Associate Professor
Email: sates@smu.edu
Educational Background
- Ph.D. New York University
- M.A. University of Ankara
- B.A. Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Ph.D. Thesis
“Empires at the Margins: Towards a History of the Ottoman-Iranian Borderland and the Borderland Peoples,” New York University, MEIS-History, 2006 Middle East Studies Association Dissertation Prize in Humanities
Areas of Interest:
Ottoman-Iranian Relations, Kurdish History, Late Ottoman Empire, Sectarianism in the Middle East, Borderlands