MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
Fox International Fellowship

Orçun Can Okan

Fox International Fellowship
Academic Year: 2012-13
Direction: To Yale
Exchange Partner: Boğaziçi University, Turkey
Research Interests:

'za Generation In the Middle': Ex-Ottoman Arab Leaders In Syria And Iraq In the Interwar Period

Orçun Can Okan is a Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford. He received his PhD in History from Columbia University in 2020 and subsequently held a postdoctoral fellowship in Global History and Governance at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale (SSM) in Naples, Italy (2020–2023), before working as a Research Associate on the ERC-funded Moving Stories project at the University of Oxford (2023–2025). Prior to his doctoral and postdoctoral studies, Okan studied History and Turkish Language and Literature at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. For current teaching and research interests, please see: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-orcun-can-okan.