
38. “Merhamet ve Politika: II. Abdülhamid Dönemi Aflar ve Af Talepleri” [Piety and Politics: Grace and Requests for Grace in the Hamidian Era], in Middle East Technical University13th National Social Sciences Congress, Ankara, December 4-6, 2013. *
39. “Pardoning the Outlaws: Legitimacy and Negotiation during the Hamidian Era,” in MESA International Conference , Law and Legitimacy in the Ottoman Empire Conference Series, New Orleans, October 10-13, 2013. *
40. “The Pardons of the Hamidian Era: The Petitions and the State Policy,” in the international conference Interdisciplinary Studies4th Global Conference on Forgiveness, Mansfield College, Oxford, June 11, 2012. *
41. “Merhametin Koşullarını Müzakere Etmek: II. Abdülhamid Döneminde Af Talebi Arzuhalleri ve Aflar” [Negotiating the Terms of Grace: Grace and Grace Requests in the Hamidian Era], in the History of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey Graduate Student Symposium, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, May 14, 2012.*
Third Mission Activities / Interviews / Reviews:
1- “Il ruolo della donna e la sua educazione nei paesi islamici,” (interview), Rai Scuola, as part of the Brescia International Education Festival, held October 4-8, 2023.
2- “Donne e istruzione dal tardo impero ottomano alla prima repubblica turca,” (talk), International Education Festival, Brescia, October 6, 2023.
3- “Quale futuro per la Turchia,” (interview), Corriere della Sera Brescia, May 13, 2023.
4- “Turchia Dopo 20 anni può esserci una svolta,” (interview) Corriere del Ticino, May 09, 2023.
5- Alumni Talks on Youtube, METU History Club, Online https://youtu.be/IrpswFA0i8A?si=7Wa5MQbXD8H8jH-b. January 10, 2023.
6- “Turkey and Europe's Difficult History,” History Today, 72/8, August 2022. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/turkey-and-europes-difficult-history
7- “On Moral Panic and Westernisation in the Late Ottoman Era and Today,” Turkey Book Talk, January 4, 2022. https://turkeybooktalk.com/2022/01/04/cigdem-oguz-on-moral-panic-and-westernisation-in-the-late-ottoman-era-and-today/
8- “I. Dünya Savaşı'nda ‘Ahlak Buhranı’” [The Crisis of Morality during World War I], Ottoman History Podcast, February 28, 2021. https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/02/oguz.html
9-“The Best Books on the Middle East during the First World War,” shepherd.com. https://shepherd.com/best-books/the-middle-east-during-the-first-world-war
10-“We are at War: The Italian Home Front in the Fight against COVID-19,” The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association, Perspectives on History, May 2020 (published online April 21, 2020). https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/may-2020/we-are-at-war-the-italian-home-front-in-the-fight-against-covid-19
11- “Ideological Debates of the Second Constitutional Period (1912-1918),” History and Culture of Turkey, Online Teaching Materials at https://rise.articulate.com/share/GM3dwzWXv8UPPgvhRAbXsRu1_VJfsRLS#/lessons/XcEVArus9HfpH8Am5BajLFj5MxjAg1qH
12- “Asker Zevcesi İnegöllü Ayşe bint-i İsmail'in Hikayesi” [The Story of the Soldier's Wife: Ayşe, the Daughter of Ismail from Inegol], in Tarihçilerden Başka Bir Hikaye. [A different story told by historians] (N. İleri, E. Aykut, F. Artvinli eds.), Istanbul, Can Yayınları, 2019, 133 - 143.
13- Review of: Kadınların Mülk ve Miras Edinmesi: Kemalist Aydınlanma ve İslami Sosyolojik Süreçler [Women and property acquisition: Kemalist and Islamic sociological processes], by Şule Toktaş & Mary Lou O'Neill, Turkish Studies, 16, 1, 2015, pp. 138-141.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
- Turkish - Mother tongue
- Ottoman Turkish - Advanced
- English - (C2)
- Italian - (C1)
- German - (A2)
