Notes on Contributors
H. Şükrü Ilıcak
pursued his studies in Turkey, Greece, and the USA, specializing in the so-called Ottoman “Three Nations,” namely the Greeks, Armenians, and Jews. He received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in 2011, with a dissertation entitled “A Radical Rethinking of Empire: Ottoman State and Society during the Greek War of Independence (1821–1826).” His dissertation investigates the Greek War of Independence as an Ottoman experience, exploring in particular how Sultan Mahmud II (1808–39) and the central state elite tried to make sense of and reacted to the rapidly changing world around them. He has published broadly on the Greek War of Independence and the “Three Nations.” He is currently a fellow of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies in Rethymno, Crete.
Çağrı Erdoğan
is a research assistant at Çankırı Karatekin University. He received his BA and MA degrees from the History Department of Ankara University. His MA thesis comprises a study of Mevlana İsa’s major work “Cami’ü’l-Meknunat.” His research interests include Ottoman–Western relations in the Ottoman classical age and Turkish identity.
Nikola Rakovski
is a graduate student in the History Department of Koç University, Istanbul.
Kahraman Şakul
holds BA and MA degrees from the History Department of Boğaziçi University, Istanbul (1994–2001). He received his Ph.D. degree from the History Department of Georgetown University in 2009, with a dissertation entitled “An Ottoman Global Moment: War of Second Coalition in the Levant, 1798–1807.” He was an Associate Professor at Istanbul Şehir University, where he taught from 2010 to 2020, and has published several articles in Turkish and English on Ottoman diplomacy, military technology, and the transformation of the Ottoman political culture in the early modern era.
Mehmet Savan
obtained his BA at Bilkent University, Ankara, and his MA at Marmara University, Istanbul. He is currently a research assistant in the Turkish Language and Literature Department at Istanbul Medeniyet University, where he is pursuing his Ph.D. studies. His research interests comprise the early attempts at language reform in the Tanzimat era, the development of scientific nomenclature in Ottoman Turkish, language policies in Turkey, and the teaching of Turkish as a foreign language. His professional experience includes Ottoman paleography and the translation of Ottoman documents into various languages.
Aysel Yıldız
received her Ph.D. from Sabancı University, Istanbul, in 2008. She is a political and social historian of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Ottoman history, focusing on social movements, military history, and political culture, as well as various dynamics of discontent and modernization in the same period. She is the editor of Asiler ve Gaziler: Kabakçı Mustafa Risalesi (2007) and co-editor with Georgios Theotokis of A Military History of the Mediterranean Sea: Aspects of War, Diplomacy, and Military Elites (2018). She has also authored the books Crisis and Rebellion in the Ottoman Empire: The Downfall of a Sultan in the Age of Revolution (2017) and Kenar Adamları ve Bendeleri: Ruscuk Ayanı Tirsinikli İsmail Ağa ve Alemdar Mustafa Paşa’nın Adamları Manuk Mirzayan ve Köse Ahmed Efendi (2018).