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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
13th-18th Centuries
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Kurdish Studies
Mediterranean Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Modernization
Nationalism
Ottoman Studies
Population Studies
Security Studies
Turkish
Turkish Studies
Turkish Studies
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Anatolia
Balkans
Fertile Crescent
Indian Ocean Region
Kurdistan
Ottoman Empire
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
