Morisco Plantations and the Politics of Resettlement: Agricultural Settlements in Ottoman Tunisia and Algiers

Farah Bazzi (Stanford University) will give a talk titled Morisco Plantations and the Politics of Resettlement: Agricultural Settlements in Ottoman Tunisia and Algiers.

Farah Bazzi is a Ph.D. candidate in early modern global history at Stanford University. Her research explores the intersections of environmental thought, race, human mobility, and settlement practices, with a focus on the expulsion of the Moriscos and their socio-environmental impact across the Americas, Morocco, and the Ottoman Empire. She investigates how Al-Andalus was conceptualized as a racialized and transplantable landscape in Spanish, Arabic, and Ottoman sources. Born in Lebanon and raised in the Netherlands, Farah holds an M.A. in Social Sciences (History) from the University of Chicago and an MRes in Middle Eastern Studies from Leiden University, where she also earned B.A. degrees in Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science. Her work spans Ottoman, Iberian, and Mediterranean history, as well as Islamic studies and environmental history. Her scholarship has been supported by the ARIT Research Fellowship, the Fulbright Program, and multiple academic grants.