Julia Phillips Cohen

Julia Phillips Cohen is an American historian specializing in Ottoman and Sephardic Jewish history. She is a professor at Vanderbilt University and focuses her research on the experiences of Jewish communities in the Ottoman Empire. Her notable work *Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era* (2014) examines how Sephardic Jews navigated citizenship and identity in the transforming Ottoman state during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Cohen's scholarship explores themes of migration, belonging, and the intersection of religious and national identities in the Mediterranean world. Her work combines rigorous archival research with accessible narrative, contributing significantly to understanding Jewish diaspora history and Ottoman modernization.