Cunda Island, TurkeyPantheon of Heroes, Kazan 1912Sudak, CrimeaInterior of Blue Mosque, IstanbulSunset over the Black Sea, Sevastopol 2006Tatar Dancer, outside KazanSergiev Posad, RussiaOrtakoy, Istanbul

James H. Meyer

 

I am an historian of Russia and the Middle East. I focus on the Turkic world, especially the Turkic-Muslim communities of the Ottoman Empire and Russia. A resident of Istanbul from 1992 to 1999, I received an MA from Princeton's program in Near Eastern Studies in 2001 and a PhD from the Department of History at Brown University in 2007. During the 2007-2008 academic year I worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies at Columbia University. In 2008-2009 I will be researching in Turkey, Russia, and Georgia under the auspices of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, in addition to holding the title of visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute.

 
Yalta, 2006
 
     
 

SUNSET OVER THE BLACK SEA, SEVASTOPOL 2006