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Mehmet Doğar is a Bye-Fellow at Homerton College and a Postgraduate Researcher at the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, University of Cambridge. He has recently completed his PhD at the Faculty of History, where his research focused on socio-economic relations between Turkey and Italy in the interwar period under the supervision of Dr. Kate Fleet.
Dr. Doğar completed his undergraduate and Master's studies at the Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, where he wrote his Master's thesis on Turkish-Italian diplomatic relations in 1932-1939. He served as a teaching assistant for undergraduate courses on world history from September 2019 to June 2020.
His research interests lie in the socio-economic and diplomatic history of the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic. He specializes in Turkey's relations with Europe in the interwar period, particularly with Italy and Britain. Additional areas of interest include Italian colonialism in the early twentieth century and the history of the interwar Mediterranean. His work often examines the nuanced relationships between Turkey and European powers, revealing complex diplomatic and economic interactions beyond simple narratives of threat or cooperation.
Dr. Doğar's publications demonstrate a consistent focus on Turkish foreign policy and international relations during the interwar period, with particular attention to economic networks, propaganda, and cultural exchanges between Turkey and Italy.
His notable awards include:
- Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship (funding his PhD research)
Dr. Doğar has supervised numerous undergraduate students at Homerton and other Cambridge colleges, teaching nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and global history. He delivers a lecture titled 'The Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean' as part of Part II Paper 24: Rethinking Europe from the Mediterranean Shores, 1796-1914. His teaching expertise spans Modern Europe (1789-1914), The Twentieth-Century World, and Europe's Modern Age of Violence (1914-1949), with supervision available on Ottoman Empire history, modern Turkey, Fascist Italy, and twentieth-century Middle East history.
Dr. Doğar actively participates in academic collaborations including the CALM – Cambridge-LMU PhD Training Collaboration in the Contemporary History of Global Europe, presenting at multiple international conferences on topics ranging from Turkish-Italian economic relations to the role of cartoons as historical sources in early Republican Turkey.
