Zozan Pehlivan, University of Minnesota

Climate and Animals in late Ottoman Kurdistan

Bio: Zozan Pehlivan is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She completed her PhD at Queen's University, Kingston Ontario. Currently, she is working on her first monograph focusing on climate change and violence in the late Ottoman Empire. She is also a collaborator in a multi-disciplinary project, "Appraising Risk, Past and Present: Interrogating Historical Data to Enhance Understanding of Environmental Crises in the Indian Ocean World", funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) at Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC) of McGill University.