# Section III: Chapter 11  
Özgül ÖZDEMIR completed her M.A. thesis on the life histories of enslaved Africans in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. She studied slavery in the oftenoverlooked intersection of Ottoman and African history. Her work on the Transnational, International, Global History track examines how slavery and abolition pitted regional and imperial powers against each other in the Red Sea region, and thus shaped the histories of the region as well as the lives of enslaved and manumitted Africans.