Suphan Kirmizialtin
Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: PhD University of Texas, Austin
Research Areas: Modern Middle East, Late Ottoman Empire, Gender Studies, Digital Humanities
Suphan Kirmizialtin is a historian of the modern Middle East and a digital humanist. Her research examines how digital technologies reshape historical sources, methods, and the production of historical knowledge. Her work combines historical inquiry with computational methods, with particular expertise in automated text recognition, digital corpus creation, and computational text analysis. A key focus of this work is how these methods can make Middle Eastern historical sources more accessible and searchable while enabling new forms of analysis.
Her more recent research extends this work into critical AI studies, examining the assumptions and forms of knowledge embedded in generative AI, as well as their implications for humanities research and education. She is particularly interested in how generative AI technologies affect multilingual texts and writers, the representation of historically under-resourced languages, and the practices through which scholars create, interpret, and assess historical evidence. Her teaching similarly brings together Middle Eastern history, digital humanities, and critical engagement with the pedagogical and methodological implications of AI.