Nathalie CLAYER is a historian, professor at the EHESS and a senior research fellow at the CNRS 
(Paris). She is the head of CETOBaC (Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian studies).  Her main research interests include religion, nationalism and state-building process in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman space, generally focusing on the Albanian space, but also more generally on the Balkans and Turkey.