Currect Projects & Research

I am currently working on the joint process of internationalization and Islamization of the North Caucasus as a borderland between the Ottoman Empire, the Tsardom of Muscovy (later the Russian Empire), and Safavid/Afsharid Iran from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. After this, the second phase of my research project will aim to elucidate the forced migrations of North Caucasian peoples by the Russian Empire and their settlement in the Middle East by the Ottoman authorities—specifically in Syria between 1853 and 1877—based on Ottoman, Russian, and Arabic primary sources.