Ozan Ozavci is an Associate Professor of Transimperial History at Utrecht University and the principal investigator of the ERC COOPERATION project. As part of this project, Ozan writes articles, book chapters and a monograph on sanitary internationalism in the Middle East and North Africa.
Ozan’s previous publications include Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864 (Oxford University Press, 2021), Intellectual Origins of the Republic: Ahmet Ağaoğlu and the Genealogy of Liberalism in Turkey (Brill, 2015), and The Invention of the Eastern Question: Sir Robert Liston and Ottoman Diplomacy in the Age of Revolutions (Bloomsbury, 2025). He has also co-edited They All Made Peace – What is Peace? The 1923 Lausanne Treaty and the New Imperial Order (Gingko, 2023, with Jonathan Conlin) and Securing Empire: Imperial Cooperation and Competition in the Nineteenth Century (Bloomsbury, 2024, with Beatrice de Graaf and Erik de Lange). Ozan is co-founder and co-convenor of the Lausanne Project.

Securing Empire. Imperial Cooperation and Competition in the Nineteenth Century
Beatrice de Graaf, Ozan Ozavci and Erik de Lange, Securing Empire. Imperial Cooperation and Competition in the Nineteenth Century, Bloomsbury Academic 2024.
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