Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky | Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State

We will be joined by Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (UCSB), who will share a chapter from his new book Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State.

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky is an Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a historian of migration and displacement, specializing in the Ottoman and Russian empires. His first book, Empire of Refugees (Stanford University Press, 2024), examines the resettlement of about a million refugees from Russia in the Ottoman Middle East and Balkans. His articles have appeared in such publications as Past & Present, Comparative Studies in Society and History, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Slavic Review, and Kritika. 

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Hamed-Troyansky received his PhD in history from Stanford University in 2018 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University's Harriman Institute. In 2023–24, he is an external faculty fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center.