Murat Bozluolcay successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, “Coalescence of the Empire: Administration of the Provincial Economy in Ottoman Damascus, 1820–1860,” at his Final Public Oral Examination held on Monday, June 12, 2023. The examination committee consisted of his advisor Max Weiss (History), Marina Rustow (NES), Nora Elizabeth Barakat (Stanford University), and Stefan Winter Université du Québec à Montréal).