Theses and Dissertations

List of Master Theses

 

1.   ARI, Bülent.  Conflicts Between the Dutch Merchants and the Ottoman Local Authorities According to the "Felemenk Ahdnâme Defteri" Dated 1091/1680. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık. September 1996.

 

2.   ILICAK, H. Şükrü.  The Question of Reforms in Eastern Anatolia After the Congress of Berlin 1878-1885 (Anadolu Islahatı). Supervisor: Dr. Selçuk Akşin Somel. September 1996.

 

3.   KARADENİZ, Feriha.  Complaints Against the Kâdîs and Abuses of their Authority. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık.  September 1996.

 

4.   ÖKTEN, Ertuğrul.  Ottoman Society and State in the Light of the Fatwas of Ibn Kemal. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık.  September 1996.

 

5.   ŞAHİN, Canay.  A Comparative Study of Sharecropping System Throughout the Ages in the Ottoman Empire. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık.  September 1996.

 

6.   YILMAZ, Fehmi.  The Life of Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Pasha and His Grand Vizierata. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık.  September 1996.

 

7.  DURUKAN, Kaan.  John Whitaker: A Representative of Tory Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Cadoc Douglas Leighton.  March 1997.

 

8.  NORMAN, York.  Reflections of the Çift-Hane System in Medieval Bosnia and Serbia. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık.  March 1997.

 

9. ZORLU, Şefika Akile.  Josiah Tucker: An Eighteenth-Century Pamphleteer. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Cadoc Douglas Leighton.  March 1997.

 

10. ŞEN, Leyla.  Highway Improvement and Agricultural Mechanization: Turkish High Priority Economic Development Projects in the Framework of “Free” World Recovery Program and their Repercussions. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Jonathan Soffer.  June 1997.

 

11. BAŞARAN, Betül.  Reinterpreting American Missionary Presence in the Ottoman Empire: American Schools and the Evolution of Ottoman Educational Policies (1820-1908). Supervisor: Dr. Selçuk Akşin Somel.  August 1997.

 

12. ÇAYKENT, Özlem.  Church in Danger”; The Views of two Eighteenth Century High-Churchmen. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Cadoc Douglas Leighton.  August 1997.

 

13. EMİRALİOĞLU, Mevhibe Pınar.  Ottoman State Intervention in Agriculture: Beginning of Credit Banking Within the Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire. Supervisor: Dr. Selçuk Akşin Somel.  August 1997.

 

14. EREFE, İklil.  Bread and Provisioning in the Ottoman Empire: 1750-1860. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık.  August 1997.

 

15. GÜRSES, Derya.  The Satanic Ingredients in the Seventeenth Century Withcraft Debate. Supervisor: Dr. Paul Latimer.  August 1997.

 

16. YAYCIOĞLU, Ali.  Ottoman Fetvâ.  An Essay on the Legal Consultation (iftâ’) in the Ottoman Empire. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık.  August 1997.

 

17. BULMUŞ, Birsen.  The Agricultural Structure of the Foça Region in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: An Examination of the Çift-Hane System and the big Farms in the Light of the Temettü Defters, 1844-45 (H.1260-61). Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık.  September 1997.

 

18. BURÇAK, Berrak.  The Status of the Elite Muslim Women in Istanbul Under the Reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II (1876-1909). Supervisor: Dr. Selçuk Akşin Somel.  September 1997.

 

19. KOÇ, Şanlı Bahadır.  Noel Buxton: Portrait of a Philantrophist as a Turcophobe. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Cadoc Douglas Leighton.  September 1997.

 

20. ŞENOCAK, Neslihan.  Aspects of Thirteenth Century Franciscan Education with Special Regard to the Province of Anglia. Supervisor: Dr. Paul Latimer.  September 1997.

 

21. TANSUĞ, Feryal.  Musa Kazım’s Approach to Attempts at the Westernization of the Ottoman Empire Before and During the Second Constitutional Period. Supervisor: Dr. Selçuk Akşin Somel.  September 1997.

