SPOHP’s OGUS project is cohosting a one-day virtual conference on September 10 titled, Assessing the Ethnic Groups of the Late Ottoman Empire through a Decolonial Lens 1900 -1922. The link for the event can be found here.
Oregon, 2018
This past May I visited the Pacific Northwest to conduct interviews with descendants of immigrants from the former Ottoman Empire. During the next few weeks and months, I will share some of my findings. I would like to begin by introducing a new addition to the collection of documents which are a part of the […]
Pennsylvania, 2023
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Tracing Immigration from the Late Ottoman Empire to the US.
Social network analysis provides methods for visualizing social networks that allow for a deeper understanding of relationships between individuals and groups. This visualization represents the immigration patterns of 456 Greek and Ottoman Greek immigrants who immigrated to the US from the former Ottoman Empire between 1900 – 1924. This data set was collected […]
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Return to Smyrna: Transnationalism and Citizenship in a Time of Social Collapse
On September 13, 1922, a great fire erupted in the Armenian neighborhood of the city of Smyrna — modern Izmir — Turkey.[1] The city’s inhabitants fled their homes in a panic and made their way to the city’s quay. There they awaited passage out of the city without any guarantee of its arrival. The stories […]
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