Fredrick Walter Lorenz
Fredrick Walter Lorenz specializes in the history of Africa and the Middle East. His dissertation, “An Empire of Frontiers: Between Migrant and State in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1835-1911," focuses on Ottoman imperialism, colonialism, and migration in North Africa and the Middle East.
Field of Study
Subfield
Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Ottoman Empire
East Africa and the Horn of Africa
Saharan and Mediterranean Trade
Mobility, Migration, and Refugee Studies
Transimperialism
Settler Colonialism
World History
Research
Publications
Peer-reviewed
Grants and Awards
(Selected)
- 2021 Graduate Student Dissertation Grant, Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES), UCLA.
- 2020 First Article Award for "‘The Second Egypt’: Cretan Refugees, Agricultural Development, and Frontier Expansion in Ottoman Cyrenaica, 1897-1904", The Center for European and Russian Studies, UCLA.
- 2020 Graduate Student Dissertation Grant, University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), UC Irvine.
- 2019 The Vangelis Kechriotis Memorial Travel Grant, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA).
- 2019 Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship, The Center for European and Russian Studies (CERS), UCLA.
- 2019 Mark Pinson Grant for Graduate Research on the Ottoman Balkans, Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS).
- 2018 Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship for Middle East North Africa Studies (MENA), US Department of Education.
- 2017 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program (GSRM) Fellowship, UCLA.
- 2017 Graduate Research Mentorship Program (GRM) Fellowship, UCLA.
- 2017 Center for European and Russian Studies (CERS) Conference Travel Grant, UCLA.
- 2017 Mark Pinson Grant for Graduate Research on the Ottoman Balkans, Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS).
- 2016 Mark Pinson Grant for Graduate Research on the Ottoman Balkans, Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS).
- 2016 Boğaziçi University Fellowship for Intensive Advanced Turkish at Boğaziçi University, American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT).
- 2016 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program (GSRM) Fellowship, UCLA.
Conference Presentations
(Selected)
2021 Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting: “Nomads, Refugees, and Empires: Dilemmatic Mobility along Tripoli-Tunisia Border, 1881-1893” (Montreal, Canada)
2020 Fifteenth Annual American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages (AATT): “Whose Sovereignty? Local Responses to Turkish educational campaigns in Ottoman Libya during the Tanzimat period, 1839-1876” (Washington DC, USA)
2019 Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting: “Migrants, Militias, and Martinis: Generative Forces of Local Security in the late Ottoman Balkans” (New Orleans, LA USA)
2019 California Scholars of the Middle East and North Africa Workshop (CaliMENA): “Mobilizing Against Exile: Migrant Strategies of Repatriation to the Balkans, 1878-1885” (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
2019 Western Social Science Association Annual Conference: “The Challenges to Returning Home: Muslim Migrants between Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire following the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877-1878” (San Diego, CA, USA)
2017 Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting: “Relocation, Resettlement, and Conscription: Refugee Policies during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.” (Washington DC, USA)
Advisors
James Gelvin (Chair),
Isa Blumi (Stockholm University)
Degrees
Ph.D., History, UCLA, 2022
M.A., History, Indiana University, 2009
M.A., Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University, 2009
B.A., Middle Eastern Studies, summa cum laude, Georgia State University, 2007