New Scholarship on Transnational Asia (NSTA) Lecture Series
“The End of Empire in Asia as Transnational History”
Associate Professor Cemil Aydin
Department of History, George Mason University
Dr. Aydin studied at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul University, and the University of Tokyo before receiving his PhD from Harvard University in 2002 in the fields of history and Middle Eastern studies. He was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, and a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies.
Dr. Aydin has previously taught at Harvard College, Princeton University, Ohio State University and the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. Since 2009, Dr. Aydin has been a faculty member at George Mason University, where he holds the IIIT Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies.