Georgetown backdrop

People

Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer headshot

Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer

Profile

This individual is not a direct affiliate of the Berkley Center. They have contributed to one or more of our events, publications, or projects. Please contact the individual at their home institution.

Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer is assistant professor in the Department of History and the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU. Her area of expertise is the religiopolitical history of the Middle East, with a focus on the Ottoman and Safavid Empires. The questions surrounding the Sunni-Shi‘ite conflict during the early modern period and its enmeshment with issues of geopolitical and fiscal legitimacy are at the core of her research.

Opens in a new window