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Heather L. Ferguson
Heather Ferguson is Associate Professor of Middle East and Ottoman History at Claremont McKenna College. She received an MA from the University of Texas, Austin, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Ferguson was an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, 2014–2015, for her The Proper Order of Things: Language, Power and Law in Ottoman Administrative Discourses (Stanford University Press, 2018). Her second book project, supported by the NEH and ACLS, is titled Sovereign Valedictions: ‘Last Acts’ and Archival Ventures in Ottoman and Habsburg Courts. Her research focuses on comparative early modern empires, sovereignty and power, linkages between archives and state governance, as well as on legal and urban transformations around the Mediterranean. Ferguson also serves as Editor of the Review of Middle East Studies.
Contact: History Department, Claremont McKenna College, 850 Columbia Ave., Claremont, CA 91711, United States.