Assistant Professor Department of History
University of Virginia
Chris Gratien is currently working on a monograph provisionally titled The Mountains Are Ours: the environmental history of a late Ottoman frontier, which explores a century of ecological change in the Cilicia region of the Eastern Mediterranean between the 1850s and 1950s. His broader work examines issues in the social and environmental history of the modern Middle East. He is also producer and co-creator of Ottoman History Podcast, which since 2011 has published interviews with over 300 scholars and researchers about the history of the Ottoman Empire, the modern Middle East, and beyond.