Asst. Prof. CEMAL ATABAŞ

Cemal Atabaş's academic field is late modern Ottoman history. He specifically focuses on the Ottoman administration in North Africa and 19th-century inter-imperial rivalries in the Mediterranean. He is broadly interested in the social sciences, with a particular focus on historiography and the philosophy of history.

He graduated from Marmara University with a degree in History Education in 2009. In 2011, he obtained his MA from Istanbul University with a dissertation titled (in translation) Savvas Pasha's Governorship in Crete (1885–1887). He later completed his PhD at the same university with a dissertation titled (in translation) The Establishment of Central Authority in the Tripoli Province and the Uprising of Sheikh Ghuma (1835–1858). His research relies extensively on sources from both Ottoman and British archives.

Between 2010 and 2022, he worked as a researcher in the Department of History at Istanbul University. He was also a visiting research student and fellow at the University of Birmingham and King’s College London in the United Kingdom. He is currently a lecturer at Marmara University’s Institute of Middle East and Islamic Countries Studies.