Emrah Sahin is a specialist in state formations, international operations, and ethno-religious interactions with a particular interest in the history of Middle East and Turkey since 1808. He received his Ph.D. from McGill University and is the recipient of an SSHRC Award in Canada (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council), an SHF International Research Award in Turkey (Sabanci Humanities Foundation), and the Teacher of the Year Award at the University of Florida. His first book Faithful Encounters is an archive-driven narrative of the Muslim-male-centralist responses to Christian-family-modernist missionaries in Ottoman lands from Greece to Syria -- and is critically acclaimed in scholarly venues such as American Historical Review and Journal of World Christianity. He also edited volumes on cultural exchanges, language pedagogies, and a non-fiction graphic novel, and published peer-reviewed articles in journals including the Journal of Historical Sociology (“Myth of the Eternal State”). While on a Global Fellowship at the University of Florida, he embarked on a second major research project simultaneously tracing Muslim travelers, Kurdish massacres, and the morality dialectics that gained currency in post-1870 periodicals housed in Istanbul, Cairo, and Isfahan. Emrah Sahin is currently an Associate Instructional Professor in the Center for European Studies, an advisory board member in the Center for Global Islamic Studies, an affiliate faculty member in the Department of History and the Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship, a college-wide student advisor, and the coordinator of Department of Defense-funded Global Officer Program in Swahili and Turkish. Dr Sahin offers classic, novel, and transdisciplinary area-studies courses and honors reading seminars such as Modern Middle East, A History of God, Global Cities, and Soccer Culture.