Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky is a Ph.D. candidate in modern Middle Eastern and Ottoman history. His work focuses on refugee migration and resettlement in the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant prior to World War I. In 2017-18, he serves as a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow.

Vladimir's dissertation, titled Refugees and Empires: North Caucasus Muslims Between the Ottoman and Russian Worlds, 1864-1914, examines how Muslim refugees from Russia transformed the late Ottoman Empire. By examining the political economy of resettlement and refugees' mobility within the Ottoman Empire and between the Ottoman and Russian states, it constitutes a bottom-up history of refugee migration.

Vladimir conducted archival research in Turkey, Jordan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Azerbaijan, the United Kingdom, and Russia, including the North Caucasus autonomous republics of Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia-Alania, and Daghestan. His research has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, the American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR), and the American Research Center in Sofia (ARCS).

Vladimir received a broad training in working with different types of archival sources. He utilizes archival materials in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Russian, Bulgarian, and French. In Ottoman archives, preserved in Istanbul, Sofia, and Amman, he worked with land, tax, and population registers and court records. In tsarist archives, scattered from Moscow to Tbilisi and Baku, he accessed police records and reports by border authorities. He prioritizes documents produced by refugees themselves, such as individual and communal petitions, and newspaper editorials. During his fieldwork, which included work in private family archives and oral history, he collected a number of rare private letters exchanged by North Caucasus refugees across the Russo-Ottoman frontier.

Vladimir's previous work explored the Syrian-Russian relations in the aftermath of the Cold War; Anglican and Orthodox missionary education in late Ottoman Palestine, particularly in Nazareth and Jerusalem; and the expansion of the global quarantine system in the mid-nineteenth century, including the adoption of public health and quarantine measures in the Eastern Mediterranean ports by the Ottoman and Egyptian governments. Prior to graduate study at Stanford, Vladimir lived and studied in Syria, Egypt, and Israel.

In Spring 2016, Vladimir offered a Sources and Methods course Refugees of Palestine and Syria: History, Identity, and Politics of Exile in the Middle East. He also serves as a graduate teaching consultant in the Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning. Vladimir's commitment to undergraduate teaching was recognized by a 2016 Centennial Teaching Assistant Award.

In his spare time, Vladimir enjoys hiking, dabbles in numismatics, and has a soft spot for traveling to unrecognized republics.