SPOHP alum Dr. Jessica Taylor presents newest book

Taylor will present on her newest book, Plain Paths and Dividing Lines: Navigating Native Land and Water in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake Bay, on Tuesday, March 5th, at 6pm at the Matheson History Museum! We invite the public to join us for this free event. Dr. Taylor’s work explores escape attempts of indentured servants and enslaved people in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake.

SPOHP’s Spring Open House

Join SPOHP for our spring 2024 open house “meet and greet” on Tuesday, January 30th, from 3-5pm in the O’Neill Reading Room on the second floor of Pugh Hall!

California, 2017

In 1904 immigrants from the island of Marmara established the first mutual aid organization from the Ottoman Empire in the United States. It was established in Los Angeles, California and was named The Marmarinon Benevolent Society of Afthoni. It was officially incorporated in 1909. According to Dr. Jim Dimitriou, “There was a big Marmarinon organization […]

Connecticut, 2017

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Florida, 2016 – present

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Massachusetts, 2015, 2017

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Fieldwork Announcement – eastern Pennsylvania May 10 – 19, 2023

Dr. Yiorgo Topalidis will visit communities in eastern Pennsylvania between 10 – 19, 2023 to conduct interviews with descendant of migrants from Asia Minor, eastern Thrace or the islands of Imbros, Tenedos or those in the Sea of Marmara please contact us to schedule an interview. Interview Scheduling

Fieldwork Announcement – Florida

If you are located in Florida and you are a descendant of migrants from Asia Minor, eastern Thrace or the islands of Imbros, Tenedos or those in the Sea of Marmara please contact us to schedule an interview. Interview Scheduling

Michigan, 2017

From left to right, these three refugee children from Buca (pronounced Bu-ja), Turkey, a town southeast of Smyrna (modern Izmir), are Irene Sklavou, Efstratia Hatziathanasiou, and Emanuel Sklavos, their brother Thanasis is not present. In an interview, her daughter Anna asked Irene to tell her story, to which Irene replied, “I will tell you my […]

Fieldwork Texas, May 2022

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the friends we made during our visit to Texas. In fourteen days, we traveled 1023 miles, visited four cities, and had the honor of interviewing 26 sets of descendants of migrants from the late Ottoman Empire who donated a total of 263 artifacts to […]

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