Pam Sezgin

Pam Sezgin, Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Georgia, specializes in the history and cultures of the late Ottoman Empire, focusing on Sephardic Jewish and Greek communities in Istanbul. Her expertise extends to museum studies, transcultural memory, and digital historiography through the lens of Foucault's heterotopia.

• Education: Ph.D. in Anthropology from Indiana University - Bloomington (1991), Post-Doctoral Studies in World History at Georgia State University (2003)

Her research explores legal reforms in the late Ottoman Empire, Ottomanism as political ideology, and the use of expressive culture (music, food, art) for historical analysis. She contributes to digital methods in historical research and heritage studies.

Key publication trends include analyzing Ottoman-Balkan interactions during the Balkan Wars (2013), reconstructing ethnobotanical heritage (2012), and documenting endangered cultural legacies in post-Ottoman cities (2010). Her work spans interdisciplinary topics like heterotopia theory (2009) and encyclopedia contributions on Sephardic communities (2010-2013).

Professor Sezgin serves on the Green Lines Institute's committees for historic preservation and participates in international Turkish Studies conferences. She teaches foundational courses in world history and anthropology while advancing scholarly discourse on Mediterranean cultural intersections.