Center for European Studies

Emrah Sahin is an Full Instructional Professor at the University of Florida, where he is teaching Turkey, Europe, US-Middle Eastern relations, religious violence, Islam, Mediterranean world, world cities, migrations, and the Ottoman Empire. By training, Sahin is a transnational historian focusing on how political forces relate to social exchanges taking place within and beyond national borders. Exploring how Muslims treat non-Muslims, his first project resulted in a recent book titled Faithful Encounters: Authorities and American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire. He is currently working on globally-oriented Muslim views of ethnicity, equality, and morality. This project includes a localizing narrative of ongoing debates over secularism and a critical study of six travelers who wrote about Europe and America.

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications

Faithful Encounters: Authorities and American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire. Part of the McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of Religion Series. Chicago, Kingston, London, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018

“Sultan’s America: Lessons from Ottoman Encounters with the United States.” Journal of American Studies of Turkey 39 (2014): 55-76

“Ottoman Society.” In Andrea Stanton et al., eds, Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. California: SAGE, 2012, vol. I, 185-90

“Construction of National Identities in Early Republics: A Comparison of the American and Turkish Cases.” The Journal of the Historical Society 10 (December 2010): 507-31 (co-authored with Timothy M. Roberts)

“Home Away from Home: Early Turkish Migration to the United States Reflected in the Lives of Bayram Mehmet and HazimVasfi.” In Kemal Karpat and Deniz Balgamış, eds, Turkish Migration to the United States: From Ottoman Times to the Present. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2008, 87-101