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Christopher Whitehead
Ohio State University
Occupation
Other
Contact
3535 81st Ave. SW
Olympia WA 98512
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Ottoman Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
13th-18th Centuries
Islamic Thought
Historiography
State Formation
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Anatolia
Balkans
Europe
Islamic World
Ottoman Empire
Syria
Specialties
Historiography Of Ottoman Politics In The Latter S
Languages
Hungarian (advanced)
French (advanced)
Turkish (fluent)
German (advanced)
English (native)
Ottoman (advanced)
Arabic (advanced)
Persian (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2023 | History | Ohio State University
BA | 2014 | History | SUNY Albany
Abstracts
The Ottoman Army in Transition: Lessons from Seventeenth-Century Cavalry Salary Registers Taking the Empire by Force: The Ottoman Household Cavalry’s “Usurpation” of Tax Collection in the Early Seventeenth Century The Career of Customs Officer Hasan Agha as a Financier for the Ottoman State (1646–56) “Nothing Can Be Acquired Without Money”: The Purchase of Office and “Backroom” Tax Farming in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire