| Photo | Name/Email | Dissertation/Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Sergen Avci savci@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2025) | Research interests: Early modern Ottoman-Turkish literature, Islamicate cultural history, gender and sexuality studies, book history, textual studies, prose genres |
| Tuna Basibek tunab@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2020) | Research Interests: Ottoman and Turkish History, Russian imperial history, Circassians and Northern Caucasus refugee and forced migration studies. |
| Berfin Cicek bcicek@uw.edu | Research Interests: Modern Iranian Literature, Modern Turkish Literature, Migrant Literature and Multilingualism, Comparative Modernisms, Testimony and Trauma, Memory Studies |
| Busra Demirkol bd092@uw.edu | Research Interests: Ottoman and Turkish history; state-society relations; sociological theory; crime and deviance; women, sex and gender |
| Valentina Fisicaro | Research Interests: | |
| Berkin Hizlan bhizlan@uw.edu | Research Interests: Early modern Ottoman history and literature, social and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire, gender and women's history, history of sexuality, history of medicine, history of Sufism |
| Anna Learn learna@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2024) | Research interests: Afghan women's literature; translation and gender studies; periodical studies; South Asian literature; Hispanic literature |
| Bahar Saadat sbs33@uw.edu | Research Interests: Cinema and Media Studies, Middle East Cinema, Iranian Studies, Cultural History and Propaganda, Persian Studies, Modern Iran |
| Solmaz Shakerifard solmus@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2020) | Dissertation Title: “Aural Aesthetics of Modernity: Iranian Classical Music and its Relationship with the ‘West'” |
| April Tong toapril@uw.edu | Research Interests: Modern and contemporary Turkish literature, Comparative Literature and World Literature, translation studies and (un)translatability, postcolonialism, comparative imperialism and modernity, 20th Century diaspora, melancholia, cultural geography |
| Sasha Ward sashay23@uw.edu | Research interests: Ottoman and Turkish history; Sephardic Jewish cultural and linguistic preservation; Jewish diasporas; nationalism and xenophobia; conspiracy theories and their effects on mass media and public opinion; state-society relations |