Umit Kurt

Ümit Kurt is a historian of the modern Middle East, with a research focus on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. His research is on the social and economic history of late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic in the 19th and 20th centuries with a special focus on dispossession of Ottoman Armenians at large, imperial interest, ethnic politics and infrastructural transformations. He is currently Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities, Creative Industry, and Social Sciences (History) and an affiliate of the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is the author of award-winning book, The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province (Harvard University Press, 2021) and the co-author of The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide (Berghahn, 2017). He is now working on his third book manuscript project on the global patterns of mass violence in the Ottoman borderlands in 1890s-1920s.