İpek Kocaömer Yosmaoğlu is the director of the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program and a historian of the late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey. Prior to joining the History Department at Northwestern she taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton.
Alicen Collum is the program assistant for the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program. She earned her bachelor's degree in Organizational Management from Santa Fe College.