Middle East

Deren Ertas is a PhD Candidate in the joint History and Middle Eastern Studies program at Harvard University. She is currently completing her dissertation entitled “Geos and Empire: Mining, Labor, and Environment in the Ottoman Empire, 1720s-1820s.” Her...

Shaharyar Zia works on late-medieval and early modern Islamic intellectual history. He is interested in the scholarly traditions of Firangī Maḥall, Shāh Walī Allāh, Khayrābādīs and various Sufi groups in South Asia. In trying to situate and analyze these...

• Regions: Eastern Mediterranean; Egypt; Middle East; Ottoman Empire
• Time periods: 14th and 15th centuries
• Themes: History of Art and Architecture; History of the Book; History of Education; History of Religion; Intellectual History; Philosophy

• Regions: Eastern Mediterranean; Eurasia; Middle East; Ottoman Empire
• Time Periods: 14th to 19th centuries
• Themes: Architectural History; Classical Reception; Colonialism; Environmental Humanities; History of Art and Architecture; History of the...

• Regions: Europe; Mediterranean; Middle East
• Times: 14th to 19th centuries
• Themes: Jewish Art & Visual Culture; Jewish History; History of the Book; History of Art and Architecture

Deborah B. Thompson is a PhD student studying Jewish History in...

• Regions: Atlantic World; Britain; Eastern Mediterranean; Egypt; England; Eurasia; Europe; Mediterranean; Middle East; Ottoman Empire
• Times: 17th to 18th centuries
• Themes: Economic History; History of Empire; Political History

Ellen Nye is an...

• Region: Europe; Middle East; Ottoman Empire
• Time: 16th Century; 17th Century; 18th Century
• Theme: Social History; History of Religion; Ottoman Literature; Poetry and Poetics

Gayane Ayvazyan entered the Joint PhD Program in History and Middle Eastern Studies in 2021. At Harvard, her aim is to analyze and explain the transformations of the interconnected networks and organization of Armenians within the Ottoman Empire, Safavid...

Region: Middle East
Time: 15th Century; 16th Century; 17th Century
Theme: History of Art and Architecture; Poetry and Poetics

Sarah Molina researches late medieval and early modern Islamic art objects, theories of ornament, and the technical study of...