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Yiğit Akın is Associate Professor and Carter V. Findley Chair of Ottoman and Turkish History at Ohio State University. A specialist in modern Middle East history, his research examines the social and cultural history of the late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey, particularly during World War I and its aftermath.
His research explores the catastrophic impact of war on Ottoman society, the development of nationalism, social movements, and state-society relations during periods of imperial collapse and national formation. Current projects include a global history of post-WWI Ottoman Empire and the social history of death in Ottoman/Turkish contexts.
Akın received the Weiss Presidential Award for Undergraduate Teaching at Tulane University and serves as co-editor for the Ottoman Empire/Middle East section of '1914-1918-online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War'. His book 'When the War Came Home' won both the Tomlinson Book Prize and Choice Outstanding Academic Title.
