Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, a PhD student in the Department of History and affiliated with the Abbasi Program, was among 65 fellows selected for the prestigious 2017 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Completion Fellows from a pool of more than 1,000 applicants. Fellows are awarded a $30,000 stipend and up to $8,000 in research funds and university fees. The financial support is designed to assist fellows in their final year of dissertation writing.
Hamed-Troyansky, a PhD candidate in modern Middle Eastern history, examines refugee migration and resettlement in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions prior to World War I. His dissertation focuses on Muslim refugees from Russia’s North Caucasus region who resettled throughout the Ottoman Empire, from Kosovo and Anatolia to Syria and Iraq.
Hamed-Troyansky has conducted archival research across the Middle East and Eastern Europe, including in Turkey, Jordan, Bulgaria and Russia. He earned his undergraduate degree in Arabic and international relations from the University of St. Andrews and his master’s degree in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
The American Council of Learned Societies, a private, nonprofit federation of 74 national scholarly organizations, is the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and related social sciences. In 2017, ACLS will award more than $20 million to more than 300 scholars across a variety of humanistic disciplines.