Emine Evered

Emine Evered is an Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University, specializing in modern Middle Eastern history with a focus on the late Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona (2005). Her research bridges public health, intoxicants, science/medicine, cultural studies, and gender politics. Notable works include Empire and Education Under the Ottomans (2012) and the forthcoming Prohibition in Turkey (2024).

Her research examines topics such as tuberculosis, alcohol prohibition, syphilis, and prostitution regulation in early Republican Turkey, analyzing how public health policies intertwined with identity formation, nationalism, and state-building. She frequently collaborates with her spouse K. T. Evered on interdisciplinary projects, producing over 30 peer-reviewed publications since 2005. Her work has been recognized through reprints in global health collections and designation as 'Editors’ Choice' in International Journal of Drug Policy (2016).

Evered’s scholarship spans transnational non-state actors, gendered health discourses, and the spatial politics of disease control. Her current projects explore the intersection of medical geography with socio-political change in Turkey. She maintains active academic profiles on ResearchGate and ORCID, and her teaching focuses on Ottoman and modern Middle Eastern history.