Anglo-American University in Prague Ebru Akcasu, Ph.D.
Letensk谩 5, Prague 1
A. Ebru Akcasu is a historian whose work examines the social, legal, and political transformations of the pivotal and tumultuous decades spanning the end of the Ottoman Empire through the drawing of post-World War I borders in the Middle East. Her publications have traced the continuities and ruptures of inclusion and exclusion with an emphasis on legal and affective belonging across imperial-post-imperial space and time, often centering gender and migration.
Dr. Akcasu received her Ph.D. in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS, University of London, in 2017. She holds a BA in History (California State University, San Jose), an MA in History with a concentration in Modern Europe and a minor in Modern World History (California State University, San Francisco), and an MA in the History of the Modern Middle East (SOAS, University of London). She has been advising BA and MA theses relevant to her field and convening introductory-level and more specialized courses at Anglo-American University since 2015.
Courses Convened
- Emergence of the Modern Middle East
- Islam and the West
- Migration and the Middle East聽
- Middle East through Film聽
- Islam and the West: A Cinematic Affair聽
- State and Ideology in the Middle East and North Africa
- Politics I
- World History I聽
Specializations
Modern Middle East, migration, gender, identity, legal and affective belonging
Publications & Other Activities
- Akcasu, A. Ebru. 鈥淧erformative Contradictions of Women鈥檚 Rights and Religious Freedoms: Dissonance Across Space and Time.鈥澛�Czech Journal of International Relations聽59(3): 44鈥�61. DOI:10.32422/cjir.1645
- Akcasu, A. Ebru. 鈥淔rom聽Scents of Freedom聽through beyond the聽Pit of Hell:聽Emine Semiye and the End of Empire.鈥� In聽鈥淚mperial Lives Turned National: Biographical Reflections on the Post-Ottoman Transformation鈥澛�eds. Yakoob Ahmed and A. Ebru Akcasu,聽Archiv Orient谩ln铆聽91/3 (2023): 497鈥�518.DOI: 10.47979/aror.j.91.3.497-518.
- Abdel Megeed, Maha and A. Ebru Akcasu. “Muslim Woman: The Translation of a Patriarchal Order In-Flux,” in Marilyn Booth and Claire Savina, eds., Ottoman Translations: Circulating Texts from Bombay to Paris. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
- Akcasu, A. Ebru. 鈥淢uslim Woman: a case study in collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to gender and class boundaries in the late Ottoman Empire,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;in H眉lya Adak and Richard Wittmann, eds. Mapping Gender in the Near East, Pera-Bl盲tter 36 (2022): 17-19.
- Akcasu, A. Ebru. 鈥淣ation and Migration in Late Ottoman Spheres of (Legal) Belonging: a Comparative Look at Laws on Nationality.鈥� Nationalities Papers (February 2021). DOI: 10.1017/nps.2020.79.
- Akcasu, A. Ebru. Review of Istanbul-Kushta-Constantinople: Narratives of Identity in the Ottoman Capital, 1830-1930, by Christoph Herzog and Richard Wittmann, ed., Biography 43/4 (2020): 855-85
- Akcasu, A. Ebru. 鈥溑瀍msettin Sami鈥檚 Women: (Self-)Censored Reflections on Gender, Islam, and Progress 鈥� 沤eny 艦emsettina Samiho: (Auto) cenzurovan茅 煤vahy o genderu, isl谩mu a pokroku.鈥� 狈辞惫媒&苍产蝉辫;Orient 74, (2019/3): 70-78.
- Akcasu, A. Ebru, review of When the War Came Home: The Ottomans鈥� Great War and the Devastation of an Empire, by Yi臒it Ak谋n, Review of Middle East Studies (December 2019): 389-391.
- Akcasu, A. Ebru. 鈥淢igrants to Citizens: An Evaluation of the Expansionist Features of Hamidian Ottomanism, 1876 鈥� 1909.鈥� Die Welt des Islams 56, 3/4 (2016): 388-414.
- Akcasu, A. Ebru. 鈥淟etters to the Author: Late-Ottoman Debates About Equality Between the Sexes, an Extract from Halil Hamid鈥檚 M眉savat-谋 Tamme.鈥� SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research 9 (2015/16): 68-72.