Renée Worringer is a Professor of Islamic & Middle East History at the University of Guelph. Her previous publications include Ottomans imagining Japan: East, Middle East, and Non-Western Modernity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and A Short History of the Ottoman Empire (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020). She is currently working on a book about wolf folklore, sheep, and herding dogs in human history.