Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky is Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a historian of migration in the Middle East, Russia, and Eastern Europe, and author of Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024). His current research focuses on Muslim diasporas, nation-making, ethnic cleansing, and international law.
SHC Project
Global Hijra: Muslim Refugee Migration since 1850
Global Hijra is a transnational history of Muslim displacement, which explores the evolution of the idea of hijra in modern history. Hijra is an Arabic-language term for Muslim emigration or migration to preserve one’s faith. Through various interpretations of hijra, the project examines how ethnic cleansing and refugee migration reshaped the modern Middle East, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and South Asia.
Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State. Stanford University Press, 2024.
“Ottoman and Egyptian Quarantines and European Debates on Plague in the 1830s–1840s.” Past & Present 253 (2021): 235–70.
“Becoming Armenian: Religious Conversions in the Late Imperial South Caucasus.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 63, no. 1 (2021): 242–72.
“Circassian Refugees and the Making of Amman, 1878–1914.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 49, no. 4 (2017): 605–23.