Paulina D. Dominik received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Oxford, where she read Turkish and Persian. In 2013 she was awarded an MSt in Oriental Studies from the same institution. Her Master programme concentrated on the history of Middle East and Eastern Europe and intersections between both. In 2013-2014 she was based at the Orient-Institut Istanbul where she held a fellowship and since has been contributing to the ‘Istanbul Memories: Personal Narratives of the Late Ottoman Period’ project which seeks to recover, collect and reread personal narratives on late Ottoman Istanbul, based on sources written in a variety of languages spoken in the Ottoman Empire.

Between White Eagle and Crescent: Polish Political Émigrés in the Ottoman Empire and Their Voices in the Intellectual Debates during the Second Constitutional Period (1908–1919) – A Case Study of Tadeusz Seyfeddin Gasztowtt (1881–1936)

Her research focuses on the role of the Polish political émigrés in the transfer of knowledge and ideas between the Ottoman and European intellectual milieus as well as their participation in the Ottoman intellectual debates from the Tanzimat Era until the Second Constitutional Period (1839-1918). With her research she hopes to shed light on current debates on intellectual and cultural transfers between Europe and the Middle East, the question of late Ottoman identity, the problematic of co-existing loyalties of Ottoman minorities as well as the role that the Ottoman Empire played in Central Europe throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

contact: paulina.dominik@fu-berlin.de