Join the University Sunrise Rotary Club for a program featuring Middle East expert Resat Kasaba.
The program will be presented on Zoom on Thursday morning with the Zoom line opening at 7 a.m. The formal meeting including the program runs from 7:30-8:30 a.m. No registration is required, and the program is free. Click here to join the meeting.
Reşat Kasaba is Professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He an expert in the history and politics of the Middle East and has taught undergraduate and graduate students at the Jackson School for over 30 years.
Kasaba’s main area of research is the Ottoman Empire, Turkey and the Modern Middle East. He has written on economic history, state-society relations, migration, ethnicity and nationalism, and urban history. Most recently, he edited volume four of the Cambridge History of Modern Turkey and wrote A Moveable Empire: Ottoman Empire, Migrants, and Refugees. Kasaba has received grants from the Carnegie Corporation, Andrew Mellon Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and the National Science Foundation. In 1999, he was the recipient of the University of Washington’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Kasaba served as the Director of the Jackson School from 2010 to 2020.
Kasaba served as the director of the Jackson School for 10 years, completing his tenure in June 2020. He is regularly featured in local and regional media for insights into some of the world’s most pressing issues.
