Having spent years rewriting a dissertation that was too narrowly focused on interwar Soviet-Turkish relations to make it more international, I am thrilled to have received the #AHA26 book prize in European international history. The list of past winners contains many of the works that inspired me.

Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions.

Our (I & Alexander Morrison) article on Kars is out. The stronghold of strongholds: Kars and the Russian military, 1807-1878 @routledgehistory.bsky.social @crimeanwar.bsky.social @mesutuyar.bsky.social @mhafhs.bsky.social journals.openedition.org/chreecc/15443

Just published. A Turkish-language history of the Soviet Union, written with @onurisci.bsky.social. Somewhat in the way that Dan Diner asked in Cataclysms how 20th-century history might be told looking out from Odesa, we approach Soviet history with Turkish connections/comparisons in mind.

The list of past winners includes many scholars whose works were inspiration for my own. I am honored that my book was chosen for this award.

Congratulations to Anne O’Donnell, whose book Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution won the @aseees.bsky.social's Ed A. Hewett Book Prize for outstanding publication on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia, and/or Eastern Europe! Read about her book here: hubs.ly/Q03LB1yv0

Congratulations to Samuel Hodgkin, winner of the University of Southern California Book Prize for, Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism with Cambridge University Press. #ASEEESPrizes See all winners: buff.ly/nwIZZjj

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New article on Open Access! Georgios Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social on 'Nationality before Internationalism in the Age of Empire: Robert W. Seton-Watson and the Shifting Landscape of Eastern Europe, 1900–1940' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Yıllar süren uzun bir yolculuğun sonunda yeni kitabımızın Ekim ayında @kronikkitap.bsky.social tarafından yayımlanacağını paylaşmaktan mutluluk duyuyoruz. Kitapta gökyüzünde bir anda belirip, muazzam bir enerjiyle parlayıp kayan bir yıldızın hikayesini anlattık, umarım beğenirsiniz.

Considering discussing this essay on the first day of the semester in my class on Historical Research and Writing 🗃️ The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

Congratulations Harrison King, 2025 Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Completion Fellow! “The Mountains Above the Black Sea: A History of the Georgian-Turkish Border, 1878-1965” buff.ly/wl2Qp6V

#History #SkyStorians Triple review klaxon! Andrew Peak on Samuel J. Hirst's Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939 (OUP, 2024). doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Really looking forward to talking with my friend, @samueljhirst.bsky.social, about his excellent new book on Friday.

Many thanks to @vhtroyansky.bsky.social for reviewing my book The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) in the #SlavicReview 83:4 W2024 doi.org/10.1017/slr.... ✨ #skystorians🗃️ #menasky #balkansky #islamicstudies

My book Kars Province under Russian Rule is now available for pre-order from @routledgehistory.bsky.social #KarsOblast #КарсскаяОбласть www.routledge.com/Kars-Provinc...

Diplomatic History is now on Bluesky! Check out our April edition if you haven't already: academic.oup.com/dh/issue

Erdem Sönmez @erdemsonmez.bsky.social reviews 'Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919–1939', by Samuel J. Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Saying hi to Bluesky with my review of Samuel Hirst's Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, just out in the English Historical Review enghistrev.bsky.social ‬ academic.oup.com/ehr/article-...

At the end of the storm... #LFC #Liverpool

For those who want to make sense of how injustices by the incumbent toward the Istanbul mayor and toward the political opposition in general mobilize voters, our article with Tuğçe İnce just got assigned to an issue (open access) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Yozgat izlenimleri: Yozgatlılar bu çapta mitingi 1983’te Özal, 2002’de Erdoğan yapabildi. Biz 50 yıldır CHP’yi burada görmedik dediler. CHP'nin tarihî mitinginin ardından kentte neler konuşuldu? aposto.com/s/yozgattan-...

For those in Ankara this Thursday:

Yeni yazım. fikirturu.com/jeo-politika...

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Seeing police snatch a Turkish PhD student off the street for writing an op-ed was horrifying. And familiar. With Turkey colleagues @heissenstat.bsky.social + @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social, we wrote about how repression functions by starting with minority groups. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I hope everyone in Washington who spoke out against Turkey's unjust jailing of Andrew Brunson will be equally forceful in speaking out against this:

I wrote about @samwetherell.bsky.social's brilliant new book www.bostonreview.net/articles/los...

✅ Tuğba Bayar (Bilkent University) bit.ly/candidatepro...

I’m an amateur when it comes to this but my basic take when it comes to higher ed as a sector is there are two points critics and supporters both miss. First, “admin bloat” is a function of the winnowing of the welfare state and a response to students demanding/requiring proliferating services.

This Monday (March 10th) at 16:00 EST/23:00 IST, Eileen Kane and Steffi Marung will join me for an online discussion of Against the Liberal Order as part of the Washington History Seminar series. The event is co-hosted by @wilsoncenter.org and @historians.org. Registration via the link below.

New episode 🚨🚨 Selim Koru (@selimkoru.bsky.social) on Turkey’s role in the emerging anti-liberal world order. His book, "New Turkey and the Far Right", dives deep into the stark worldview driving Turkey’s regime change under President Erdogan. 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/03/04/s...

My dad worked for one of the oldest state-owned enterprises in Turkey. During the 1980s/90s, when privatization was THE item on the agenda, the government appointed a new CEO. This guy--a complete outsider to the organization-- initially held a meeting where employees voiced their concerns..1/4

Astonishing behavior. Raises some big questions about the business model.

Excellent new article by @balistrerialex.bsky.social in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Great to see this work on Turkey's interaction with the League of Nations/EFO. Of relevance for those interested in Turkey and (il)liberal internationalism, as well as for anyone who finds Turkish prices high.

İstanbul havalimanında 8 kahve, 8 yarım litrelik su, 8 kapuçino, 8 kruvasan, 8 tane de sandviç al, asgari ücret finito.

Absolutely delighted about the publication of UNCONQUERED STATES (Oxford University Press), which looks at the global history of non-European powers in the imperial age.

I'm so glad Santa is a red.

Great podcast with Nergis Ertürk about her book on Soviet-Turkish literary encounters between the 1920s and the 1960s. newbooksnetwork.com/writing-in-red

An interview with @erhankelesoglu.bsky.social on the recreation of the Türkiye İş Bankası museum in the latest issue of Toplumsal Tarih journal. Erhan Keleşoğlu ile Türkiye İş Bankası Müzesi’nin yeniden tasarlanış sürecini konuştuk. Toplumsal Tarih’in Aralık sayısında…

And on other things, too! Glad to see this out. Thanks to Thomas and @stoeckmannjan.bsky.social for putting this together!

I enjoyed this conversation with @williamarmstrong.bsky.social of @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social. To download Against the Liberal Order: academic.oup.com/book/57363

@andottoman.bsky.social is here #menasky

Our schedule for the 2025 OTSA W'OTSAp Fridays!

A book about #Egypt that debuts next week: “The Politics of Melodrama: The Cultural and Political Lives of Ihsan Abdel Kouddous and Gamal Abdel Nasser.”

Umut hoca's work on decolonization and international law has helped me think through the connections between the Soviet-Turkish encounter and the history of liberal internationalism and the history of capitalism. Excited to read his review in JMH!

A personal essay of a Syrian in Istanbul observing the fall of the regime:

I'm not sure that I could pick a favorite essay from this thread; I am sure that I'm waiting hard for the book-length history of Turkey that's on its way.