When:
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM CT
Where: Harris Hall, 108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Alicen Collum
Group: Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Category: Academic
Join KMTS, MENA, SHC and speaker Dr. Chris Gratien, University of Virginia, for a talk titled "An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier" on April 16, 2025 from 12:30- 2:00PM in Harris Hall, Room 108. Lunch will be served!
Chris Gratien is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History at University of Virginia, where he offers courses on global environmental history and the modern Middle East. His first book, The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier, was selected for the Nikki Keddie Book award by the Middle East Studies Association. He is also co-creator of the Ottoman History Podcast, which since 2011 has published over five hundred interviews with scholars of the Ottoman Empire, the modern Middle East, and the Islamic world.