Halit Dundar Akarca

Halit Dundar Akarca is an assistant professor at Nazarbayev University. Currently he is working on took book-length projects. The first one is entitled “Military occupation and Imperial Formations in Occupied Lands: The Russian Occupation of Ottoman Territories in The First World War”. The book analyzes the roles of local and Russian imperial organizations in the formation of an imperial structure in Eastern Anatolia during World War I. The second project is entitled “Ground level actors of Russian Imperialism in the Ottoman World”. It focuses on the low level Russian imperial government officials, military agents, merchants, and scientists as actors of Russian imperialism and analyzes their role in the shaping of Russian foreign policy towards the Ottoman Empire.

At Nazarbayev University he teaches History of Kazakhstan, History of Modern Turkey, History of the Ottoman Empire, History of the First World War, and History of Modern Middle East. Before joining to Nazarbayev University, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, and as a teaching fellow at the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University.

Expertise

Diplomatic History, World War I, Ottoman History, Russian History, History of Modern Turkey, History of Central Asia

Current projects

Military occupation and Imperial Formations in Occupied Lands: The Russian Occupation of Ottoman Territories in The First World War

Ground-level actors of Russian imperialism in the Ottoman World