I am happy to share my Past & Present (@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social) article (available in Open Access). It examines what happened to the "abandoned land" of Muslim refugees in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Romania after the end of Ottoman rule in 1878 and finds much post-Ottoman legal continuity. (1)

Stanford University Press is running an end of summer sale with 50% off on all titles until September 8. Check out Empire of Refugees and many brilliant books in Middle East Studies and other subjects! www.sup.org/books/subjec...

Thank you, @stanfordpress.bsky.social! And many thanks to the International History and Politics section award committee at @apsa.bsky.social! I am very honored and grateful.

I have earned tenure. Getting to tenure is a shared journey. I am forever grateful to so many: those who trained me, provided feedback at conferences, read my submissions, peer reviewed my manuscripts, wrote letters. I will pass this intellectual generosity forward. ❤️

Bravo! A brilliant book!

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

Professor @vhtroyansky.bsky.social is bringing his award-winning book, Empire of Refugees, to Hamburg! Excited to organize his lecture and to invite all interested to attend: Th. 26 June 2025 at 16:15, Lecture Hall K, @uni-hamburg.de.

I am going on a mini book tour around Germany! I am very excited to talk about Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social‬, 2024) in the coming weeks: June 18: Berlin June 23: Marburg June 26: Hamburg July 14: Munich www.sup.org/books/middle... Please stop by if you are around. Details below.

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

🙏 Thank you very much to @vhtroyansky.bsky.social for his fascinating presentation for our seminar series: Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State If you missed it, you can watch the video now: youtu.be/g_uNSeWjvtM?...

Dear ASN (@asn-org.bsky.social) attendees, please join us for the Book Panel on Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) on Thu, May 22, at 3:20-5:00 PM. #ASN2025 Migration, diaspora, Caucasus, Russian Empire, Middle East, and more. It will be a party! www.asnconvention.com/panel-10

@vhtroyansky.bsky.social's research examines Muslim refugee migration and its role in shaping the modern world. He is also the author of "Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State." sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/empire-refugees

Was thrilled to chat about Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) with @euraknot.bsky.social. We covered a range of topics, incl. North Caucasian refugee migration, settler colonialism, slavery, diaspora-making, and the rise of Amman. Many thanks to Sean Guillory and Rusana Novikova.

I cannot wait to share my work at the brilliant seminar series an Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre @refugeestudies.bsky.social. Please join us on Zoom next Tuesday, May 20, at 5 pm UK/12 pm EDT/9 am PDT.

Dans le dernier numéro des #Annales 'Pluraliser la #modernité politique. Actualité de l’histoire #transimpériale russo-ottomane (note critique)' par Masha Cerovic (@mcerovic.bsky.social) Une note critique à propos de trois ouvrages récents 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

From the archive 📚📚 Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (@vhtroyansky.bsky.social) on “Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State” (Stanford University Press) 🎧👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2024/05/21/v...

Very much looking forward to speaking about Empire of Refugees at the University of Chicago tomorrow! ❤️ Please join us if you are around: Thu, May 8, at 4:00-5:30 PM, in Stuart Hall 104. Many thanks to the Middle East History and Theory Workshop for hosting!

Very much looking forward to speaking about Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) at Yale this Thursday! If you are nearby, please stop by. (And we'll also rally that day!) Many thanks to Yale's Council on Middle East Studies and the brilliant Eda Pepi for hosting.

Many thanks to @mcerovic.bsky.social for reviewing my book, Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) and the books of my brilliant colleagues, Lale Can (Spiritual Subjects) and Will Smiley (From Slaves to Prisoners of War) in Les Annales. (1) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Great book talk on Empire of Refugees by Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky yesterday in Utrecht! Insightful discussion and an outstanding Q&A. Thanks to The Lausanne Project and Turkey Studies Network for organizing! @vhtroyansky.bsky.social @ozanozavci1.bsky.social @turkeystudies.bsky.social

Very excited to talk about Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) at Utrecht University (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) this Wed, Mar 12. Looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones in the Netherlands. Many thanks to @ozanozavci1.bsky.social for the invitation!

It was a real treat to listen to @vhtroyansky.bsky.social speaking about his landmark study ‘Empire of Refugees’, published last year. His research makes a tremendous contribution to understanding the nexus between Russian & Ottoman imperial power & the mobility of Muslim populations. Recommended!

I am excited to share my roundtable article, "Hijra from the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union," in IJMES. It examines displacements from Crimea and the Caucasus to the Ottoman Empire in 1774–1914 and from Central Asia to Afghanistan and Iran in the 1920s–30s. (1) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Very excited to present Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) at Utrecht on March 12! If you are in the Low Countries, please join us.

Thank you, @eneskiraz.bsky.social, for the generous review of Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) in Slavonic and East European Review.

