Deren Ertaş

Ms. Ertaş is a Turkish-American writer and researcher. She is a PhD Candidate in the joint History and Middle Eastern Studies program at Harvard University. Her dissertation project examines the mining economy and ecologies of the Ottoman Empire in the long eighteenth century, with a particular focus on how mining shaped state-formation in this period. She received her MA in Historical Studies from the New School for Social Research (2019) and her BA in the College of Social Studies from Wesleyan University (2016). She has served on the editorial board of Barricade: A Journal of Antifascism and Translation. Her broader academic interests include the intersections of ecology and economy, labor history, and the history of economic thought.