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Metin Atmaca

M.A.

Academic Profile

I have studied political science at Ankara Univesity. Later, I did my masters on the modern history of the Middle East at the University of Texas at Austin. I was a visiting scholar at Bogazici, Bilkent University and EHESS. I studied at Damascus University for durign the Summer of 2008. Currently I am writing my dissertation titled "Politics of Alliance and Rivalry on the 19th-Century Ottoman-Iranian Frontier: The Case of Baban Principality and Sulaimaniya in Iraq, (1784-1851)."

Sample Publications

"Images of Kurdish Women in 19th-Century Western Travelogues" in et.al, Kurdish Women, (Istanbul: Hakkari University Press, 2011)

Current Position

Doctoral Candidate, Freiburg University