Yuanhao Zou

Yuanhao Zou is a PhD student specializing in the history of the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East. His research interests include Ottoman history, Middle East history, Late Imperial Chinese history, material history, and global history. He intends to work with written sources in multiple languages as well as material sources to explore relevant topics.  

He graduated from Carleton college in 2022 majoring in history and math. Upon graduation, he was awarded the Watson fellowship through which he spent a year traveling and studying folk music traditions and minority languages in the Caucasus, Northwest Africa, the Balkans, Mainland Southeast Asia, China, and Japan.