K Herman Adney
Kaleb Herman Adney is a PhD candidate whose dissertation research revolves around the political economy of late Ottoman Macedonia and Thrace and the tobacco industry in particular. He is also interested in the cultural and economic history of the eastern Mediterranean more generally and the legal and financial institutions used by commercial networks in their transactions. In terms of the tobacco trade, he argues that interactions between bureaucracy, legislation, and local political administration on the one hand and commercial networks, economic privileges, and credit markets on the other were central to economic development (uneven as it was). Political economy in the age of the market, therefore, shaped both illicit trade through smuggling networks and violent activism in the form of nationalist activism as much as it did legal commerce and officially sanctioned social organizations.
Field of Study
Subfield
Near East
Conference Presentations
“Social Welfare and Paternal Politics: Charitable Societies in Argentina's Syrian-Lebanese Diaspora (c.1908-1928)” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) of North America in Washington D.C.: October 10-13, 2020
“Mobilizing Hatred at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century: Countryside Violence and the Macedonian Tobacco Trade” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) of North America in New Orleans, Louisiana: November 14-17, 2019
“Financial Violence and Categories of Lawlessness: The Regional Networks of Kāllistos Theofilidis in Ottoman Kavala” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) of North America in San Antonio, Texas: November 15-18, 2018
Advisors
James Gelvin, Sarah Stein, Sebouh Aslanian, Christine Philliou, Kent Schull
Degrees
University of California, Los Angeles (2014 — 2016): MA in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Arabic and Ottoman Turkish (Advisor: Michael Cooperson)
University of California, Los Angeles (2012-2014): BA in History (Departmental Highest Honors); BA in Arabic (Cum Laude)