Vanessa de Obaldia
Vanessa de Obaldia
PhD in History, Aix-Marseille University•Middle Eastern and Ottoman Studies
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Vanessa R. de Obaldía is an Arabist and Ottomanist with a multidisciplinary background in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Law, and Ottoman History. She was awarded a BA in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies from the University of Cambridge (2009); an MA in Islamic Law from Marmara University (2014); a Graduate Diploma in Law from BPP University (2017); and a Ph.D. in History from Aix-Marseille University (2018) with a thesis about an historical and legal study of Ottoman Istanbul’s Latin Catholic Church. Her research explores religious minorities with a particular focus on ecclesiastical and monastic archival collections, multireligious relations, and religious and cultural heritage.

Edited volumes: 

  1. Vanessa R. de Obaldía & Damien Dessane (eds.). Un Coin du Bosphore pendant la première période de la guerre européenne. Novembre 1914 – Juin 1915. Journal de guerre et Correspondance de E. Guwy - Prêtre de la Mission. Istanbul : Les Éditions Isis, 2023.
  2. Vanessa R. de Obaldía (prep. and ed.) & Doğan Bermek (prep.). The Conversion of Spaces and Places of Worship in Anatolia. International Conference Proceedings, 10-11 April 2021. Istanbul: Alevi Düşünce Ocağı, 2022.
  3. Vanessa R. de Obaldía & Claudio Monge (eds.). Latin Catholicism in Ottoman Istanbul: Properties, People and Missions. Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2022.

 

Recently published articles include:

  1. “Panagia Portaïtissa of Kydoniess / Ayvalık: the Consequences of the 1923 Population Exchange for a metochion of the Athonite Monastery of Iveron,” Cahiers Balkaniques 51. Les héritages du traité de Lausanne en Grèce et en Turquie II (2025): 103-128; 
  2. “Archival Treasures of the Holy Mountain: Interpreting Ottoman Documents as Sources of Athonite Wealth,” in Zachary Chitwood (ed.) Medieval Mount Athos between Wealth and Poverty. Series: The Medieval Mediterranean Vol. 142 (Leiden: Brill, 2024), 216-237;
  3. [Co-authored with Maciej Pawlikowski] “Athos’ Endangered Archives: The Preservation of Simonopetra’s Ottoman Collection through Digitisation and Cataloguing.” Documentation of Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage, edited by Efstratios Stylianidis and Aikaterini Stamou, 147-153. Thessaloniki: Disigma Publications, 2024.

Ottoman History, Middles Eastern Studies, Islamic Studies, Religious Minorities.

Jordan, Syria, Turkey