Mary Momdjian

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Mary Momdjian

Continuing Lecturer

Email: mmomdjia@g.ucla.edu

Office: 6248 Bunche Hall

Phone: (310) 206-2115

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Biography

I am an early modern and modern period social and economic historian of the Ottoman Empire. My current research focuses on the social and cultural history of the cosmopolitan Levantine merchant communities in the Ottoman Empire from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, with an emphasis on the impact they had as merchants, cultural ambassadors, and go-betweens, bridging the divide between the Ottoman Empire and Europe.

I am also working on a secondary project on the history of an iconic and historic landmark in the city of Aleppo that spanned a century (1911-2011) , and played a pivotal role in the modern history of Aleppo.

I teach a variety of undergraduate lecture and seminar classes (111B-111C) including a pro-seminar (187) and a Capstone seminar (191F), whose subjects range from economic, social, and urban history (cities in the Middle East,) to gender, diplomacy, and east-west relations.

Field of Study

Economic and social histories of the Ottoman Empire- Urban and gender studies

Publications

“Halabis and Foreigners in Aleppo’s Mediterranean Trade: The Role of the Halabi Merchants in Nineteenth Century Trade Networks,” in eds. Stefan Winter, Mafalda Ade, Aleppo and its Hinterland in the Ottoman Period (Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2019)

Degrees

2017- Ph.D. History, University of California, Los Angeles
2008- M.A. History, University of California, Los Angeles
2005- B.A. History, Art History (Minor, Magna Cum Laude), University of California, Los Angeles