Enno Maessen is assistant professor of History and PPE at Utrecht University. He is interested in urban and diplomatic history, modern Turkey, the Mediterranean region, social movements and politics of representation. He defended his PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 2019. During his MA and PhD, he was a visiting student at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul twice in 2011 and 2016. His book on post-1950s urban change and social institutions in Beyoğlu, Istanbul is out in English (Representing Modern Istanbul, I.B. Tauris) and Turkish (Modern İstanbul’un Yeniden Temsili, Alfa).
He is co-founder of the Turkey Studies Network in the Low Countries, an academic platform for scholars working on Turkey and the Ottoman Empire in the Netherlands and Belgium. Currently, he is also a board member for the Netherlands Institute in Turkey and Netherlands Institute for the Near East.
In 2026 he initiated ‘The Mediterranean’, a podcast on the Mediterranean region in all its facets.
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