MGSA Survey of Graduate Students

Ipek K. Yosmaoglu.

I. Degrees

          Ph.D 2005 Princeton University, Near Eastern Studies

Dissertation: “The Priest’s Robe and the Rebel’s Rifle: Communal Conflict and the Construction of National Identity in Ottoman Macedonia, 1878-1908”

          M.A. 1997, Princeton University, Program in Near Eastern Studies

          B.Sc. 1993, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey (Economics)

 

II. Areas of Specialization

Nationalism, national and ethnic identity

Macedonia

            History of the Ottoman Empire, modern Greece and South Eastern Europe

III. Principal Presentations and Publications (Greek words are given in transliteration)

“Counting Bodies, Shaping Souls: The “1903 Census” and National Identity in Ottoman Macedonia,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, v. 38 no. 1 (February 2006), forthcoming.

 

“Chasing the Printed Word: Press Censorship in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1913,” Turkish Studies Association Journal, v. 27, no. 1 (2003), forthcoming.

“Ethnographical Maps and the Ethne of Macedonia, 1842-1906” in David Shankland, ed., The Life and Times of F.W. Hasluck (1878-1920), Istanbul: Isis Press, December 2004.

“Ottoman Empire,” [entry on press censorship in the Ottoman Empire,] International Encyclopedia of Censorship, Derek Jones, ed., London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2002.

 

“The Invention of Macedonia: From Ottoman heartland to National Frontier,” paper presented at the Borderlands Interdisciplinary Project Workshop, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 2005.

 

“Imagined Orthodoxies: Christian Peasants and National Identity in Macedonia,” paper presented at the Annual ASEN Conference Nation and Empire, London School of Economics, April 2005.

 

“Guns and Rosaries: Religion, Brigandage and National Identity in Ottoman Macedonia, 1900-1912,” paper presented at the Conference Nationalism, Society and Culture in Post-Ottoman South-eastern Europe, St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford, May 2004.

 

“Maps and Census: Construction of National Identity in Macedonia, 1870-1906,” paper presented at Princeton University, Hellenic Studies Workshop Series, May 2003.

 

 “The Struggle for Macedonia: Nationalist Uprising or Civil War?” paper presented at the American Historical Association Meeting, Chicago, January 2003.

 

“Whose Imagined Community? Ethnographical Maps and the Ethne of Macedonia,” paper presented at the Conference “Anthropology, Archaeology and Heritage in the Balkans and Anatolia or the Life and Times of F.W. Hasluck (1878-1920),” Grogynog, University of Wales, November 2001.

 

“Ethnographical Maps of South Eastern Europe, 1842-1906,” public lecture delivered at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens, May 2001.

 

 

 

IV. Office Address

Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures

Columbia University

602 Kent Hall MC 3928

1140 Amsterdam Avenue

New York NY 10027

 

Office Telephone (F)=Fax

Electronic Address

[email protected]

V. Home Address

(no information submitted)

 

Home Telephone (F)=Fax

(no information submitted)

 

VI. Dissertation/Thesis working title and topic

See above

VII. Comments and Additional Information

Last revised September 14, 2005

 

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