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Michael Polczynski
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Department of History ICC 600
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
United States
ABOUT
I specialize in early modern Ottoman and East/Central European history. My dissertation was entitled “Wild Fields: Power and Space in the early modern Polish-Lithuanian/Ottoman frontier”. I am now working on the history of early modern Muslim communities living in Christian European polities.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Ottoman Studies
13th-18th Centuries
Central Asian Studies
Balkan Studies
Environment
Turkic Languages
Gender/Women's Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Europe
Balkans
Caucasus
Central Asia
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Ottoman Frontiers In Europe
Muslims Minorities Of Early Modern Christian Europ
Administrative, Cultural History
Languages
Ottoman (intermediate)
Latin (advanced)
Turkish (advanced)
Polish (native)
Russian (intermediate)
Italian (intermediate)
Bosnian (intermediate)
Education
MA | 2010 | Center for Middle Eastern Studies | University of Chicago
DPM | 2007 | Polonistika | Uniwersytet Jagiellonski
BA | 2004 | History & Anthropology | Marquette University
Abstracts
Memâlik-i Mahrûse, Antemurale Christianitatis: The “Well Protected Domains” and the “Bulwark of Christendom” on the Ottoman/Polish-Lithuanian Frontier Steppe as Sea: the Black Sea and the figurative littorals of the deşt-i kıpçak The Risâle-i Tatar-i Leh: Polish-Lithuanian Muslims in the Sublime Porte