Dr. Ozan Özavcı is Assistant Professor of Transimperial History. His research focuses on the entangles histories of Europe and the Middle East &North African from the late eighteenth century until the 1950s. In his new monograph Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864 (Oxford University Press, 2021), he analyses the genealogy of western armed interventionism in the Ottoman Levant in the long nineteenth century. Dr Özavcı is currently writing his third monograph provisionally titled The Invention of the Eastern Question: International Law, Capitulations, and Security in the Embassies of Sir Robert Liston (under contract with Bloomsbury). In his previous research, Dr Özavcı investigated the idea of liberty in the Middle East and the Caucasus, which resulted in the publication of his first book Intellectual Origins of the Republic (Brill, 2015).

Dr. Ozan Özavcı is Assistant Professor of Transimperial History. His research focuses on the entangles histories of Europe and the Middle East &North African from the late eighteenth century until the 1950s. In his new monograph Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864 (Oxford University Press, 2021), he analyses the genealogy of western armed interventionism in the Ottoman Levant in the long nineteenth century. Dr Özavcı is currently writing his third monograph provisionally titled The Invention of the Eastern Question: International Law, Capitulations, and Security in the Embassies of Sir Robert Liston (under contract with Bloomsbury). In his previous research, Dr Özavcı investigated the idea of liberty in the Middle East and the Caucasus, which resulted in the publication of his first book Intellectual Origins of the Republic (Brill, 2015).