Notes on Contributors
Ali Atabey
Ph.D. (2019), University of Arizona, is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He specializes in early modern Ottoman social history and is currently working on a monograph, tentatively titled Boundaries Drawn and Crossed: Negotiating Identity, Religion, and Space in Seventeenth-Century Galata.
Serpil Atamaz
Ph.D. (2010), University of Arizona, is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento. She has published several book chapters and journal articles on women, revolution, and war in the late Ottoman Empire and on Ottoman and Iranian constitutionalists. She is currently working on a book on sexual violence against women in the early Turkish Republic.
Lee André Beaudoen
Ph.D. (2017), UCLA, has most recently taught at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, Hungary as a professor of Mediterranean, Middle East, and global history in the Armenian Studies Department and Institute of History. He is currently revising his dissertation for academic publication.
Richard M. Eaton
Ph.D. (1972), University of Wisconsin, is Professor of History at the University of Arizona. Monographs include Sufis of Bijapur (Princeton, 1978), The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier (Berkeley, 1993), Social History of the Deccan: Eight Indian Lives (Cambridge, 2005), Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India’s Deccan Plateau (Oxford, 2016), India in the Persianate Age, 1000– 1765 (Penguin, 2019).
Emine Evered
Ph.D. (2005), University of Arizona, is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. Specializing in late Ottoman and republican Turkey, her research explores education, public health, and intoxicants. Recent publication is Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity (University of Texas Press, forthcoming – Fall 2024).
Kyle T. Evered
Ph.D. (2003), University of Oregon, is Associate Professor of Geography at Michigan State University. His publications include works on the cultural, historical and political geographies and cultural ecologies of Turkey and neighboring states. Recent research concerns geographies of the opium poppy, health and wellbeing, and identity-place constructs.
Ziad Fahmy
Ph.D. (2007), University of Arizona, is Professor of Middle East History at Cornell University. He is the author of Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2020) and Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture (Stanford University Press, 2011).
Gülsüm Gürbüz Küçüksarı
Ph.D. (2016), University of Arizona, teaches in the Department of Critical Race, Gender and Culture at American University, D.C. She has authored publications on diverse subjects such as religious nationalism, Kurdish history, American Islamic identity, and history education in the US. Among her most recent works is the co-authored publication “Whose Stories Do We Tell?: Resources for Critical Histories in Elementary Social Studies Curriculum,” featured in “Multicultural Curriculum Transformation in Social Studies and Civic Education.” (Lexington Books, 2021)
Onur İnal
Ph.D. (2015), University of Arizona, is an urban and environmental historian based at the University of Vienna, Austria. He is the author of Gateway to the Mediterranean: An Environmental History of Ottoman Izmir (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) and co-editor of Seeds of Power: Explorations in Ottoman Environmental History (White Horse Press, 2019) and Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey: Landscapes, State and Environmental Movements (Routledge, 2019).
Christine Isom-Verhaaren
Ph.D (1997), University of Chicago, is a professor of Ottoman History at Brigham Young University. She has published Allies with the Infidel (IB Tauris, 2011), Living in the Ottoman Realm (Indiana, 2016), and The Sultan’s Fleet (IB Tauris 2021).
Myrsini Manney-Kalogera
is a Ph.D. candidate in the History department at the University of Arizona. Her dissertation examines the patronage networks underpinning the development of Greek schools in the eighteenth-century Ottoman empire. She holds an MA from SOAS, University of London (2017) and a BA from Columbia University (2013).
Claudia Römer
Ph.D. (1980), University of Vienna, is Associate Professor (retired) at that University. She has published Ottoman documents and other monographs as well as many articles on Ottoman Diplomatic, Ottoman Social and Economic History, and Ottoman linguistics, including The Sea in Comparisons and Metaphors in Ottoman Historiography in the 16th Century, in: The Ottomans and the Sea, Oriente Moderno XX (LXXXI), n.s. 1–2001, 233–244.
Alexander Schweig
Ph.D. (2019), University of Arizona, is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on the intersections between social, technological, medical, and environmental history. His most recent article is “Progressing into Disaster: The Railroad and the Spread of Cholera in a Provincial Ottoman Town,” published in History of Science.
Gül Şen
(Ph.D. 2012, Habil. 2021), University of Bonn, is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Studies at the University of Bonn. She has published a number of books and articles on early-modern Ottoman history and historiography, including Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Naʿīmā (Brill 2022).
Baki Tezcan
Ph.D. (2001), Princeton University, is Professor of History at University of California, Davis. He is the author of The Second Ottoman Empire: Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World (Cambridge, 2010), and many articles and book chapters on Islam, Ottoman history, and Ottoman and Turkish historiography.
Fariba Zarinebaf
Ph.D. (1991), University of Chicago, is a Professor of Middle Eastern History at UC Riverside. She is an urban, social and gender historian of the Ottoman Empire and Iran and the author of Crime and Punishment in Istanbul, 1700–1800 (UC Press, 2010) and Mediterranean Encounters, Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata (UC Press, 2018). Her next book is tentatively titled, The Last of Silk Caravans, Cross-Cultural Trade, Urban Life and Warfare on the Ottoman- Safavid Borderland in the Early Modern Period.