Jennifer Poliakov

I am currently studying in a direct Ph.D. track at the School of Historical Studies at Tel-Aviv University, under the auspices of Dr. Miri Shefer-Mossensohn. My research focuses on Slavic slavery in the Ottoman Empire in the 16th-18th centuries, and particularly on the enslavement and trade of fair-skinned villagers from Russia, Poland, and the Ukraine, who were brought to slave markets in the Crimean peninsula and subsequently sold at the slave markets across the Ottoman Empire.