I am a historian of the Ottoman Empire whose interests lie at the intersection between urban history and the social and cultural histories of monarchy. While my central focus is the Ottoman world (circa 1300-1922) and the Ottoman dynasty (“The House of Osman”), my work is more generally concerned with the ways that the presence of dynastic institutions coloured the experiences and worldviews of persons who inhabited imperial domains. At present, my main research concerns the character of the mobility of the Ottoman court in the period c. 1650-1750 and on the social, cultural, economic, demographic, biological, and environmental effects of the inter and intra-urban movements of its court society between and within the multiple “throne cities” of the empire (Istanbul, Edirne, etc.) as well as a network of intermediary locales in Western Anatolia and Thrace.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Ottoman Studies
Historiography
13th-18th Centuries
Urban Studies
Environment
Geographic Areas of Interest
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Istanbul And Edirne As Imperial Cities/Courtly Mobility