Elke Shoghig Hartmann is a professor and head of the Institute for Ottoman and Turkish Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Prior to her appointment at Freie Universität Berlin, she held visiting professorships in Berlin (Islamic Studies), Bamberg (Middle Eastern Cultural Studies) and Hamburg (Turkology), and worked as a research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin (Islamic Studies, autobiographical research, history, Turkology), at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Russian and Asian Studies, trans-Ottoman history of interconnections) and at Péter Pázmány Catholic University of Budapest (Armenian Studies, History). In 2010, she founded the project ‘www.houshamadyan.org’ together with Vahé Tachjian.
Her research focuses on modern state and nation-building, as well as the military and history of violence in the Ottoman Empire, with a regional focus on the eastern provinces, comparative imperial studies, and Ottoman-Turkish and Armenian personal accounts.
She is the author of, among other works, “Die Reichweite des Staates. Wehrpflicht und moderne Staatlichkeit im Osmanischen Reich 1869–1910” (The Reach of the State: Conscription and Modern Statehood in the Ottoman Empire 1869–1910), Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn, 2016, and “Örmény élet az oszmán birodalomban” (Armenian Life in the Ottoman Empire), L’Harmattan, Budapest, 2021.