History graduate, Adam Mestyan, appointed Assistant Professor at the History Department of Duke University

We are proud to announce that History PhD graduate, Adam Mestyan has recently been appointed as Assistant Professor at the History Department of Duke University. Adam finished his PhD at CEU in 2011 and since then have fulfilled a teaching position at Oxford University and held fellowships at Harvard and at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. His research focuses on the modern Middle East.

Additionally to his recent appointment, the Volkswagen Foundation elected Adam a “Freigeist Fellow.” 

His book, Arab Patriotism - The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt, is forthcoming during the spring of 2017 from Princeton University Press.