Aytek Soner Alpan is a historian with a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). His research focuses on the 1923 Greco-Turkish Population Exchange, forced displacement and refugee experience, Turcophone Orthodox communities in the Ottoman Empire and Greece, history and memory, and historiography. His work has appeared in several peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. He is the co-editor of Μουχατζηρναμέ / Muhacirname: Poetry’s Voice for the Karamanlidhes Refugees and the author of The Tatavla Fire in 1929 and the Salvation of Tatavla (in Turkish). In 2023–24, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University. He is currently a part-time instructor in the Department of Economics at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, where he teaches economic history.