xxiHistorical Association, where we benefited from the keen comments of
Eliza Kent.
My understanding of the place of the Dönme and minorities in mod-
ern nation-states and ethno-religious identity of the Dönme was devel-
oped in several workshops. These include “Armenians and the End of the
Ottoman Empire” at the University of Chicago and “Contextualizing the
Armenian Experience in the Ottoman Empire” at the University of Mich-
igan organized by Ron Suny and Müge Göçek, “Borderlands: Ethnicity,
Identity, and Violence in the Shatter-zone of Empires Since 1848 ,” con-
vened by Omer Bartov at Brown University, the SIAS summer institute
on “Hierarchy, Marginality, and Ethnicity in Muslim Societies ( 7 th Cen-
tury to Second World War),” held in Berlin at the Wissenschaftskolleg
zu Berlin and in Princeton at Princeton University and organized by
Mark Cohen and Gudrun Kraemer, the workshop entitled “After An-
tiquity What? Jews and Greeks in Byzantium and Modern Greece: Sym-
biosis, Tensions, Cultural Transfer,” organized in Berlin, Germany, by
Saskia Dönitz and Joannis Niehoff-Panagiotidis at the Freie Universität
Berlin and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin; “Jewish Religion in Otto-
man Lands,” organized by Matthias Lehmann and Kemal Sılay at Indi-
ana University, Bloomington; and “Diaspora and Return: Sephardic Jews
Beyond Spain,” Sephardic Culture and History Conference, University
of California, Irvine, organized by Michelle Hamilton. Aron Rodrigue
and Alexander Orlov invited me to present the Dönme to Jewish Studies
audiences at an early stage of my research at Stanford University and the
University of Pittsburgh, respectively. Aron Rodrigue invited me to return
to Stanford and present the Dönme to the Mediterranean Studies Forum
just before I sent the book to the Press.
My thinking on cosmopolitanism was shaped by fellow participants in
a number of conferences. These include “Global Cities / World Histories,”
at the 22 nd Annual History & Theory Conference, University of Cali-
fornia, Irvine, “The Late Ottoman Port Cities and Their Inhabitants:
Subjectivity, Urbanity, and Conflicting Orders,” convened by Malthe
Fuhrmann and Vangelis Kechriotis, organized by the Mediterranean
Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the
European University Institute, Florence, Italy, and “Thinking Through
Turkey, Theorizing the Political,” at the Center for Research in the Arts
Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH), University of Cambridge,
United Kingdom, organized by Yael Navarro-Yashin and Meltem Ahıska.
Acknowledgments