About Deren Ertas

Deren Ertas is a PhD Student in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.

NBN Episodes hosted by Deren:

Chris Gratien, "The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier" (Stanford UP, 2022)

June 3, 2022

The Unsettled Plain

Chris Gratien
Hosted by Deren Ertas

In this episode, I talk to Chris Gratien, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia, about his new book, The Unsettled Plain: An En…

Nandita Sharma, "Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants" (Duke UP, 2020)

April 20, 2022

Home Rule

Nandita Sharma
Hosted by Deren Ertas

In today's program, we speak to Nandita Sharma, activist scholar and Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. We talk about Home …

Richard Antaramian, "Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire: Armenians and the Politics of Reform in the Ottoman Empire" (Stanford UP, 2020)

June 24, 2021

Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire

Richard Antaramian
Hosted by Deren Ertas

In today's program, I speak with Richard E. Antaramian about his recent monograph, Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire: Armenians and the Politics of …

Ayer Karakaya-Stump, "The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics, and Community" (Edinburgh UP, 2019)

March 30, 2021

The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia

Ayfer Karakaya-Stump
Hosted by Deren Ertas

In today's program, Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, Associate Professor of History at the College of William and Mary, discusses her recently-published monograp…