Current Students

History

Berk Emek

PhD in History

Research Interest: Nationalization and homogenization politics in interwar Romania and Türkiye: The ethnicity question in administration

Koç University International Relations B.A

Central European University Political Science M.A

Email: bemek16@ku.edu.tr

Avni K. Değirmenci

PhD in History

Research Interest: Nationalism and Nation Building in the Former Yugoslavia

CUNY Hunter College, History and Adolescent Education, B.A.

CUNY Queens College, History, M.A.

Email: adegirmenci89@hotmail.com

Efe Erünal

PhD in History

Research Interest: Economic and Demographic Geography, Life and Occupational Cycles, and Intergenerational Wealth and Status transfer in the mid-nineteenth century Ottoman Empire

Koç University, History, Direct PhD

Istanbul Bilgi University, History, B.A.

Email: eerunal17@ku.edu.tr

Uygar Karaca

PhD in History

Research Interest: Population, Urbanization and Structural Change in Ottoman Empire/Türkiye and Bulgaria in Comparative Perspective, 1850-1950

Istanbul Bilgi University - History, M.A

Bilgi Bogazici University - Economics, M.A

Bogazici University-Economics, B.A.

Email: ukaraca16@ku.edu.tr

Nikola Rakovski

PhD in History

Research Interest: 19th Century Balkans: Formations of Nations and Nation-States, Institution Building, Political Representation and Popular Protest

Sofia University, Regional Studies: Southeastern Europe, MA

Sofia University, History and Geopolitics of the Balkans, BA

Email: nikola.rakovski@gmail.com

Fulya Özturan

PhD in History

Research Interest: History of the Late Ottoman Empire, Migration
PhD Koç University, History

MA Bilkent University, History

BA Hacettepe University, American Culture and Literature

Pedagogical Formation Training Certificate

Hacettepe University, Faculty of Education

Email: fozturan19@ku.edu.tr

Zainab HajHasan

PhD in History

Research Interest: Ottoman Socio-Economic History, Ottoman Mediterranean, 18th Century. (Focusing on the social and economic changes in the Ottoman Mediterranean cities)

List of Institutions attended: Istanbul Medeniyet University (MA in International Ottoman Studies), DİLMAR Kocaeli University (Turkish Language Acquisition) University of Jordan (BA in Languages and Literature), Instituto Cervantes (Spanish Language acquisition)

Cansu Çakır

PhD in History

Research Interests: Russian History, Soviet History, The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, World War I, Russian Revolution

List of Last Institutions Attended: Bilkent University, International Relations, MA

Middle East Technical University, International Relations, Bs.c.

E-mail: ccakir20@ku.edu.tr