Ebru Erginbas is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at Brown University. She holds master’s degrees from Brown University (AM-History) and Providence College (MA-History). She is interested in the history of medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries in the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic. Ebru is studying the transformation from traditional medicine to modern medicine (biomedicine) in the context of modernization and standardization through various actors. One of the main goals of her research is to analyze trans-imperial institutional knowledge transfer through intermediaries, particularly during the transitional period from the empire to the republic.