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Erdem Ilter

Visiting Scholar
Department:
Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Erdem Ilter is a historian of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on demography, sovereignty, colonialism, state formation, borderlands, and minority politics in the late Ottoman Empire and its successor states. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University and a member of the Ottoman Demographic, Social, and Family History (ODSFH) Research Group at Binghamton University’s Center for Middle East and North Africa Studies.

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Research Interests

Field of Interest
Ottoman and Middle Eastern history
Islamic governance and sovereignty
Demography and population politics
Colonialism and state formation
Borderlands
Sectarianism
Minority politics