Nazım is a PhD candidate in the Combined Program in Classics and History at Yale University. He has BA and MA degrees from Boğaziçi University. His dissertation project is entitled “Historical Nature: Representation of the Physical Environment in Classical Greek Historiography”. It examines how Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon negotiate the causal ambiguities of weather behavior, animal activity, and landscape transformation to bolster their moral and political assumptions. In his dissertation, he pursues a multidisciplinary dialogue with recent anthropological theories about perceptions of the natural world. Other than historiography, he is interested in ancient Greek religion and epigraphy.
Nazım’s paper “Nature and God in Herodotus” won the 2024 Doris Post Essay Prize and will be published in the journal Syllogos.
In 2024-25, he is in residence at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens as the Eugene Vanderpool Fellow.