Mehmet Dosemeci

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Columbia University
• B.A., University of California, Berkeley

Teaching Specialties

• Atlantic, Middle Eastern, and European history; Intellectual history; History of Revolutions and Social Movements.

Research Interests

• Mehmet Döşemeci’s research interests cover the intellectual and cultural history of modern Europe and the Middle-East. 
• His latest book, The History of Disruption (Verso Press: 2025) is a kinetic investigation of social struggle since the 18th century. It traces the emergence in the 1700s of a European ‘economy of movement’ which derived profit by expanding the flow of goods, credit, and bodies across the Atlantic World. The book details the violence that accompanied this movement, the coercion necessary to create regional, national, and international markets for goods, and the mobile, docile, labor force required to supply, connect, and protect them. It argues that since this economy’s inception, social struggle in the Atlantic world took place on a kinetic register, as the struggle over the power of movement and its disruption. The heart of the book then examines the 300-year resistance to this economy, corralling such disparate social struggles as European food riots, Caribbean maroon societies, Atlantic piracy, syndicalism, the New Left, radical feminism and Black Power, into a history of politics as disruption.
  
  The History of Disruption: Social Struggle in the Atlantic World (Verso)
  
  For an overview of kinetic analysis see Mehmet Döşemeci's article in Past and Present, “The Kinetics of Our Discontent”
• Dr. Döşemeci’s previous research explored the ways Turks and Europeans have approached, understood, and reacted to one another over the course of the world's most recent globalization. Dr. Döşemeci has published on various aspects of this entangled history, examining: Turkey's relations with the European Union; development, dependency, and state directed industrialization; Turkish anti-westernism; and Turkey's place in the cold-war Mediterranean. His book, Debating Turkish Modernity: Civilization, Nationalism, and the EEC, was published in 2014 through Cambridge University Press.
• Since 2018, and with the help of 14 wonderful student researchers, Mehmet Döşemeci maintains a website containing historical and contemporary documents of disruptive social struggle. You can check it out at disruptnow.org