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Hazal Özdemir

Birkbeck, University of London (MA), Bogazici University (BA)

Biography

Hazal Özdemir is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History. She is currently writing her dissertation which explores Armenian circular mobility between the Ottoman Empire and the United States between 1896-1908. Her project contributes to the existing literature on Ottoman Armenian history and studies on Ottoman nationality by focusing on the methods devised to regulate the mobility of undesirable subjects such as denaturalization, bureaucratic forms of violence, and, photo registers. She participates in the interdisciplinary Middle East and North African Studies (MENA) Cluster. Her dissertation project was funded by institutions such as the American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT), The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Society of Armenian Studies (SAS), the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) and the Knights of Vartan Fund for Armenian Studies Research, and the SALT Research Institute in Turkey. Before coming to Northwestern, Hazal received a BA in History from Boğaziçi University, Turkey, and an MA in History of Art with Photography from Birkbeck, University of London.