Ozan Ozavci elected as Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Assistant Professor of Transimperial History Ozan Ozavci has been elected as a Fellow of the British Royal Historical Society (RHS) in recognition of his “contribution to historical scholarschip”.

Royal Historical Society

Founded in 1868, the Royal Historical Society is a learned society, membership organisation and charity with a 150 year history. Today, the RHS is the United Kingdom’s foremost society working for historians and history – held in high regard by historians internationally, and a partner to many similar organisations overseas.

Elections to the Fellowship are made through a process of peer review, after which the RHS Council evaluates the calibre of a scholar’s work and its utilisation by the academic community as well as the wider public. Fellows are elected among scholars whose work “looks beyond the immediate subject of the enquiry to offer insights and findings that contribute to our understanding of broader (historical) problems and issues”.

Ozan Ozavci new Fellow

The award of the fellowship is in recognition of Ozavci’s scholarly publications on the history of security, imperial interventions and peace-making in the wider Middle East, as well as his contributions to public history through his Lausanne Project and the curation of exhibitions in Belgium and Switzerland.

“Of couse, I’m very happy”, Ozavci says, “that my scholarly contribution has been recognised by such a prestigious body.”