Yeliz Cavus

Biography

Yeliz Çavuş is a historian of the Modern Middle East specializing in the intellectual and cultural history of the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic. She completed her Ph.D. in History at The Ohio State University in 2021. Drawing on her expertise in global history, the modern Middle East, state formation, and imperial and national histories—key areas for understanding the complex interplay between historical and contemporary global affairs—she teaches "Introduction to International Studies" at Miami University.

Dr. Çavuş is currently working on her first book manuscript, tentatively titled Crafting History Between Empire and Nation: Discourses, Practices, and Networks of Modern History Writing in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic. This work delves into the historiographical debates and intellectual networks (both local and global) within which the institutionalization, professionalization, and gradual nationalization of historical studies took place in the final decades of the Ottoman Empire, and during the first years of Turkish Republic.

Education

• Ph.D., The Ohio State University, History,
• M.A., The Ohio State University, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
• M.A., Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, History
• B.A., Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, History
• B.A., Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, Turkish Language and Literature

Research Interests

• Modern Middle East
• Global history 
• Late Ottoman and early Republican Turkish history
• Historiography
• Global intellectual history
• Comparative modernities
• Comparative nationalism(s)

Courses Taught

• ITS 201: Introduction to International Studies

Publications

Book Chapter

• “Teaching History in the Late Ottoman Empire,” in Routledge History of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Meltem Toksöz (Taylor & Francis: London, UK, in 2025)

Book Review

• Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient: A Critical Discourse from the East (1872-1932) by Zeynep Çelik, Yıllık: Annual 3 (2021): 219-220.