Ella Fratantuono

Research Interests:

Ottoman Empire, Nineteenth Century, Middle East, Migration, Migrants and Refugees, Child and Youth Migrants, State-building, Historical Dictionaries

Selected Publications:

• Governing Migration in the Late Ottoman Empire. Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
• Ella Fratantuono and Lucia Carminati, “Introduction: Children and Youth on the Move in Middle East and North African History,” Mashriq & Mahjar, 11, no. 2 (2024): 1-11.
• Ella Fratantuono and Alyssa Martin, “Moving Subjects: Directions and Methodological Challenges in the Historical Study of Migrant Children and Youth.” History Compass e12792, 2023.
• “Useful Refugees in Ottoman and Turkish Politics,” Border Criminologies, 25 May 2023.
• “Colonization, Territorialization, and Displacement in Ottoman Migration Policy, 1856-1918.” In Postcoloniality and Forced Migration: Migration Management, Surveillance and Agency, edited by Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, Sharla M. Fett, Lucy Mayblin, Nina Sahraoui, and Eva Magdalena Stambol, 46-60. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2022.
• “Producing Ottomans: Internal Colonization and Social Engineering in Ottoman Immigrant Settlement.” Journal of Genocide Research 21, no. 1 (2019): 1-24. 
• “State Fears and Immigrant Tiers: Historical Analysis as a Method in Evaluating Migration Categories,” Middle East Journal of Refugee Studies 2, no. 1 (Sept. 2017): 97-115. DOI:10.12738/mejrs.2017.2.1.0107

Regularly Offered Courses:

• HIST6693: Historiography and Methodology
• HIST2216: The Modern Middle East
• History Skills Seminar: Genocide before the Holocaust
• HIST1502/LBST2102: Muslims on the Move
• LBST2301/CTCM2530: Critical Thinking and Communication – States and Refugees

Education:

Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2016