Ida Beckett

Ida Beckett is currently a Master's student at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. She is interested in the history of early modern Istanbul and hopes to study the history of perceived and proscribed deviance and unbecoming behavior, from coffee drinking and tobacco smoking to hashish use and prostitution. Previous research has focused on the rise of the Kadızadeli movement in the Ottoman Empire and its relation to the policing of public space, particularly coffeehouses, in the seventeenth century. Ida graduated with a BA in History from Wellesley College.