Service and Public Engagement

My academic service grows out of the same commitments that shape my research and teaching: building intellectual community, making historical knowledge accessible, and creating spaces where students and wider publics can engage the Middle East, Turkey, and the Ottoman past with greater care and complexity.

At the University of Arizona, I served as co-head of the Graduate Student Association. In that role, I helped reactivate graduate student programming, supported communication among graduate students, and represented student concerns in departmental settings. This work involved practical organization, but it also involved a broader commitment to sustaining a graduate community in which students could share work, exchange advice, and participate more fully in departmental life.

I have also worked as an Outreach Scholar with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. This work connected university based research and teaching to public educational initiatives. It allowed me to think more seriously about how scholars can speak beyond their immediate fields and how histories of the Middle East can be presented to broader audiences without simplifying complexity.

My service interests include graduate student mentoring, workshop organization, public outreach, teaching support, and programming that connects history, area studies, and public life. As my career develops, I hope to continue building spaces where academic work can move between research, teaching, and public engagement.