Murat C Yıldız

Murat C. Yıldız is Assistant Professor of History at Skidmore College. He specializes in the cultural and social history of the modern Middle East. In particular, his research examines the intersections of sports, identity, the body, gender, and intercommunality in the late Ottoman Empire. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Los Angeles and served as a Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. His current book project examines the making of a shared physical culture among Muslims, Christians, and Jews of late Ottoman Istanbul. His writings have appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, the Arab Studies Journal, the Cairo Papers in Social Science, and AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies as well as in other venues such as The Nation and B|ta’arof Magazine. He is an assistant editor for the Arab Studies Journal.
Phone: 5185805273
Address: Skidmore College
History Department
815 N. Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866