July 9, 2020
Tuna Basibek Awarded International Research Fellowship
Ph.D. Candidate Tuna Basibek has been awarded an International Research Fellowship from the UW Graduate School for his dissertation project Empire, Mobility and Boundary-Making in Northeastern Anatolia: The Circassian Refugees in Russian-Ottoman Borderland, 1860-1890. Mr. Basibek will use the 3-month fellowship to conduct research in Turkey in Spring 2021.
Solmaz Shakerifard Awarded International Research Fellowship
Solmaz Shakerifard has been awarded an International Research Fellowship from the UW Graduate School for her dissertation project Aural-Aesthetics of Modernity: Iranian Classical Music and its Relationship with the ‘West’. Ms. Shakerifard will use the 3-month fellowship to conduct research in Iran in Spring 2021.
Roman Pomeshchikov Awarded International Research Fellowship
Ph.D. Candidate Roman Pomeshchikov has been awarded an International Research Fellowship from the UW Graduate School for his dissertation project The politics of digital transformation and bureaucratic change in Turkey and Uzbekistan. Mr. Pomeshchikov will use the 3-month fellowship to conduct research in Uzbekistan in Spring or Summer 2021.
July 8, 2020
Michael Sims Published in Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World
Ph.D. Candidate Michael Sims has published an article entitled Claiming the Ezidis (Yezidis): Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Assyrian, Kurdish and Arab sources on Ezidi religious and ethnic identity in the Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World. Focusing on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this article explores the ways in which various religious and historical aspects…