 

22. DEMİR (KÖSEMAN), Zennure.  The American Perception of the Ottomans in the Nineteenth and the Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Frank Towers.  January 1998.

 

23. YILMAZ, Mehmet Şakir. Political Thought in the Beginning of the Ottoman Empire as Expressed in Ahmed Bin Husameddin Amasi's Kitab-ı Miratu'l-Muluk (1406). Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık.  August 1998.

 

24. ATAÇ, Cemile Akça. The War of Pamphlets (1807-1809): A Significant Crisis Within the Missionary Challenge to the East India Company's Religious Policy of Non-Interference. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Cadoc Douglas Leighton.  September 1998.

 

25. ULUPINAR, Gülben. The Failure of the U.S. Reservation Policy for the Native Americans: The Navajo at Basque Redondo, 1864-68. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Frank Towers. January 1999.

 

26.  ÇORLU,  Aksel Bora.  The Seattle General Strike and the I.W.W.: A Discourse Analysis. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Frank Towers.  August 1999.

 

27.  AKALIN, Kutlu.  Reflections of Power: A Comparative Study of Calolingian and Byzantine Fürstenspiegel. Supervisor: Dr. Eugenia Kermeli.  September 1999.

 

28.  AKKAYA, Tolga.  The Evolution of Money in the Ottoman Empire, 1326-1922. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık.  September 1999.

 

29.  ATABAY, Pırıl.  Philantropy and Race Relations in 1920s Chicago. Supervisor: Dr. Russell Johnson.  September 1999.

 

30.  DEMİR, Burak.  A Land Full of Drink and Drinkers: Aspects of the Wine Trade in Late Twelfth -and Early Thirteenth- Century England. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Paul Latimer.  September 1999.

 

31.  SUNAR, Mehmet Mert.  Tribes and State: Ottoman Centralization in Eastern Anatolia, 1876-1914. Supervisor: Dr. Selçuk Akşin Somel.  September 1999.

 

32.  SAHTİYANCI, Esra.  John Bowles: a Political Commentator in the age of the French Wars. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Cadoc Douglas Leighton.  December 1999.

 

33.  ANTOV, Nikolay.  Aspects of Balkan Islamisation in the light of Petitions for Conversion (Kisve Bahası Arzuhals) (1670-1750). Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Slobodan Ilic.  June 2000.

 

34.  BASKICI, Gonca.  A Life between Piety and Politics: Aziz Mahmûd Hüdâyi (ca. 1543-1628). Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık.  August 2000.

 

35.  AKPINAR, Kürşat Urungu.  İltizam in the Fetvas of Ottoman Şeyhülislams. Supervisor: Dr. Eugenia Kermeli.  September 2000.

 

36.  BAYRAM, Fatih.  Ebûbekir Râtib Efendi as an Ottoman Envoy of Knowledge between the East and the West. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. S. Akşin Somel.  September 2000.

 

37.  GEDELEC, Tebeta Aylin.  Coverage of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement in Time and Newsweek, 1965-71. Supervisor: Dr. Russell L. Johnson.  September 2000.

 

38.  GÜMÜŞ, T. Tolga.  The Ties that Bind…: Patronage and Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Gentry Letter Collections. Supervisor: Dr. David E. Thornton.  September 2000.

 

39.  GÜRSEL, Bahar.  Jefferson’s Republic: The Declaration of Independence, Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom and the University of Virginia. Supervisor: Dr. Russell L. Johnson.  September 2000.

 

40.  TURNA, Boğaç Babür.  Everyday Life in the Ottoman Empire: An Interpretation. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık.  September 2000.

 

41.  TÜRK, Ahmet.  The Crimean Khanate under the Reign of Gazi Giray II. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık.  September 2000.

