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Milena B. Methodieva

Milena B. Methodieva is a scholar of Ottoman, Balkan, and Turkish history, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is Assistant Professor at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto, Canada. She received her PhD from Princeton, MA from Bilkent University, Turkey, and BA from the American University in Bulgaria. Her scholarship is concerned with the political, intellectual, and social transformations in the late Ottoman empire, its successors in the Balkans, and modern Turkey. She is interested in exploring history from the perspective of marginalized groups and showing their role in the historical process. Her work often looks at events in transnational context. Methodieva has an interest in the history of Islam, Muslims, and Muslim culture in the Balkans, and is the author of Between Empire and Nation: Muslim Reform in the Balkans (Stanford University Press, 2021). Her current research deals with migration to the late Ottoman Empire and Turkey.

ARTICLES BY Milena B. Methodieva