The history of the Kurds and Kurdistan has been a marginalized field within Ottoman and Middle Eastern historiography. For generations, historians in the Middle East and Euro-American world have excluded Kurdistan as a spatial entity from their foundational arg..
Nilay Özok Gündoğan
Nilay Özok-Gündoğan is an Associate Professor of Ottoman and Middle East history at Florida State University. She earned her PhD from Binghamton University. Her research primarily focuses on topics such as modern state-building, elite formation, property regimes, and intercommunal conflict and coexistence within the Ottoman Empire. Her work has been published in journals including the Journal of Social History, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, New Perspectives on Turkey, as well as various edited volumes. Additionally, she is a regular contributor to Jadaliyya, where she writes op-eds on Kurdish politics and history and also serves as the book review editor for the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association.