Asian and Middle East Studies and the Department of Religious Studies welcome Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, author and associate professor of history at the College of William & Mary to discuss her work on Thursday, April 20, at 4:10 p.m. in Higley Auditorium.
Ayfer Karakaya-Stump holds a Ph.D. in history-Middle Eastern studies from Harvard University (2008) and is the author of "The Kizilbash/Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics and Community" (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019/2020), which won the 2020 SERMEISS book award. She has also published many scholarly articles and chapters on Alevi-Bektashi history, a selection of which appeared in a book entitled "Vefailik, Bektaşilik, Kızılbaşlık: Alevi Kaynaklarını, Tarihini ve Tarihyazımını Yeniden Düşünmek" (Istanbul: Bilgi University Press, 2015; 4th edition 2022). Her scholarly interests include the social and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman-Safavid borderlands, Sufism, nonconformist religious movements, Kizilbash/Alevi-Bektashi communities, and women and gender in Islamic(ate) societies.