Vanessa R. de Obaldía is an Ottomanist for the ERC Starting Grant MAMEMS project at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. She holds a BA in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies from the University of Cambridge, an MA in Islamic Law from Marmara University, and a Graduate Diploma in Law from BPP University. She was awarded a PhD in History by Aix-Marseille University in December 2018 for her thesis titled “A Legal and Historical Study of Latin Catholic Church Properties in Istanbul from the Ottoman Conquest of 1453 until 1740.” Her areas of research include doctrine and practice in Islamic law, historical and contemporary charitable endowments, Muslim-Christian relations, and religious minorities and missionaries in the Ottoman Empire with a particular focus on the Latin Catholic Church.