 

42.  METHODIEVA, Milena.  Pan-Islam, the Porte and Education: Ottoman Support for Muslim Schools in the Bulgarian Principality, 1878-1908. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Slobodan Ilic.  June 2001.

 

43.  ORBAY, Kayhan.  The Financial Administration of an Imperial Waqf in an Age of Crisis: A Case Study of Bâyezîd II’s Waqf in Amasya (1594-1657). Supervisor: Dr. Eugenia Kermeli.  June 2001.

 

44.  AYTEKİN, Erden Attila.  Workers of the Ereğli-Zonguldak Coal Basin, 1848-1922. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. S. Akşin Somel.  July 2001.

 

45.  BEZİKOĞLU, Metin.  The Deterioration of Ottoman Administration in the Light of the Ottoman-Russian War of 1768-1774. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık.  September 2001.

 

46.  ÇALIŞKAN, Mutlu.  An Analysis of African American Intellectuals, 1900-1972. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Russell L. Johnson.  September 2001.

 

47.  DEMİRAJ, Voltisa.  Newman and the Ottoman Turks. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Cadoc D. Leighton.  September 2001.

 

48.  ERTÜRK, Sibel.  An Analysis of African American, Feminist, and Native American Movements in the 1960s and 1970s. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Russell L. Johnson.  September 2001.

 

49.  YILDIRIM, Rıza.  Dervishes in Early Ottoman Society and Politics: A Study of Velayetnames as a Source for History. Supervisor: Dr. Oktay Özel.  September 2001.

 

50.  MERGEN, Nazlı Esim.  The Yaya and Müsellem Corps in the Ottoman Empire (Early Centuries). Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık.  October 2001.

 

51.  ÜSTÜN, Kadir. Rethinking Vaka-i Hayriye (The Auspicious Event): Elimination of the Janissaries on the Path to Modernization. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Selçuk Akşin Somel. June 2002.

 

52.  ÇOLAK, Bahar. Portraits of  Women in the Late Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire     From the Pen of Ahmad Midhat Efendi. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Selçuk Akşin Somel. July, 2002.

 

53.  VORIS, Kirsten Michelle. Classical-Era Ottoman Gardens. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Mehmet Kalpaklı. August 2002.

 

54.  ATÇIL, Abdurrahman. Procedure in the Ottoman Court and the Duties of Kadıs. Supervisor: Dr. Eugenia Kermeli. September 2002.

 

55.  ÇELEBİ, Çağdaş Lara. Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change in Eastern Suffolk, 1066-1166. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Paul Latimer. September 2002.

 

56.  LIAKOPOULOS, Georgios. The Ottoman Conquest of Thrace, Aspects of Historical Geography. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık. September 2002.

 

57.  OLMUŞÇELİK, Olcay. From Obscurity to Sanctity: Continuity and Change in the Lives of St. Dunstan of Canterbury. Supervisor: Dr. David E. Thornton. September 2002.

 

58.  YAVUZ, Muhammet Sait. Ahmet Cevdet Paşa and Islamic Modernism. Supervisor: Prof. Stanford J. Shaw. September 2002.

 

59.  WAWRZYNIAK, Krzysztof.  Ottoman-Polish Diplomatic Relations in the Sixteenth Century. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Oktay Özel. June 2003.

 

60.  ARIOĞUL, İpek.  American Turkish Relations 1945-1960: The Roots of a Long-Term Alliance. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Timothy M. Roberts. September 2003.

 

61.  BAYKAN, Ferişte.  The Annals of Change: A Comparative Study of Two Fourtennth-Century English Chronicles. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. David E. Thornton. September 2003.

 

62.  BOZTAŞ, Özlem.  Empowerment Through Education; Mexican American Agency Measured Through Primary Education in New Mexico, 1846-1920. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Timothy M. Roberts. September 2003.

 

63.  KAYALAR, Anıl.  Struggle over Macedonia: Florina 1906, According to the Records of Rumeli Inspectorship. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Oktay Özel. September 2003.

