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ABOUT
Veysel Simsek teaches Turkish at McGill University. Previously, he taught modern Turkish and Ottoman Turkish in Turkey and Canada. He also has considerable experience with analyzing, translating, and publishing various documents, manuscripts, and printed material in Ottoman Turkish. Prior to his current appointment at McGill’s Institute of Islamic Studies as a course lecturer, he held a Chauncey Postdoctoral Fellowship with Yale’s International Security Studies (2016-18), and served as a postdoctoral research fellow and interim codirector of the Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC) of McGill University (2015-16). His research and teaching interests include political, social, and intellectual history of the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic (c. 1750–1950), and he has taught courses on Ottoman, Middle Eastern and World History at Yale, McMaster, and Bilkent.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
13th-18th Centuries
Kurdish Studies
Arab Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Ottoman Studies
Nationalism
Population Studies
World History
Mediterranean Studies
Modernization
Turkish Studies
Turkish
Security Studies
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Anatolia
Fertile Crescent
Kurdistan
Ottoman Empire
Indian Ocean Region
Balkans
Specialties
Ottoman Political, Social, Military, And Intellectual History
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Arabic (intermediate)
Ottoman (advanced)
Kurmanji (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2015
| History
| McMaster University
MA
| 2005
| History
| Bilkent University
BSc
| 2002
| Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
| Istanbul Technical University
Abstracts
How the “Infidel Sultan” Called his Muslim Subjects to War: Islam, State Discourse, and Organized Violence during the Later Reign of Mahmud II (1826-1839)
Mapping the Turkish Offensive in the War of Independence, August–September 1922
The Ottoman Soldiers Talk: Experiences of Conscripts, Deserters, and Mutineers in the Ottoman Imperial Army, c. 1820-1850
Demobilization of the Ottoman Army, 1918-1919
