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Karen M. Kern is an Associate Professor of History at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY). Her work spans political, social, and cultural history of the Middle East from 600 CE to the present, with a focus on nationalism, gender in Islam, and imperial history.
- Education: B.S. from Skidmore College (1986), MA and M.Phil. from Columbia University (1990-1991), Ph.D. from Columbia University (1999).
Her research delves into the social and legal history of the late Ottoman Empire, Ottoman law and legal culture, comparative citizenship, national identity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and borderlands in the modern Middle East. She authored Imperial Citizenship (2011), a monograph on marriage and citizenship in Ottoman Iraq.
Recent publications analyze intersections of religion and modernity in the Ottoman Empire, provincial governance dynamics, and interfaith encounters. Themes include legal systems, cultural identity, and historical sociology of imperial frontiers.
- Scientific Awards:
- Fulbright-Hays Fellowship
- Fulbright IIE Fellowship
- Institute for Turkish Studies Fellowship
- Mellon and FLAS Fellowships
- Fulbright Senior Researcher Fellowship
- J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
- U.S. Department of State Certificate of Recognition
- City of New York 'Salute to Scholars' Certificate
- PSC-CUNY Research Awards
- Presidential Travel Awards
- CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publications Program
- George N Shuster Faculty Award
She has received multiple grants and awards, including the CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publications Program and the George N Shuster Faculty Award, supporting her research on Ottoman legal and social history.
