Will Smiley

faculty

Will Smiley

Associate Professor
Will Smiley
Contact
William.Smiley@unh.edu
Murkland Hall, Room 320, Durham, NH 03824

Courses Taught

  • HIST/HUMA 547: Russian History
  • HIST/HUMA 563: Intro Russian Culture&Civilztn
  • HUMA 401: Introduction to Humanities
  • HUMA 500: Critical Methods in Humanities
  • HUMA 512C: Modern Humanities
  • HUMA 513C: Global Humanities
  • HUMA 525: Humanities & Law
  • HUMA 700: Seminar
  • IA 501: Global Issues Intrntnl Affairs
  • JUST 701/801: Sen Sem/International Law

Education

  • Ph.D., Middle East Studies, University of Cambridge
  • J.D., Yale Law School
  • M.A., History, University of Utah
  • B.S., History, Hillsdale College
  • B.S., Mathematics, Hillsdale College

Selected Publications

  • Smiley, W. (2023). "So novel in its character from any thing known": Ottoman Antislavery Policy Under Mahmud II?. Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 10(2), 93-116. doi:10.2979/tur.00009

  • Smiley, W. (2022). Rebellion, Sovereignty, and Islamic Law in the Ottoman Age of Revolutions. Law and History Review, 40(2), 229-259. doi:10.1017/s0738248021000535

  • Smiley, W. (2019). The Other Muslim Bans: On the Irrelevance of State Legislation against ‘Islamic
    Law. Harvard Series in Islamic Law Occasional Papers.

  • Smiley, W. (2019). Küçük Kaynarca. In Encyclopaedia of islam, 3rd Ed. (3rd ed.). Brill.

  • Smiley, W. (2018). From Slaves to Prisoners of War The Ottoman Empire, Russia, and International Law. Oxford University Press.

  • Smiley, W. (2018). Lawless Wars of Empire? The International Law of War in the Philippines, 1898–1903. Law and History Review, 36(3), 511-550. doi:10.1017/s0738248017000682

  • Smiley, W. (2016). War without War: The Battle of Navarino, the Ottoman Empire, and the Pacific Blockade. Journal of the History of International Law, 18(1), 42-69. doi:10.1163/15718050-12340051

  • Will Smiley. (2016). Freeing “The Enslaved People of Islam”: The Changing Meaning of Ottoman Subjecthood for Captives in the Russian Empire. Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 3(2), 235. doi:10.2979/jottturstuass.3.2.03

  • Smiley, W. (2014). THE BURDENS OF SUBJECTHOOD: THE OTTOMAN STATE, RUSSIAN FUGITIVES, AND INTERIMPERIAL LAW, 1774–1869. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 46(1), 73-93. doi:10.1017/s0020743813001293

  • Smiley, W. (2012). Let whose people go? Subjecthood, sovereignty, liberation, and legalism in eighteenth-century Russo-Ottoman relations. Turkish Historical Review, 3(2), 196-228. doi:10.1163/18775462x00302006