Empire of Refugees is a transimperial history of migration that reveals the origins of organized refugee resettlement in the Middle East. It explores how the Ottoman government reshaped the empire through refugee migration.
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky is a historian of global migration and forced displacement and Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research examines Muslim refugee migration and its role in shaping the modern world. He is the author of Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024). His articles appeared in Past & Present, Comparative Studies in Society and History, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Slavic Review, and Kritika. He received a PhD in History from Stanford University and served as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University.