Matthew Ghazarian

Matthew Ghazarian received his Ph.D. from Columbia University's Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies in 2021. His research focuses on the late Ottoman Empire and modern Middle East, exploring the intersections of environmental history, political economy, and communal conflict. His book project, Ghost Rations, examines the development of the conflicts that tore apart the multi-ethnic, multi-confessional Ottoman Empire. Suffering, unequally borne, radicalized notions of belonging and exacerbated communal tensions, sowing the seeds for violence to come. Ghazarian also contributes to an Ottoman History Podcast and has taught in the Armenian Studies program and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley.

Personal Website

https://mghaz.github.io/

Field(s) of Study

Modern Middle East; Critical Political Economy; Political Ecology; Environmental History; Social History; History of Violence; Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict

Affiliation(s):

- History

- Armenian Studies Program