Michael Ferguson is a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. In 2014, he completed PhD dissertation at McGill University entitled “The African Presence in Izmir in the Late Ottoman Period and Beyond.” His work focuses broadly on minorities, identity, and constructions of race in the late Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. His publications include: "Enslaved and Emancipated Africans on Crete," in Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno, eds., Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean (The American University in Cairo Press, 2010); “White Turks, Black Turks, and Negroes: the Politics of Polarization” in Umut Özkırımlı and Spyros Sofos, eds., Occupy Gezi: The Making of a Protest Movement, (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014); and “Abolitionism and the African Slave Trade in the Ottoman Empire (1857-1922)” in Gwyn Campbell and Alessandro Stanziani, eds., Human Rights in Afro-Eurasia from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, Vol.1, The Longue Durée of Bondage in Afro-Eurasia, 1600-1900, (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016). [Forthcoming]. His website can be found here.
