
Musa Kazim Azimli
Field & Specialties
Early Modern Mediterranean and Ottoman Empire
Modern Middle East
History of Slavery and Capitalism
Digital Humanities
Education
2023- 2026 (Current) Ph.D University of Virginia
2021-2023 (Current) Digital Humanities Certificate Program, University of Virginia
2021-2023 M.A. University of Virginia
2018-2022 M.A. Koç University
2013-2018 B.A. Istanbul Bilgi University
2017 Exchange Student, Ghent University
Biography
I am a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of History at the University of Virginia working on slavery and social history in the Early Modern and Modern Middle East.
In 2018, I graduated as a high honor student from Istanbul Bilgi University and started my master's degree at Koç University Comparative Studies in History and Society. During my undergraduate and graduate studies, I took courses at the History Department of Ghent University within the framework of the Erasmus Exchange Program and I interned at the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam).
My dissertation project explores the history of the Imperial Slave Market in Istanbul from several layers by aligning with the interdisciplinary methods from spatial, legal, cultural, architectural, and digital history. In my research, I am trying to understand the human experiences of the market, explore its historical significance, uncover its architectural structure and spatial organization, reconstruct the economic and legal linkages between the market and the Ottoman state, and trace their changes over time from a macro and micro scale.
Awards & Honors
- Arts, Humanities&Social Sciences Summer Research Fellowship, University of Virginia (2023)
- Raven Fellowship, University of Virginia (2023)
- Graduate Global Research Fellowship, Center for Global Inquiry& Innovation (2023)
- UVA Department of History Summer Dissertation Research Funding (2022, 2023)
- Edward Vaughan Howell Fellowship (2021)
- University of Virginia PhD Fellowship (2021-2026)
- Ottoman Summer Program Scholarship, Koç University (ANAMED) (2020)
- Koç University M.A Scholarship (2018-2021)
- High Honors Certificate, Istanbul Bilgi University (July 2018)
- ÖSYM Full Scholarship (Coverage of Undergraduate Degree 2013-2018)
Media Appearances
My Digital Humanities Portfolio
musaazimli.myportfolio.com