 

64.  KESKİN, Tülay.  Feminist/Nationalist Discourse in the First Year of the Ottoman Revolutionary Press (1908-1909): Readings from the Magazines of Demet, Mehasin and Kadın (Salonica). Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stanford J. Shaw. September 2003.

 

65.  ÖNCÜ, Edip.  The Beginnings of Ottoman-German Partnership: Diplomatic and Military Relations between Germany and the Ottoman Empire before the First World War. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stanford J. Shaw. September 2003.

 

66.  KILIÇ, Mehmet Fırat.  Sheikh Ubeydullah’s Movement.  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stanford J. Shaw. November 2003.

 

67.  ÇAKIR, Burçin.  Anti-Revolutionary Conspiracy Theory in the Age of the French Revolution: A Historical Context.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Cadoc D. Leighton.  June 2004.

 

68.  MERLİNO, Mark.  The Post-Byzantine Legal Tradition: In Theory and in Practice.  Supervisor: Dr. Eugenia Kermeli.  June 2004.

 

69.  ALTUĞ, Ali Haydar.  Take A Stand with Your Life: Tom Hayden and the Vision and Direction of the Students for a Democratic Society from 1959 to 1965.  Supervisor: Dr. Edward P. Kohn.  September 2004.

 

70.  BOYKOV, Grigor.  Demographic Features of Ottoman Upper Thrace: A Case Study on Filibe, Tatar Pazarcık and İstanimaka (1472-1614).  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık. September 2004.

 

71.  KİPROVSKA, Mariya.  The Military Organization of the Akıncıs in Ottoman Rumelia.  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık. September 2004.

 

72.  LOUPIS, Dimitrios.  Diffusion of Skill in the Mediterranean World: Ottoman Navigational Technology During the 16th Century Seen through Sailing Directions Manuals.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Mehmet Kalpaklı. September 2004.

 

73.  ŞAHİN, Emrah.  Errand into the East: A History of Evangelical American Protestant Missionaries and their Missions to Ottoman Istanbul during the Nineteenth Century.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Timothy M. Roberts. September 2004.

 

74.  TEZCAN, Selim.  Curing the Body, Curing the Society the Miracle Stories of Gregory of Tours in the Service of Ascetical Socio-Moral Reform in Sixth-Century Gaul.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Paul Latimer. September 2004.

 

75.  TOKATLI, Fatih.  The Policy of the Eisenhower Administration Towards Turkey, 1953-1961.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Edward P. Kohn. October 2004.

 

76.  ACEHAN, Işıl.  Outposts of an Empire: Early Turkish Migration to Peabody, Massachusetts. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. John J. Grabowski. May 2005.

 

77.  KAYAOĞLU, Barın.  Bringing Them Together: Turkish-American Relations and Turkish Democracy, 1945-1950. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Edward P. Kohn. May 2005.

  

78.  GÜNDOĞDU, Birol.  The Meanings of Terms Used for the Muslims in the Accounts of the First and Third Crusades. Supervisor: Asst. Prof Paul Latimer. August 2005.

 

79.  BAYRAKTAR, Elif.  The Implementation of Ottoman Religious Policies in Crete 1645-1735: Men of Faith as Actors in the Kadı Court . Supervisor: Dr. Eugenia Kermeli. September 2005.

 

80.  GÜZEL, İlknur.  "Alasse Whatte Truste Ys In This Worlde?” Lancastranian and Yorkist History Writing in an English Chronicle. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. David Thornton. September 2005.

 

81.  İŞYAR, Levent.  Containing Tito: U.S. and Soviet Policies Towards Yugoslavia and the Balkans. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Edward P. Kohn. September 2005.

 

82.  KOCABIYIKOĞLU ÇEÇEN, Zeynep.  Crusade Images in Eighteenth-Century British Histories. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Cadoc Douglas A. Leighton. September 2005.

