Dr. Enno Maessen is Assistant Professor in Political History.

His research interests cover the fields of urban history, modern Turkey, the Eastern Mediterranean region, social movements and the politics of representation in the second half of the twentieth century. He has published in Patterns of Prejudice, Middle Eastern Studies, the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, the International Journal for History Culture and Modernity and Stadsgeschiedenis. His recent book Representing Modern Istanbul (2022) was published with I.B. Tauris. Prior to working at Utrecht University, Enno Maessen was a lecturer in the Department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, where he defended his PhD thesis - Building Beyoglu: Histories of Place in a Central District in Istanbul in 2019. Apart from his academic writing he publishes in various news outlets.

At Utrecht University Dr. Maessen teaches in the History programme and is a core teacher in the interdisciplinary Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) programme.

Dr. Maessen is co-founder of the Turkey Studies Network in the Low Countries (TSN), an independent, non-partisan, multi-disciplinary academic platform where researchers interested in the study of Turkey gather and share thoughts, especially in the Low Countries.