Ozan Ozavci (MA, PhD Manchester) has a background in political science, inter- national relations and intellectual history. Ozavci is Assistant Professor of Transimperi- al History at Utrecht University, and associate member at the Centre d’Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques in Paris. To this date, Dr Ozavci has con- ducted research in more than forty archives in Europe, Russia, the United States and the Middle East, which include the archives of major oil companies (e.g. Shell in The Hague), transimperial banks (e.g. the Imperial Ottoman Bank), museums (e.g. The Hermitage in Saint Petersburg) as well as private collections (e.g. Calouste S. Gul- benkian archives in Lisbon). Following the completion of his titled Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864 (Oxford University Press, 2021), he’s currently finalizing his third monograph (provisionally titled The Se- crets of Pera, under contract with Bloomsbury, 2022) that looks into the two Istanbul embassies of the Scottish diplomat Sir Robert Liston. In addition to these, Ozavci is co-convener of the Lausanne Project and the Security History Network.