Thesiss

While a vast range of works have been written on European identity from historical, cultural, political, sociological, and economic points of view, I am attempting to turn the discourse around and investigate the complex notion of European identity that forms the basis of person…

This project examines the role of plantations in modernist fiction. The plantation as a global space and site of exchange represents the need to reconceptualize definitions of modernity by problematizing peripheral spaces rather than viewing them as archaic colonial forms. Rathe…

This dissertation argues for the historical agency of the North Anatolian city of Amasya through an analysis of the social and political history of Islamic mysticism in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Ottoman Empire. The story of the transmission of the Halvetiye Sufi orde…