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Ottoman History |
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FACULTY |



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In memory of Prof. STANFORD J. SHAW who taught at our department between 1999-2006 |






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HALİL İNALCIK, Professor, Founder of the Department
He received his Ph.D. from Ankara University. Prior to joining Bilkent University, Professor İnalcık taught at Ankara University, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Princeton University, and the University of Pennsylvania. He is an expert on classical Ottoman economic, social, and institutional history. Professor İnalcık has published more than 200 scholarly articles and numerous books.
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Office phone: (+90) 312 290 2207 e-mail: inalcik@bilkent.edu.tr |
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MEHMET KALPAKLI, Assistant Professor, Chair
He earned his Ph.D. in Turkish Literature from the University of Washington and Istanbul University in 1992. He specializes in Ottoman literature and cultural history, Near Eastern languages and literatures, modern Turkish literature, theory of literature and the use of computers for humanities. He is a co-founder and active participant in Ottoman Text Editing Project (OTAP) at the Middle East Center of the University of Washington. |
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Office phone: (+90) 312 290 2386 e-mail: kalpakli@bilkent.edu.tr |
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ÖZER ERGENÇ, Professor
He received his Ph.D. from Ankara University in 1974, with a thesis entitled "1588-1596 Yılları Arasında Ankara ve Konya Şehirlerinin Mukayeseli İncelenmesi Yoluyla Osmanlı Şehir Müesseseleri ve Sosyo-Ekonomik Yapısı Üzerinde Bir Deneme" (A Research on Ottoman Urban Institutions and their Socio-Economic Structures via a Comparison between Ankara and Konya in between 1588-1596). Prior to joining Bilkent University, Prof. Ergenç taught at Ankara University. He is a member of Turkish Historical Society (Türk Tarih Kurumu), History Foundation (Tarih Vakfı) and of TÜBİTAK, SOBAG (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Group). He is currently working on TÜSOKTAR (A Database Preparation on Social, Economic and Cultural History of Turkey) Project of Turkish Historical Society. |
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Office phone: (+90) 312 290 1633 e-mail: oergenc@bilkent.edu.tr |
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EVGENI R. RADUSHEV, Visiting Professor
He received his Ph.D. in Ottoman socioeconomic history from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1982, having the academic rank "Habilitated Doctor" (2003). Prior to joining Bilkent, Prof. Radushev worked as a Senior Research Associate in the Institute for Balkan Studies (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), the Ottoman Archive – Sofia, and as an Associate Professor taught in the Department of History at Sofia University. His research area is Ottoman social and economic history with emphasis on demographic processes, ethno-religious and cultural interactions. He is currently working on a project concerning the common history of Muslim and Christian population in the Balkans during the Ottoman epoch.
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Office phone: (+90) 312 290 2387 e-mail: radushev@bilkent.edu.tr |
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OKTAY ÖZEL, Assistant Professor
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, U.K., in 1993. Before joining Bilkent he worked as an Assistant Professor at Hacettepe University. His research area is Ottoman social and economic history with particular emphasis on historical geography, demographic changes, and migration. He is currently working on projects dealing with the seventeenth century-avarız registers and social history of the migration from Georgia to Anatolia following the Ottoman-Russian War of 1877-78.
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Office phone: (+90) 312 290 2813 e-mail: oozel@bilkent.edu.tr |
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EUGENIA KERMELİ, Instructor
She received her Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1997 in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. Prior to joining the department Dr. Kermeli taught at the Universities of Manchester and Liverpool. Her primary fields of research are the transition from late Byzantine to early Ottoman institutions and the position of zimmis in the Ottoman Empire. In addition, she is interested in Ottoman Law and the participation of zimmis in the kadi courts. She is currently completing a book on The Confiscation of Monastic Properties by Selim II, 1568-1570 and is working on a monograph on the land system introduced in Crete by the Ottomans after 1669.
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Office phone: (+90) 312 290 2032 e-mail: evgenia@bilkent.edu.tr |
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CHRISTOPH HERZOG, Visiting Professor |
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