G?zde Yaz?c? C?rüt is a researcher at the University of Regensburg’s Department of Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies (DIMAS), specializing in transimperial and transnational history. She previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Entanglements and Globalisation at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig and as a principal investigator in the DFG-funded priority programme Transottomanica. Her first book, Loyalty and Citizenship: Ottoman Perspectives on its Russian Border Region (1878–1914), the sixth volume of the Transottomanica research series, examines sovereignty, citizenship, and border-making in northeast Anatolia and the southern Caucasus, linking state governance and borderland survival strategies in a multi-ethnic, multi-religious context to broader questions of empire and modern statehood. Drawing on her academic experiences in Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan, her research explores how transimperial and transnational mobilities and connections interacted with local and regional dynamics, shaping each other over time and contributing to Eurasia’s social, cultural, and political transformations in the twentieth century.
CV
| since 10/2025 | Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Chair for Transregional Cultures of Knowledge (Acting for Dr. Siarhei Bohdan for the Winter Semester 2025–2026) |
| since 6/2025 | Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) for AHRC-DFG Project "Transitions: Examining Changing Regimes of Sexuality in Post-Soviet Muslim Republics" |
| Winter Semester 2024–2025 | Teaching Assignment (Lehrauftrag) at the Department of History, University of Leipzig |
| Winter Semester 2023–2024 | Teaching Assignment (Lehrauftrag) at the Department of History, University of Leipzig |
| Summer Semester 2023 | Teaching Assignment (Lehrauftrag) at the Global and European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig |
| 2020–2023 | Postdoctoral Researcher on the DFG Priority Programme "Transottomanica: East European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics" (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe [GWZO], Leipzig) |
| 2017–2020 | Full-time Lecturer, General Education Department, American University of Central Asia (AUCA) (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) |
Education
| 2/2016 | Awarding of the PhD degree by the University of Manchester (Dissertation topic: "Ambivalent Loyalties and Imperial Citizenship on the Russo-Ottoman Border between 1878 and 1914: An Analysis of the Ottoman Perspective") |
| 2011–2016 | Doctoral Candidate in Russian and East European Studies, University of Manchester (UK) |
| 2007–2010 | Doctoral Candidate in Ottoman History, Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) |
| 2008–2009 | Master's Student in History, Central European University (Budapest, Hungary) |
| 2004–2006 | Master's Student in Middle Eastern Studies, Leiden University (Netherlands) |
| 2003–2004 | Master's Student in Cultural Studies, Istanbul Bilgi University (Turkey) |
| 2002–2003 | Study of the Russian Language at Saint Petersburg State University (Russia) |
| 1997–2002 | Bachelor's Degree at Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey) (Major: Sociology, Minor: History) |
Research
- History of Citizenship in a Comparative Context
- History of the Ottoman Empire
- History of Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia
- Neoliberalism and Development Aid (Microcredit Programs)
- Pan-Ideologies: Pan-Slavism, Pan-Turkism, Pan-Islamism
- Trans-Imperial History
Teaching
Wintersemester 2025–2026
- Pan-Movements in Eurasia: Pan-Slavism, Pan-Turkism, and Pan-Islamism
- Russia's Imperial Borderlands
Publications
Monographs
Loyalty and Citizenship: Ottoman Perspectives on its Russian Border Region (1878-1914) (Go?ttingen: Brill/Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht, 2021)
Peer Reviewed Articles
“The neo-liberal conception of empowerment and its limits: micro-credit experiences of self- employed women in the bazaars of Bishkek,” Central Asian Survey, Volume 41, Issue 1 (2022), pp. 118-137.
Book Chapters
“Narod as a radical political invention: The outset of intellectual struggles over the nation in nineteenth century Russia,” in Ilker Co?ru?t and Joost Jongerden eds., Beyond Nationalism and the Nation State Radical Approaches to Nation (New York: Routledge, 2021), pp. 117- 135.
Research Reports
“A Qualitative Analysis of the Micro-Credit Programs in Bishkek: Empowering Women or Reinforcing their Subordination?" USAID-Building the Future, August 2019.
Book Reviews
Stephan B. Riegg, Russia’s Entangled Embrace: The Tsarist Empire and the Armenians, 1801–1914, New York: Cornell University Press, 2020, in Comparativ, Vol. 32 No. 6 (2022), pp. 777-780.
Projects and Networking
- Max-Weber-Stiftung (Georgia Office), Scholarship for Archival Research, 2024