 

83.  SOYUDOĞAN, Muhsin.  Tribal Banditry in Ottoman Ayntab (1690-1730).  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Oktay Özel. September 2005.

 

84.  ŞİMŞEK, Veysel.  Ottoman Military Recruitment and the Recruit: 1826-1853.  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stanford J. Shaw. September 2005.

 

85.  GÜRKAN, Emrah Safa.  Ottoman Corsairs in the Western Mediterranean and their Place in the Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry (1505-1535).  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık. June 2006.

 

86.  EKİNCİ, Mehmet Uğur.  The Origins of the 1897 Ottoman-Greek War: A Diplomatic History.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Mehmet Kalpaklı. July 2006.

 

87.  OCAKLI, Nuray.  Demographic Structure and Settlement Patterns of North-Eastern Bulgaria: A Case Study on Niğbolu Sandjak (1479-1483).  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık. July 2006.

 

88.  DEMİRAKIN, N. Işık.  A Study of Ottoman Modernization on the City: The Sixth Municipal District of Istanbul (1858-1877).  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Oktay Özel. September 2006.

 

89.  KAYA, Mustafa İsmail.  Shops and Shopkeepers in the Istanbul İhtisâb Register of 1092/1681.  Supervisor: Prof. Halil İnalcık. September 2006.

 

90.  ÖNER, Sera.  Labor in the U.S. Foreign Policy During Early Cold War: The Marshall Plan and American-Turkish Labor Relations, 1945-1955.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Edward Kohn. September 2006.

 

91.  SAFİ, Polat.  The Ottoman Special Organization-Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa: A Historical Assessment with Particular Reference to its Operations against British Occupied Egypt (1914-1916).  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Oktay Özel. September 2006.

 

92.  TOKAY, Melike.  American Women’s Foreign Mission Movement: “Cooperation of Eve with the Redeemer” in Evangelical Missions.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Timothy Roberts. September 2006.

 

93.  YENİ, Harun.  Demography and Settlement in Paşa Sancağı Sol-Kol Region According to Muhasebe-i Vilayet-i Rumeli Defteri Dated 1530.  Supervisor: Prof. Halil İnalcık. September 2006.

 

94.  ÇELİK, Mehmet.  Tanzimat in the Balkans: Midhat Pasha's Governorship in the Danube Province (Tuna Vilayeti), 1864-1868.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Evgeni Radushev. June 2007.

 

95.  DUMLU, Derya.  The Devil's Blessing: Harry Truman and International Control of the Atomic Bomb, September 1945-June 1946.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Edward Kohn. June 2007.

 

96.  ERKOÇ, Seda.  To One Shut in from One Shut Out: Anchoritic Rules in England from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Paul Latimer. July 2007.

 

97.  MERCAN, F. Özden.  In Muliere Exhibeas Virum”: Women, Power and Authority in Early Twelfth Century Anglo-Norman Chronicles. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Paul Latimer. July 2007.

 

98.  BOYACIOĞLU, Elif.  The Demise of the Walking Dead: The Rise of Purgatory and the End of Revenancy.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Paul Latimer. September 2007.

 

99.  BÖLÜCEK, Cemal Alpgiray.  Politics, Scholarship and Dynastic History: The Debate between Thomas Ruddiman and George Logan. Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cadoc D. A. Leighton. September 2007.

 

100.          DURGUN, Fatih.  Enlightenment and Reformation in the Historical Writings of Thomas M’Crie.  Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Cadoc D. A. Leighton. September 2007.

 

101.          ENACAR, Ekin.  Education, Nationalism and Gender in the Young Turk Era (1908-1918).  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Özer Ergenç.  September 2007.

 

102.          KURSAR, Vjeran.  Legal Studies of Ottoman Non-Muslims in Bosnia (1463-1699): A Case Study.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Evgeni Radushev.  September 2007.

