Provincial Worlds: Administration, Sociabilities and Languages in the late Ottoman Empire
studied history at Paris 1 University and modern Turkish at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris, along with social anthropology and Arabic at the École Normale Supérieure. In 2005 he completed his Ph.D. in history from Aix-Marseille 1 University, with a thesis entitled L'Accent de la province. Une histoire des rèformes Ottomanes è Chypre au XIXe siècle (forthcoming from Peeters Publishers, Paris & Leuven). Marc Aymes has been an associate member of the Etudes Turques et Ottomanes research team in Paris (CNRS and EHESS), a co-editor of the journal Labyrinthe. Atelier interdisciplinaire, and a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Turkish Studies.
During his fellowship in Berlin he is working on a research project entitled: Provincial Worlds: Administration, Sociabilities and Languages in the late Ottoman Empire.
