Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Stanford University - Department of History
450 Serra Mall
Building 200
Stanford
CA
94305
United States
ABOUT
Ali Yaycioglu is an historian of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. He was born and raised in Ankara, Turkey. He studied International Relations at the Middle East Technical University, Ottoman History at Bilkent University, and Islamic legal history and Arabic at McGill University. After completing his Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, he carried out a post-doctoral study in Greek and Hellenic Studies at Princeton and joined the History Department at Stanford in 2011. Dr. Yaycioglu is also an associate member of the Centre d'études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques at L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. Dr. Yaycioglu's fields of interest include the transformations of the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the broader context of transition from early-modern to modern world; restructuring of economic and political institutions and ideas, and changes in social and religious life during this transformative time; Ottoman spatiality, spatial imaginations of life, nature and power, and digital geo-spatial analysis; cultural history of Modern Turkey.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
Balkan Studies
Islamic Studies
Ottoman Studies
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Balkans
Ottoman Empire
Syria
Turkey
Languages
Turkish (native)
Arabic (advanced)
Greek (intermediate)
French (advanced)
German (intermediate)
Bulgarian (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2008
| Middle East Studies and History
| Harvard University
Abstracts
Inventories of Death: Politics of Post-Mortem Documentality in the Ottoman Empire
