Zeynep Türkyılmaz received her PhD from the Department of History at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2009. Her dissertation, Anxieties of Conversion: Missionaries, State and Heterodox Communities in the Late Ottoman Empire, is based on intensive research conducted in Ottoman, British, and several American missionary archives. She was an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill between 2009 and2010 and a postdoctoral EUME Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien in 2010/11. She worked as an Assistant Professor of History at Dartmouth College between 2011 and 2016 and as a program coordinator and research fellow at Koc University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations finishing her book project based on her dissertation. Her research and teaching interests include state formation, gender, nationalism, colonialism, and religion with a focus on heterodoxy and missionary work in the Middle East from 1800 to the present. She returned as a EUME Fellow for the academic year of 2017/18 and continues to be with EUME in the academic years 2018-21 as a Fellow of the Forum Transregionale Studien associated with the Center for Global History at Freie Universität Berlin.
