Merve Tekgurler

Merve Tekgurler is a Ph.D. student in the History Department at Stanford University. They received their BA from Freie Universität Berlin where they worked as a student assistant in the Chair for the Early Modern History with a focus on the interactions and relations of the Ottoman Empire with Central Europe, particularly with Germany. At Stanford, they intend to work on the Ottoman-Polish borderlands of the 17th and 18th centuries, with an emphasis on the changes and continuities in the region during the partitions of Poland. They are currently participating in the digitalization of the 1892 Ottoman Transportation Network Map and working on their own side project on the digitalization of the Ottoman-Polish border.