Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
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
13th-18th Centuries
Environment
Historiography
Ottoman Studies
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Istanbul And Edirne As Imperial Cities/Courtly Mobility
Social And Cultural Histories Of Monarchy
Ottoman Dynasty And Urban Space
Languages
Turkish (advanced)
Ottoman (advanced)
Abstracts
Our Heroic Emperors: Heroism, World Order, and the Social History of Monarchy in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1900-1918.
Wayward Itinerancies of an Emperor in Disguise: Writing Ruler and Metropolis in Ottoman Accounts of Sultan Murad IV’s (r. 1623-40) Sojourns through Istanbul
The Refuge of the World and his Animal Kingdom: Justice, Animal Stewardship, and Sultanic Prowess in Ottoman Accounts of Sultan Mehmed IV’s (r. 1648-87) Hunting Expeditions, c. 1670-1715
The Empire Comes to Town: Towards a Social History of Sultan Mehmed IV’s (r. 1648-87) Extended Residence in Ottoman Yenişehir, 1668-69
Something Wicked This Way Comes?: “Outsider” Perspectives on the Violence and Abuses of the Sultan’s Court Out-of-Doors in Seventeenth Century Ottoman Municipalities
“Circles of Life”: Imperial Pregnancies and Deaths as Biological Impacts of Courtly Residence Patterns in Early Modern Ottoman Municipalities
Writing City, Self, and Court in the Abode of the Sultanate: The Diary of Sıdkı Mustafa Efendi as a Source for Istanbul’s Social History of Monarchy in the Eighteenth Century
