Expertise

Keywords:

  • 1350 to 1800
  • Middle Eastern History
  • Russian and Eastern European History
  • Empire and Colonialism

Research Interests:

  • The institutional and ideological aspects of Ottoman imperial governance
  • Comparative studies of early modern Eurasian empires
  • Ottoman and modern Turkish historiography
  • The Ottoman-Safavid rivalry
  • Inter-cultural and inter-religious exchanges in early modern Eurasia
  • The emergence of new publics and political rituals in the late medieval and early modern periods

I am a historian of the early modern Ottoman Empire, with a particular interest in history writing, governance, religious/confessional identity, and ceremonies and rituals. 

I am a historian of the early modern Ottoman Empire, with a particular interest in history writing, governance, religious/confessional identity, and the construction of discourses/fictions around the question of what it meant to be an Ottoman.

My first book revolves around the life and writings of an Ottoman career bureaucrat, Celalzade Mustafa (ca. 1490-1567), and discusses the rise of a new Ottoman bureaucracy, the emergence of a new historical consciousness, and the creation of an Ottoman imperial culture that saw itself in direct competition with the Habsburgs and the Safavids.


Areas:

  • Institutional and ideological foundations of the Ottoman imperial praxis; comparative studies of early modern Eurasian empires; Ottoman and modern Turkish historiography; the Ottoman-Safavid rivalry; inter-cultural and inter-religious exchanges in early modern Eurasia
Communities
Middle Eastern Studies, History
Degrees
PhD, University of Chicago, History, 2007