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I am a historian of the Ottoman Empire and its successor states in Turkey, Greece, and Egypt with broader interests in the Middle East and North Africa. My dissertation deals with the convergence of the Ottoman tobacco trade (so-called Oriental tobacco) and the Eastern Crisis in the Ottoman Empire. The political economy of Ottoman tobacco contributed to a deepening of sectarian and nationalist tensions within the empire. In turn a moral economy critique of the Ottoman Public Debt Administration and the Ottoman State under Abdülhamid II fed into the emergence of new national economy projects of Greece, Bulgaria, and Turkey. This in turn gave impetus to demographic engineering projects and the "unmixing" of peoples in the post-Ottoman Balkans.
Broader research interests include trade and commercial practices in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman domains, legal institutions in the Ottoman Empire, the international commercial networks of Greek communities (Argentina, Palestine, the Sudan, Ethiopia, and Japan for example), and the history of Greek-Turkish relations.
Ongoing and developing research projects include a second book project that traces the contested history of resources and land between Egypt, Turkey, and Greece on the island of Thassos in the Aegean Sea during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In-progress articles also include a research article on the seed-oil industry in Turkey during the 1960s; an article on a Greek-language civilizational discourse on Ethiopia under Ras Tafari (Haile Selassie); and an article on the insurance policies of Assicurazioni Generali in the Aegean Sea during the early twentieth century.
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