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Nükhet Varlık

Principal Investigator, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University–Newark

https://sasn.rutgers.edu/nukhet-varlik Nükhet Varlık is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University–Newark. Her research focuses on disease, death, medicine, and public health in the Ottoman Empire. Her first book, Plague and


Zeynep Akçakaya

Project Manager, Postdoc Researcher

Zeynep Akçakaya is a historian of agriculture, economy, and environment in the Ottoman Empire of the 19th Century. Her scholarly focus includes global environmental history, Ottoman agricultural history, and rural


Akarsu Melike Demirkol

Researcher & M.A. Candidate (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul)

Akarsu Melike Demirkol is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Classical Ottoman Literature at Boğaziçi University. She is interested in micro-environments of historical cities and how they’re created – as


Tunahan Durmaz

Ph.D. Candidate & Researcher (EUI, Florence)

Tunahan Durmaz is a Ph.D. candidate in Department of History at European University Institute, Florence. Prior to his doctoral studies, he earned his B.A. in History with a minor in


Scott Stohlman

Project Assistant & M.A. Candidate (Rutgers University-Newark)

Scott Stohlman is currently completing his masters degree at Rutgers University-Newark in the field of global history. Prior to his graduate studies, he completed his B.A. in history at Salisbury


Batughan Tatar

Project Assistant & M.A. Candidate (Rutgers University-Newark)

Batuğhan Tatar holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ). He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in the Federated Department of History at Rutgers University-Newark.