Elif Yumru
After my undergraduate degree at Koç University in Istanbul, double majoring in History and Archaeology & Art History, I pursued a Master's in the History department at Sciences Po Paris where I received the René Seydoux Scholarship. My Master’s thesis focused on the theme of public image through the case study of a nineteenth-century Ottoman-Egyptian female figure, Princess Nazlı Fazıl (1856/7-1913). It aimed to understand how and why Princess Nazlı became a political actor and a public figure in the nineteenth century in the Ottoman, British, and French presses.
My Ph.D. research at Cambridge focuses on Ottoman women during and in the aftermath of the Young Turk Revolution of 1908. I examine the changes in how women were perceived in society, their involvement in politics, the apprehension that arose in Ottoman society regarding their evolving roles, and the aspects of women's lives that remained unchanged despite the Revolution. My doctoral research, supervised by Dr Kate Fleet, is funded by the Cambridge International and Newnham College Scholarship. I am also a Postgraduate Researcher at the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies.
My research interests include the history of Ottoman women, the political, cultural, and social relations between the Ottoman Empire, France, and the British Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as the history of the press and propaganda in the Ottoman Empire.
"Cartoon Representations of Late-Ottoman Women (1870-1911)", Cambridge Economic and Social History Workshop, University of Cambridge, 14 March 2023.
"The World Upside Down: Women and the Young Turk Revolution of 1908", The Ottomans and Disorder, The Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, University of Cambridge, 8 July 2023.
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Yumru, Elif. ‘“An Oriental Gentlewoman”: Princess Nazlı Fazıl’s Interview in The Gentlewoman in 1899’. Middle Eastern Studies, 8 September 2023, 1–13.