Fredrick (Walter) Lorenz, Ph.D.

Dr. Lorenz is a historian of Africa and the Middle East, whose research focuses on migration, settler colonialism, and imperialism in the late Ottoman Empire. He is currently working on a book provisionally titled Ottoman Settlerism: Empire, Migration, and Settler Colonialism in Late Ottoman Libya. This book project examines the making of the ‘Second Egypt’ in Ottoman Libya by investigating the roles of migrants, refugees, and exiles in transforming Cyrenaica into a cultivatable and lucrative commercial center along the North African hinterland and Mediterranean coast. This book project is based on his dissertation, which won the 2022 UCLA Lifka Prize for the most outstanding dissertation in the UCLA Department of History.

 He has published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of World History, and Archivum Ottomanicum. His future publications and research agenda reinforce his ongoing initiative to incorporate a transimperial perspective into the historiography of the Global South and consider the voices of migrants, refugees, and historically understudied populations in Africa and the Middle East.

 Dr. Lorenz teaches courses on African History, Middle Eastern History, Ottoman History, World History, and transregional migration and displacement.

• Ph.D., History, University of California, Los Angeles
• M.A., History, Indiana University
• M.A., Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
• B.A., Middle Eastern Studies, Georgia State University

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:

Fredrick Walter Lorenz. "Agents, Ambassadors, and Imams: Ottoman-British Transimperialism in the Cape of Good Hope, 1862-1869." Journal of World History 34, no. 2 (2023): 241-276.

Fredrick Walter Lorenz. '"The Second Egypt': Cretan Refugees. Agricultural Development. and Frontier Expansion in Ottoman Cyrenaica. 1897-1904." International Journal of Middle East Studies 53. no. 1 (2021): 89-105."

Book Reviews:

Henning Sievert, Tripolitanien und Bengasi um 1900: Wissen, Vermittlung und politische Kommunikation. (Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verlagsgesellschat, 2020), Archivum Ottomanicum, ( forthcoming)