EUME
2012/ 2013

Yigit Akin

Ottoman Cities at War

Yigit Akin is Assistant Professor of History at College of Charleston. He received his PhD from Ohio State University and his MA from Boğaziçi University. He is the author of Gürbüz ve Yavuz Evlatlar: Erken Cumhuriyet''te Beden Terbiyesi ve Spor [Robust and Vigorous Children: Physical Education and Sport in Early Republican Turkey] (Istanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2004), a study of the emergence and development of physical education and sports policies throughout the late Ottoman and early Republican eras. His other publications include “The Dynamics of Working Class Politics in Early Republican Turkey: Language, Identity, and Experience”, International Review of Social History (2009) and “Reconsidering State, Party, and Society in Early Republican Turkey: Politics of Petitioning”, International Journal of Middle East Studies (2007).

Ottoman Cities at War

His dissertation, entitled “The Ottoman Home Front during World War I: Everyday Politics, Society, and Culture”, examined the social and cultural dimensions of Ottoman society’s catastrophic experience of the First World War and analyses the impact of the war on the empire’s civilian population. During his EUME fellowship, Akin will expand upon his research and prepare a book manuscript based on his dissertation.