Iran Colloquium: Migration and its Diplomacy in the Sixteenth Century Ottoman-Safavid Borderlands

Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer is an assistant professor of History at New York University, specializing in the early modern Ottoman Empire and its intricate rivalry with the neighboring Safavid Empire in Iran. Her research and publications delve into the formation of empires in the Middle East, emphasizing their intersection with sectarian, geo-political, and fiscal concerns. She focuses particularly on inter-confessional and inter-imperial contact zones in Anatolia, Kurdistan, and western Iran.