 

103.          MURGUL, Yalçın.  Baku Expedition of 1917-1918: A study of the Ottoman Policy Towards the Caucasus.  Supervisor:  Asst. Prof. Oktay Özel.  September 2007.

 

104.          ÖZDEMİR, Muhammed Burak.  History, Presbyterianism and the Confessional State: David Calderwood and his Writings in the Post-Reformation Scotland. Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Cadoc D.A. Leighton.  September 2007.

 

105.          DEMİR, İlker.  Tepedenli Ali Pasha and the West: A History of his Relations with France and Great Britain 1798-1820.  Supervisor: Dr. Eugenia Kermeli. December 2007.

 

106.          KARADEMİR, Ekrem.  Between Stumbling and Fall towards Insolvency: The Endeavors of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th Century.  Supervisor: Dr. Eugenia Kermeli. December 2007.

 

107.          YILMAZ, Yasir.  An Ottoman Peace Attempt at the Habsburg Court during the Ottoman-Holy League War: Zülfikâr Efendi in Vienna, 1688-1693.  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık. January 2008.

 

108.          GÜRBÜZEL, S. Aslıhan.  Hamidian Policy in Eastern Anatolia (1878-1890).  Supervisor:  Asst. Prof. Oktay Özel.  July 2008.

 

109.          YASLIÇİMEN, Faruk.  Sunnism Versus Shi’ism? Rise of the Shi’i Politics and of the Ottoman Apprehension in Late Nineteenth Century Iraq.  Supervisor:  Asst. Prof. Oktay Özel.  July 2008.

 

110.          ARPACI, Fulya.  Tares Among the Wheat’: Early Modern English Witchcraft in its Socio-Cultural and Religious Context.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. David E. Thornton. September 2008.

 

111.          ÇOLAK, Hasan.  Co-existence and Conflict between Muslims and Non-Muslims in the 16th Century Ottoman Istanbul.  Supervisor: Dr. Eugenia Kermeli. September 2008.

 

112.          KESKİN, Ayşegül.  The Late Twelfth-Century Knightly Ethic in North-Western Europe in Life and in Literature.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Paul Latimer. September 2008.

 

113.          NAZLAR, Nergiz.  The Image of the other in the Fifteenth-Century Christian and Muslim Hagiographies.  Supervisor: Dr. Eugenia Kermeli. September 2008.

 

114.          ÖZDEMİR, Fatma Doğuş.  Red, White and Black: Anti-Communism, Massive Resistance, and the Case of Orval Faubus.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Edward P. Kohn. September 2008.

 

115.          GERDAN WILLIAMS, Zeynep. Triumph of Commercialism: The Commodification of the Middle Eastern Exotica at the World's Columbia Exposition of 1893.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Edward P. Kohn. September 2008.

 

116.          MARIEN, Gisele.  The Black Death in Early Ottoman Territories: 1347-1550.  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık.  May 2009.

 

117.          TORUNOĞLU, Berke.  Murder in Salonika, 1876: A Tale of Apostasy Turned into an International Crisis.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Evgeni Radushev.  June 2009.

 

118.          ÇALIŞIR, Muhammed Fatih.  War and Peace in the Frontier: Ottoman Rule in the Uyvar Province, 1663-1685.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Evgeni Radushev.  July 2009.

 

119.          ŞENKOL, Gülşah.  Jane Addams: An Alchemist Synthesizing the Identity of the Immigrants in Hull House Neighborhood (1889-1930).  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Edward P. Kohn.  July 2009.

 

120.          KAŞOTURACAK, Gizem.  Dergâh-ı Abdal Musa: A Heterodox Dervish Tekke between the State and the People.  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Özer Ergenç.  August 2009.

 

121.          AVCI, Ayşegül.  American Propaganda in Turkey as Economic Military and Cultural Warfare Against Germany During the Second World War.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Edward P. Kohn. September 2009.

 

122.          MAĞILTAŞ, Naile.  Acta Est Fabula, Plaudite!” The Role of Women in Late Medieval England: The Evidence from Wills.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. David E. Thornton. September 2009.

