Graduate Student
Biography
completed her B.A. in history at the University of Puget Sound in 2014. She is the author of Coffee and the Ottoman Social Sphere, published in 2013. Marita focuses on Arabic, Turkish, and Ottoman Turkish and plans to continue learning Farsi and German. She is interested in Middle Eastern food history, particularly the relationship between coffee and social interaction within the Ottoman, Mamluk, and Safavid empires. Marita plans to earn her PhD at the University of Washington in Middle Eastern food history.