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Zeynep Tezer
University of Chicago
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
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ABOUT
PhD Candidate at University of Chicago, History Department Discipline-Region-Period: Social and cultural history of the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Research interests: social marginalization, counter-conduct, group norms, sense of belonging, literary materials as sources for social history
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
Mediterranean Studies
Medieval
Middle East/Near East Studies
Ottoman Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Response To Crises In Pre-modern Ottoman Empire
Mechanisms Of Social Exclusion And Marginalization
Sense Of Belonging And Identity Formation
Languages
English (advanced)
German (advanced)
Turkish (native)
Ottoman (advanced)
Education
MA | 2017 | History | University of Chicago
MA | 2016 | Institute of Oriental Studies | University of Bamberg
BA | 2013 | History | University of Bonn
BS | 2010 | Mathematics | University of Bonn
Abstracts
Beyond Officialdom and Patronage: Alternative Careers and Self‑Fashioning among the Ottoman Educated Elites during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries May a Müftü be Funny? Humor’s Social Function in 17th Century Ottoman Legal Practice