Mansur Bakir

Mansur Bakir is a Ph.D. candidate in Middle Eastern History and a dissertation fellow at the Florida State University Humanities Center. His research interests include political movements and ideologies, intellectual history, legal history, state formation and political crimes. His dissertation brings together questions of loyalty, exclusion, and violence to examine the use of political crimes in the construction of national identity and statecraft, as well as in struggles between competing claims to sovereignty in the Middle East following World War I. Drawing on archival research conducted in Ankara, Istanbul, and Cairo, his work engages sources in Arabic, Turkish, and Ottoman Turkish. Bakir holds a B.A. in political science and international relations from Istanbul University, an M.A. in international relations from Istanbul Medeniyet University, and an M.A. in History from Florida State University. His research has received support from the Granville L. Larimore Endowment for Excellence in Arts and Sciences and the Graduate Student Endowed Fund for Excellence in the Humanities. He has presented his research at international conferences across North America and Europe.