Dr Mehmet Dogar

Mehmet Doğar is a BIRI Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the British Institute at Ankara and a Bye-Fellow at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. Within PACE, he serves as a Tutor for the “Fascism in Europe 1918–1945” unit (Undergraduate Certificate in History) and acts as an independent project supervisor for the Advanced Diploma in Research in the Arts and Sciences.

In addition to his teaching at PACE, Mehmet is currently researching the mobility and networks of Italian industrialists in the late Ottoman Empire as part of the British Academy-funded project, “Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions.” He previously completed his PhD in History at Cambridge as a Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholar, where he focused on Turkish-Italian economic and business relations. His broader research interests include the socioeconomic and diplomatic history of the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic; the early twentieth-century Mediterranean history; and the history of Italian Fascism and Italian colonialism.

Having supervised students across various Cambridge colleges on nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and global history, Mehmet is experienced in working with learners from diverse backgrounds. His teaching integrates primary sources, specifically visual materials such as photographs, cartoons, and newsreels. He views the lecture environment as a collaborative space where students can move beyond narrative to critically and analytically engage with the subject matter. He deeply values the dedication of adult learners, seeing education not as a destination, but as a lifelong process of refining how we understand the world around us.