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About Deren Ertas

Deren Ertas is a PhD Student in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.
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NBN Episodes hosted by Deren:

Middle Eastern Studies June 3, 2022

The Unsettled Plain

An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier

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 Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier (Stanford University Press …
Sociology April 20, 2022

Home Rule

National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants

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 Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives …
Middle Eastern Studies June 24, 2021

Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire

Armenians and the Politics of Reform in the Ottoman 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 Reform in the Ottoman Empire (Stanford University Press, 2020).  …
Middle Eastern Studies March 30, 2021

The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia

Sufism, Politics and Community

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 monograph, The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics, and Community (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).  …