 

123.          OTMAN, Elvin.  The Role of Alvise Gritti within the Ottoman Politics in the Context of the “Hungarian Question” (1526-1534).  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Mehmet Kalpaklı. September 2009.

 

 

 

 

List of PhD Dissertations

 

1.      ŞENOCAK, Neslihan.  The Letter Kills, But the Spirit Gives Life”: The Rise of Learning in the Franciscan Order, 1210-1310. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Paul Latimer.  September 2001.

 

2.      EGRO, Dritan. Islam in Albanian Lands During the First Two Centuries of the Ottoman Rule. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık. January 2003.

 

3.      ŞEN, Leyla.The US Foreign Aid Policy and the Institutionalization of Dependency in the Periphery in the Post-WW2 Era: Turkey and India Compared: 1947-1973. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Oktay Özel. February 2003.

 

4.      ŞAHİN, Canay.  The Rise and Fall of an Ayân Family in Eighteenth Century Anatolia: The Caniklizâdes (1737-1808). Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Oktay Özel. April 2003.

 

5.      AKKAYA, Tolga.  Money and Its Use in the Ottoman Empire During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık. September 2003.

 

6.      ÇAYKENT, Özlem.  The History of John Galt: Past and Present in the Wake of the Enlightenment. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Cadoc D. A. Leighton.  September 2003.

 

7.      ARI, Bülent.  The First Dutch Ambassador in Istanbul: Cornelis Haga and the Dutch Capitulations of 1612.  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık. December 2003.

 

8.      GÜRSES, Derya. Paradigm Regained the Hutchinsonian Reconstruction of Trinitarian Protestant Christianity (1724-1806).  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Cadoc D. A. Leighton.  December 2003.

 

9.      NYKIEL, Deita.  Family and Estate: The Slupica Family and Kuna 1930’s-1940’s: A Case Study on the Ruthenian Nobility.  Supervisor: Dr. Eugenia Kermeli. March 2005.

 

10.  ATAÇ, Cemile Akça.  British Philosophical History and the Empires of Antiquity.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Cadoc D. A. Leighton. September 2006.

 

11.  YILMAZ, Mehmet Şakir.  Koca Nişancı” of Kanuni: Celalzade Mustafa Çelebi, Bureaucracy and “Kanun” in the Reign of Süleyman the Magnificient (1520-1566).  Supervisor: Prof. Halil İnalcık. September 2006.

 

12.  GÜRSEL, Bahar.  Friendship, Crisis and Estrangement: U.S.-Italian Relations, 1871-1920.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Timothy M. Roberts.  March 2007.

 

13.  GÜMÜŞ, T. Tolga.  Court, Chivalry and Politics: Nominations and Elections to the Order of the Garter: 1461-83.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. David E. Thornton. April 2007.

 

14.  ZARDYKHAN, Zharmukhamed.  Depicting the Enemy: Russians and Ottomans in the Press During the First World War.  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Oktay Özel. September 2007.

 

15.  DEMİRCİ, Tuba.  Body, Disease & Late Ottoman Literature: Debates on Ottoman Muslim Family in the Tanzimat Period (1839-1908).  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Oktay Özel.  February 2008.

 

16.  YILDIRIM, Rıza.  Turkomans between Two Empires: The Origins of the Qizilbash Identity in Anatolia (1447-1514).  Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Oktay Özel.  February 2008.

 

17.  BAYRAM, Fatih.  Zâviye-Khankâhs and Religious Orders in the Province of Karaman: The Seljukid, Karamanoğlu and the Ottoman Periods, 1200-1512.  Supervisor: Prof. Halil İnalcık. September 2008.

 

A digital copy of the MA. theses (from 2005 onwards) and PhD. dissertations (from 2006 onwards) can be reached through the online catalog search pages of Bilkent University Library unless a reserve is put by the author.

 

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