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İpek K. Yosmaoğlu is the Crown Professor of Middle East Studies in the Department of History at Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University (2005) and previously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on nationalism, political violence, and the intersection of war and empire in Ottoman and early Republican Turkey. Affiliated programs include the Middle Eastern and North African Studies program, the Crown Center for Jewish and Israeli Studies, and directs the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program.
Her groundbreaking work Blood Ties: Religion, Violence, and the Politics of Nationhood in Ottoman Macedonia (2014) examines how violence shaped national identities in the Balkans. Current research explores Turkish nationhood through demographic shifts in Thrace. She has held prestigious fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Lise Meitner Foundation in Austria, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Education: B.Sc. Economics (Bilkent University, 1993); M.A./Ph.D. Near Eastern Studies (Princeton University, 1997/2005)
- Teaching: Courses include Ottoman Empire surveys, political violence seminars, and undergraduate research on early Republican Turkey
- Grants: Over $500,000 in research funding from NEH, Mellon Foundation, and Turkish Studies programs
Her scholarship bridges Ottoman studies with modern Middle Eastern history, emphasizing how state violence and nationalist ideologies transform societies. Recent articles analyze gendarme practices in Macedonia, Armenian revolutionary strategies, and post-Ottoman nation-building processes.
