Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky is a historian of global migration and forced displacement and faculty in Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research examines Muslim refugee migration and its role in shaping the modern world. He is the author of Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024). Vladimir is currently working on a transnational history of hijra, or Muslim refugee migration, in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia since the nineteenth century. His articles appeared in Past & Present, Comparative Studies in Society and History, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Slavic Review, and Kritika. He received a Ph.D. in History from Stanford University and served as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University.