Philipp Wirtz

Department of History

Senior Teaching Fellow

London Middle East Institute (LMEI)

Member

Centre for Ottoman Studies

Member

Name:

Dr Philipp Wirtz

Email address:

pw10@soas.ac.uk

Telephone:

020 7898 4773

Address:

SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Building:

Russell Square: College Buildings

Office No:

306

Office Hours:

Mondays 2-3pm

Biography

I received my PhD from SOAS in 2013 after studies and research in Germany, Iran, Turkey and the UK. My research areas include the modern history of the Middle East, particularly of the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, especially contemporary Turkey. I am interested in "ego documents" and personal narratives, contacts between the Ottomans and the world around them as well as questions of cultural change and cultural politics.

Courses Taught

• The End of Empire in the Middle East & the Balkans
• The End of Empire in the Middle East and the Balkans I
• The End of Empire in the Middle East and the Balkans II

Past research: 

Personal narratives in the Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic, especially autobiographies. Relationships between cultural production and politics in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Middle East.

Current research projects: 

1. German expatriate intellectuals in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic, 1880-1933.