Emine Evered

Emine Evered (Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2005) is an Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University, specializing in the modern Middle East with a particular focus on the late Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic. Her first book Empire and Education Under the Ottomans: Politics, Reform and Resistance from the Tanzimat to the Young Turks (I.B. Tauris, 2012; paperback, 2019) explores educational policy and schooling in the context of society-state relations, identity politics, and international affairs. Her subsequent research and publications have delved into public health, disease, sexuality and sex work, and intoxicants. Her second book, Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity, is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press in fall 2024.

Selected Publications (peer-reviewed)

• K. T. Evered and E. Ö. Evered, “Consumption, Medical Intelligence, and Prejudice: Approaching Tuberculosis in early Republican Turkey’s Sociomedical Geographies,” Historical Geography (forthcoming).
• Kyle T. Evered and Emine Ö. Evered, “Of Hovels and Homes: Consumption, Class, and Domestic Space in Early Republican Turkey,” Middle Eastern Studies (2024). DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2023.2294775
• E.Ö. Evered, “Anti-alcoholism, Turkish and American Non-state Actors, and Their Mutual Pursuits of National and Global Sobriety,” Middle Eastern Studies 58 (2022): 256-270 https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2021.2007084
• E.Ö. Evered & K.T. Evered, “Mandating Immunity in the Ottoman Empire: A History of Public Health Education and Compulsory Vaccination,” Heliyon 6 (2020) DOI:10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05488
• E.Ö. Evered & K.T. Evered, “Between Promotions and Prohibitions: The Shifting Symbolisms and Spaces of Beer in Modern Turkey,” in Waltraud Ernst (ed.), In Alcohol Flows across Cultures: Drinking Cultures in Transnational and Comparative Perspective (London: Routledge, 2020): 84-122. DOI:10.4324/9780203732038-5
• E.Ö. Evered & K.T. Evered, “Dispensary, Home, and ‘A Women’s Army’: Framing Tubercular Geographies and Gender in late Ottoman Turkey,” Journal of Historical Geography 68 (2020):33-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2020.02.003
• E.Ö. Evered & K.T. Evered, “Sin in the City: An Urban History of Medicine and Modern Morality in Turkey, in Vojnovic,I., Pearson, A., Gershim, A., Deverteuil, D., & A. Allen, A (eds.), Handbook of Global Urban Health (Routledge, 2019). DOI:10.4324/9781315465456-3
• E.Ö. Evered & K.T. Evered, “Framing “Our Social Disaster”: Narratives of Disease and Sexuality in Turkey’s early Republic,” Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica 15 (1) (2017): 51-66. § DOI:10.31952/amha.15.1.3
• E.Ö. Evered & K.T. Evered, “From Rakı to Ayran: Regulating the Place and Practice of Drinking in Turkey,” Space & Polity 20:1 (2016):39-58. DOI:10.1080/13562576.2015.1057003
• Reprinted in Williams, Stewart & Warf, Barney (eds.), Drugs, Law, People, Place and the State (Routledge, 2017) DOI:10.4324/9781315204468-4
• K.T. Evered & E.Ö. Evered, “Not Just Eliminating the Mosquito but Draining the Swamp”: A Critical Geopolitics of TUBİM and Turkey’s Approach to Illicit Drugs,” The International Journal of Drug Policy 33 (2016):6-1 DOI:10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.05.003
• Designated as “Editors’ Choice” for the journal’s issue
• K.T. Evered & E.Ö. Evered, A Conquest of Rice: Agricultural Expansion, Malaria, and the State in Turkey,” Historia Agraria: Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural 68 (2016):143-178. Historia Agraria 68:103-136
• E.Ö. Evered & K.T. Evered., “A Geopolitics of Drinking: Debating the Place of Alcohol in early Republican Turkey,” Political Geography 50:1 (2016):48-60. DOI:10.1016/j.polgeo.2015.06.006
• K.T. Evered & E.Ö. Evered, “An Atlas of Maladies, Microbes, and Morals: Tropes of Scientism in early Turkey’s Public Health Education,” Historical Geography 44 (2016):102-126. Historical Geography 44:102-126
• E.Ö. Evered & K.T. Evered, “From Rakı to Ayran: Regulating the Place and Practice of Drinking in Turkey,” Space & Polity 20:1 (2016):39-58.
• E.Ö. Evered & K.T. Evered, “’Protecting the National Body’: Regulating the Practice & the Place of Prostitution in early Republican Turkey,” Gender, Place, & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 20:7 (2013):839-857. DOI:10.1080/0966369X.2012.753584
• E.Ö. Evered & K.T. Evered, “Sex and the Capital City: The Political Framing of Syphilis & Prostitution in early Republican Ankara,” Journal of the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences 68:2 (2013):266-299. DOI:
• K.T. Evered & E.Ö. Evered, “Syphilis & Prostitution in the Socio-Medical geographies of Turkey’s early Republican Provinces,” Health & Place 18:3 (2012):528-535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.02.001
• K.T. Evered & E.Ö. Evered, “State, Peasant, Mosquito: Public Health Education and Malaria in Turkey,” Political Geography 31:5 (2012):311-323. DOI:10.1016/j.polgeo.2012.05.002
• K.T. Evered & E.Ö. Evered, “Governing Population, Public Health, & Malaria in the early Turkish Republic,” Journal of Historical Geography 37:4 (2012):470-482. DOI:10.1016/j.jhg.2011.02.002
• For a complete list of publications visit her ORCID page: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2026-8912