Contributors
Marc Aymes
is a Senior Research Fellow (Directeur de Recherche) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a Research Professor (Directeur d’Etudes) at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. He currently chairs the Centre for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies (CETOBaC), a joint research unit of CNRS, the Collège de France, and EHESS. His research interests include philological and sociological encounters in the Ottoman empire, eighteenth to twentieth centuries, Ottoman translators at work and law as technique and as utterance. His publications include Les Faux-Monnayeurs d’Istanbul (Toulouse: Anacharsis, 2019), A Provincial History of the Ottoman Empire. Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Nineteenth Century (London and New York: Routledge, 2014), and “Un Grand Progrès – sur le papier”. Histoire provinciale des réformes ottomanes à Chypre au XIXe siècle (Paris, Louvain and Walpole, M.A.: Peeters, 2010).
Ebru Boyar
is Professor in the Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, where she teaches Ottoman, Turkish and modern Middle Eastern history. She is also Academic Advisor at the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, University of Cambridge. Her current research interests include informal diplomacy in the late Ottoman empire and early Turkish republic and public health in the same period. Her publications include Ottomans, Turks, and the Balkans: Empire Lost, Relations Altered (London: I.B. Tauris, 2007), A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), co-authored with Kate Fleet, Ottoman Women in Public Space (Leiden: Brill, 2016), Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period (Leiden: Brill, 2018) and Entertainment Among the Ottomans (Leiden: Brill, 2019), co-edited with Kate Fleet.
Metin Coşgel
is Professor of economics at the University of Connecticut, U.S.A. He is the author of The Economics of Ottoman Justice: Settlement and Trial in the Sharia Courts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), with Boğaç Ergene. He has published widely on the economic history of the Ottoman empire, political economy of religion, and economics of social institutions. His current research interests include the economics of the system of judicial appointment in Ottoman courts, the effect of gender, religion, and location (center vs. province) on legal capabilities and performance, and the historical roots of comparative development in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. He maintains a website on The Economic History of the Ottoman Empire (ottoman.uconn.edu).
Suraiya Faroqhi
is a Professor of history at İbn Haldun University (Istanbul). Her focus is on Ottoman social history of the early modern period, especially women, artisan production, the use of objects as historical sources, as well as urban life and cross-cultural linkages, her most recent books being: A Cultural History of the Ottomans: The Imperial Elite and its Artefacts (London: I.B. Tauris, 2016), and The Ottoman and Mughal Empires: Social History in the Early Modern World (London: I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2019).
Kate Fleet
is the Director of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, University of Cambridge. Her current research interests include various aspects of Ottoman commercial history and relations between the early Turkish republic and the Great Powers. Her books include European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State: the Merchants of Genoa and Turkey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), together with Ebru Boyar and Ottoman Economic Practices in Periods of Transformation: the Cases of Crete and Bulgaria (Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, 2014), together with Svetla Ianeva. She has recently edited three volumes together with Ebru Boyar: Ottoman Women in Public Space (Leiden: Brill, 2016), Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period (Leiden: Brill, 2018) and Entertainment Among the Ottomans (Leiden: Brill, 2019).
Elena Frangakis-Syrett
is a Professor of Ottoman history at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She specializes in Ottoman commercial, monetary and banking history and particularly in the economic relations between the Ottoman empire and the West from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Her recent publications include: Au coeur des mutations du négoce en Méditerranée, co-edited with T. Allain and S. Lupo, Rives Méditerranéennes, 59 (2019) and The Port-City in the Ottoman Middle East at the Age of Imperialism (Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2017). She is currently working on an economic history of the Mediterranean in the early modern period.
Yonca Köksal
is Associate Professor of history at Koç University, Istanbul. Her research is on the late Ottoman state and society with a focus on provincial reforms in the Tanzimat era, animal trade from Anatolia to Istanbul and Muslim minorities in the Balkans. She has published many articles, book chapters and three books. Her most recent book is entitled The Ottoman Empire in the Tanzimat Era: Provincial Perspectives from Ankara to Edirne (London: Routledge, 2019).
Mehmet Öz
is a Professor in history at Hacettepe University, Ankara. His works focus on various aspects of Ottoman history from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. His publications include XV–XVi. Yüzyıllarda Canik Sancağı (Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, 1999), Kanun-ı Kadimin Peşinde-Osmanlı’da “Çözülme” ve Gelenekçi Yorumcuları (Istanbul: Dergah Yayınları, first published in 1997, 8th edition in 2019), Canik Sancağı Avarız Defterleri-1642 (Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, 2008), and Söğüt’ten İstanbul’a-Osmanlı Devleti’nin Kuruluşu Üzerine Tartışmalar, edited with Oktay Özel (Istanbul: İmge Kitabevi, first published in 2000, 4th edition in 2019). A two-volume collection of his articles on Ottoman political, intellectual, social and economic history has recently been published: Osmanlı Tarihi Üzerine I Kuruluş, Kimlik ve Siyasi Düşünce (Ankara: Cedit Neşriyat, 2019) and Osmanlı Tarihi Üzerine II İnsan Toplum Ekonomi (Ankara: Cedit Neşriyat, 2020).
Mehmet Polatel
is a non-resident research affiliate at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research. He researches on property regimes, legal history and socio-economic history with a particular focus on land disputes in the late Ottoman empire. He has authored several articles and book chapters along with a book co-authored with Uğur Ü. Üngör: Confiscation and Destruction: The Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property (London: Bloomsbury, 2011).
Sadullah Yıldırım
is an Assistant Professor of economic history at Marmara University. His current research interests include the deep roots of comparative economic development, economics of religion, and Ottoman economic history. His work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Comparative Economics, and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.