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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents
Pınar Şenışık
Associate Professor, Department of International Relations at Doğuş University, Turkey
Pınar Şenışık earned her Ph.D at Boğaziçi University in 2007. She is currently Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations at Doğuş University. She is interested in the political, social, and cultural history of the late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey, with a particular focus on Ottoman Crete, nationalism, inter-communal relations, migration, occupied Istanbul, and history of emotions. Her first book, The Transformation of Ottoman Crete: Revolts, Politics, and Identity in the Late Nineteenth Century (I.B. Tauris, 2011, Turkish edition, Kitap Yayınevi, 2014) examines the Cretan revolts of 1896 and 1897 and analyzes the political and ideological transformation of Ottoman Crete. Her second book, Migration and Material World of the Cretan Muslims (The Isis Press, 2018) focuses on the lost material world of the Muslims who were forced to leave Rethymno/Crete for Turkey under the stipulations of the Lausanne Treaty. She published articles in various journals, including Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Middle Eastern Studies,Nationalities Papers, and Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. Dr. Şenışık’s research has received support in the past from American Research Institute in Turkey, Boğaziçi University Foundation, and Aristotle University, School of Modern Greek Language.
She is currently working on a third book about the personal experiences and material conditions of the Muslim refugees coming from various parts of Greece within the framework of the Turco-Greek population exchange and aims to develop a Digital Humanities project on this subject.
Contact: Liz Flanagan