Önder Eren Akgül
Education
- Ph.D, History, Georgetown University (2022)
- M.A., History, Sabanci University, Istanbul (2014)
- B.S., International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Ankara (2011)
Biography
Önder Eren Akgül is a historian of the Ottoman Empire and the Modern Middle East. He completed his Ph.D. in History at Georgetown University in 2022. Dr. Akgül teaches Introduction to International Studies at Miami University. Building upon his expertise in global history, Middle East history and histories of capitalism and the environment, his teaching brings a world-historical approach to current global issues.
Dr. Akgül is currently working on his first book manuscript, Ottoman Capitalism: Disaster Ecology and the Order of Accumulation in the Eastern Mediterranean, as an entangled history of capitalism, environment, and labor in Late Ottoman Western Anatolia. His publications include a forthcoming article in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, which examines the material and environmental impact of World War I on the Sinai Desert and the Greater Syrian provinces of the Ottoman Empire. He also produces podcasts for the Ottoman History Podcast. Concurrently with his major research interests in the history of capitalism, environment, and labor in the Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean World, he is developing a project on the history of the left in Turkey during the Long Global Sixties.