Morgan Sinan Tufan

Morgan Sinan Tufan is a Ph.D. candidate in Ottoman Empire and Middle Eastern history at Stanford University. In his work, he explores the construction of the border between the Ottomans, the Safavids, and the Kurds during the sixteenth century. He received his double bachelor’s degree in History and Political Science from Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (2010) and his Master's in History from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (2013). His research, which includes archive documents in Ottoman Turkish, Persian, and Arabic housed in Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, was featured in Borromeo & Vatin (eds.), Les Ottomans vu par eux-mêmes (2020).