[MES Forum] Alums to speak tomorrow

[McClimans, Melinda]

Dear Forum,
Tomorrow at 4:00 via Zoom we will be hosting alums Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer and Rachel Simroth as they share their career journeys in the “Alumni Career Spotlight.” https://mesc.osu.edu/events/middle-eastern-studies-alumni-career-spotlight

Assistant Professor of History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies & Steering Committee Chair of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative (OTS-NYU), Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer<https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/AyseBaltacioglu.html>, specializes in Middle Eastern history. She focuses on the early modern Ottoman and Safavid Empires. She earned her PhD in History from The Ohio State University in 2016. Her research delves into the complex questions surrounding the Sunni-Shi‘i conflict during this period, exploring its intricate intersections with political, religious, and fiscal legitimacy within inter-confessional and inter-imperial contact zones.

Rachel Simroth graduated from Ohio State in May 2024 with a B.A. in International Relations. She is currently a Research Fellow at Freedom House where she is working on the NGO’s annual flagship report, Freedom in the World. At Ohio State, she was a research assistant at both the Mershon Center and the Department of Political Science and was also editor-in-chief of Alger International Affairs Magazine. She has interned for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the State Department, and she has studied abroad in Jordan, the West Bank, and Israel.

Please register for the Zoom meeting and help us give them a warm welcome! https://osu.zoom.us/meeting/register/kxoPuNYDTYiAKpAt_TG4lQ


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