Tenure Track Alternative Career Paths: Policy Consulting

This webinar features two PhD graduates who discussed their experience in finding alternative career paths and answer your questions about the world of think tanks. Hosted by Critical Ottoman & Post-Ottoman Studies (CO+POS) and co-sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Society for the Humanities, Near Eastern Studies, and the Department of History.

Speakers:
Howard Eissenstat
Nicholas Danforth

Moderator:
Durba Ghosh

About CO+POS:
Housed within the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies (CO+POS) highlights the latest in innovative research about Southwest Asia, North Africa, and Southeast Europe—a region encompassing the Turkic world, the Ottoman Empire, and its successor nation-states.

CO+POS gives scholars, artists, and practitioners a platform for challenging traditional understandings of this part of the world. From novel perspectives on the Ottoman Empire's architectural heritage to critical policy analyses of current events, CO+POS offers fresh approaches to the study of the dynamic region at the center of the Afro-Eurasia continent.

Speaker Profiles:

Howard Eissenstat is an Associate Professor of History at St. Lawrence University in Upstate NY. His scholarship focuses on the relationship between religious and national identity in the late Ottoman contemporary and Modern Turkey, with additional work on contemporary Turkish politics and international relations. Eissenstat served as a Turkey Country Specialist for Amnesty International, USA between 2006 – 2017 and was primary author of the Turkey section of the Freedom House Annual Report from 2018 – 2020. His current research is on the place of non-Muslims in Turkish policy and politics since 1980.

Nicholas Danforth is author of the book The Remaking of Republican Turkey: Memory and Modernity since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire. He has covered U.S.-Turkish relations for the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Bipartisan Policy Center. Danforth received his M.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies and his B.A. from Yale. He completed his Ph.D. in history at Georgetown University in 2015 and has written widely about Turkey, U.S. foreign policy, and the Middle East for publications including The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, War on the Rocks, and The Washington Post.

Durba Ghosh is a professor of history and the director of the Humanities Scholars Program at Cornell University. Prof. Ghosh is the author of Sex and the Family in Colonial India: the making of empire (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919-1947 (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Her next project emerges from Gentlemanly Terrorists and considers how we commemorate national heroism in the postcolony.