Tansug Feryal

BA, Deree – The American College of Greece; MA, PhD, University of Kent

Feryal Tansuğ has a PhD in the area of Ottoman History at the University of Toronto. She has a BSc in Sociology from Middle East Technical University, and a master’s degree in history from Bilkent University. Her studies have focused on the Ottoman Empire’s transformation process in the nineteenth century, inter-communal relations in the multi-religious and multi-ethnic Ottoman society, and the Mediterranean and Aegean Islands. Her interests include social theory, transnational history, oral history, and migration. Her project “From the Empire to the Republic Northern Aegean Islands” was granted a prestigious TÜBİTAK grant (2013-2015). A book in Turkish and two peer-reviewed articles in English resulted from this research. Her recent project “Maritime and Islander Societies in the Eastern Mediterranean (1830s-1910s) was successful in the ERC Advanced Fellowships in the first step and invited for the interview, although it was eliminated by the committee members in the last stage.