معرفی
Zozan Pehlivan is a Professor of History at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, specializing in environmental history, the Ottoman Empire, and Ottoman Kurdistan. Their work focuses on the intersections of climate change, violence, pastoral nomadism, and comparative empires. They hold affiliations with the Asian & Middle Eastern Studies department and are a Mellon Fellow at the Newberry Library (2023-2024).
- Education:
- Ph.D. in History, Queen’s University (2016)
- M.A. in History, Sabancı University (2008)
- B.A. in History, Istanbul Bilgi University (2006)
Research interests include the environmental roots of ethnoreligious conflict, imperial responses to ecological stress, and forced sedentarization of herding communities. Their first monograph (2024) examines climate-driven tensions between Kurdish pastoralists and Armenian peasants in the late Ottoman era. Current projects include a comparative study of American and Ottoman approaches to grassland control (1830–1930).
Awards include the Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Award and the Ömer Lütfi Barkan Article Prize (2020). They collaborate on a $2.5M SSHRC grant investigating environmental crises in the Indian Ocean World.
Grants and Fellowships: McKnight Land-Grant Professor (2021–2023), Mellon Fellowship (2023–2024). Advising: No listed advisees, but actively involved in collaborative research networks.
Labs/Teams: Part of the interdisciplinary team at the Newberry Library’s environmental history initiative and the SSHRC-funded Indian Ocean World project.