I am very honored to have been awarded the 2024 Alixa Naff Prize in Migration Studies for Empire of Refugees. Many thanks to the Khayrallah Center and the selection committee. It was a privilege to write this book about refugees in the Ottoman Empire. lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/news/2025/01...

I published an op-ed in @sacramentobee.bsky.social on the poor prospects for refugee admissions during the second Trump presidency and the souring attitudes towards refugees in Europe — amid the world’s record numbers of displaced people. www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...

I shared my thoughts on transnational archival research and decolonization in an article in @kritikajournal. Many thanks to editors of the timely methodological forum on writing new tsarist and Soviet histories without current access to Russian archives. muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...

I’m trying to put together a starter pack for historians of the Ottoman Empire. Who should be added? go.bsky.app/3G4pxss

Starting Central Asian Starter Pack! Please write in comments if you want to be added/want to add someone! go.bsky.app/NGfwkUA

As there was no starter pack on #Caucasus, I made one. It's very short, so feel free to help expand it go.bsky.app/4cNo12q

A starter pack for new Bluesky folks who want to find journalists based in the Middle East or covering the region in one way or another. Many a great scribe/anchor on this list, yet many are missing, so this will be updated as more names join the platform. go.bsky.app/EGozoFY

What more could you want from the Middle East Medievalists Bluesky than a Middle East Medievalists starter pack? Connect with Middle East Medievalists MEMbers on Bluesky. If you are a MEMber of MEM and want to be included, let us know. go.bsky.app/PFgkbsW

My Russia/USSR/Eurasia starter pack has almost tripled in size since its humble beginnings! If you haven’t checked it out, or did so a while ago, have a look again to find even more people! go.bsky.app/CagBxPQ

Friends and colleagues heading to #ASEEES24 in Boston, join us on Sat, Nov 23, at 12:00 pm, for the book discussion — EMPIRE OF REFUGEES (Stanford, 2024). Themes: migration, the Caucasus, Russia, the Middle East, Islam. convention2.allacademic.com/one/aseees/a...

Dear digital attendees of our very virtual MESA annual meeting, please join us on Wed, Nov 13, at 2:30–4:30 pm EST, for a sparkling panel on immigration in early republican Turkey, feat. Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular, Gözde Emen Gökatalay, Ellinor Morack, and Sarah Shields! #MESA2024

I signed the contracts! The Turkish and Russian translations of Empire of Refugees are in the works. ❤️ I cannot wait for the book to be accessible to many more in Turkey, the North Caucasus, and beyond!

In Empire of Refugees ( @stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky tells the story of a million North Caucasian Muslims, who sought refuge in the Late Ottoman Empire. Paul Csillag reviews the book. Read the review here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/muhaj...

Dear UK colleagues and friends, I will be giving several virtual talks about Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024). Zoom in! Sep 30 — University of Edinburgh Oct 2 — University College London Oct 7 — Anglo-Turkish Society Oct 28 — King's College London More details below.

What a joy it was to talk about Empire of Refugees (Stanford UP, 2024) with the Ottoman History Podcast and to record that episode in person in Istanbul! And what an honor it is to open their new season! Many thanks to Chris Gratien and Can Gümüş.

Hugely interesting talk with @vhtroyansky.bsky.social in the Ottoman history podcast on his book Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State. Do listen, if you have any interest in migration, refugees, Circassians, North Caucasus, Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Amman etc.

‏Many thanks to ⁦‪7iber‬⁩ for publishing an incredible feature article in Arabic about the rise of Amman, based on my book, Empire of Refugees. ‏شكرًا جزيلاً لحبر على هذه المقالة الرائعة عن تأسيس عمان على يد الشركس بناءً على البحث في كتابي إمبراطورية المهاجرين !

Reuben Silverman interviews @vhtroyansky.bsky.social about Muslim refugees from the North Caucuses in the Ottoman Empire for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.

Very excited to discuss Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) at University of Wisconsin-Madison on Thursday, April 11. creeca.wisc.edu/event/empire...

Very excited to speak about Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) at Princeton this Monday! Please join us if you are around. nes.princeton.edu/events/empir...

Empire of Refugees by @vhtroyansky.bsky.social reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. This book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration sup.org/books/title/...

Empire of Refugees is officially out today!

My first book, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (February 2024), is available for preorder! Stanford University Press is running a 30% off sitewide sale through the end of February 2024! www.sup.org/books/title/...

My new article, “Letters from the Ottoman Empire: Migration from the Caucasus and Russia’s Pan-Islamic Panic,” has been published by Slavic Review. For years, I have been searching for Muslim refugees’ letters exchanged across the Russo-Ottoman border in the 1850s–1914. doi.org/10.1017/slr.... (1)