Yasemin Bavbek

Yasemin Bavbek, a historical sociologist of empires, studies American Protestant educational and humanitarian institutions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Ottoman imperial context. She examines how transnational relations shape local categories of difference, institutions, and power dynamics and how trans-imperial processes undergird national institutions from a Bourdieusian perspective. Her research agenda focuses on the interaction of global religious networks, state-formation, and racialization processes in the Middle East. She received her PhD in sociology from Brown University in 2024.