“Forging Empire: Mining, State Making and Ottoman Extractive Colonialism in Kurdistan,” Nilay Özok-Gündoğan, Florida State University

This event is part of the Department of History Lecture Series in Ottoman and Turkish History. 

Nilay Özok-Gündoğan is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Florida State University. She is the author of The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy, and Privilege (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) -winner of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association Book Prize. Özok-Gündoğan is currently working on her second book project, which examines mineral extraction and colonialism in eighteenth-century Ottoman Kurdistan.