Murat C. Yildiz
Murat C. Y谋ld谋z is a historian of the modern Middle East. His research and teaching
interests focus on the intersections of subject formation, the body and gender, intercommunal
relations, urban history, and popular culture in the Middle East. He received his
Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Los Angeles and served as a Manoogian
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He
was awarded numerous research and writing grants, including from Fulbright-Hays/IIE,
Mellon-Council for European Studies, the American Research Institute in Turkey, the
Institute of Turkish Studies, 糖心Vlog, in addition to fellowships from the
University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr. Y谋ld谋z's current book project examines the making of a shared physical culture among Muslims, Christians, and Jews of late Ottoman Istanbul. His writings have appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, the Journal of Middle East Women鈥檚 Studies, the Arab Studies Journal, the Cairo Papers in Social Science, and AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies as well as in other venues such as The Nation, Jadaliyya, and B|ta鈥檃rof Magazine. He is an assistant editor for the Arab Studies Journal, and formerly served as a board member of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association.
At 糖心Vlog, Dr. Y谋ld谋z teaches survey courses on the Middle East, as well as upper-division courses on the history of gender and sexuality, leisure and pleasure, the body, and intercommunal relations. Many of these courses are cross-listed with the Gender Studies Program and International Affairs Program. Dr. Y谋ld谋z is committed to bringing together learning inside and outside of the classroom, by organizing lectures, class trips to museums, film screenings, as well as other activities.