This thesis will examine exchange of silk textile between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire from 1453 to 1571, and how in response to this active two-way traffic the Ottomans established their own indigenous decorative vocabulary. My focus on the period between the f…
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This dissertation focuses on the construction of the Trabzon-Bayezid road in northeastern Anatolia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. On a micro-level, this work focuses on the social history of the road and narrates the stories of various actors (such as …
The autonomy of the shari ` a courts in Ottoman-Egypt during the 16th and 17th centuries, is the subject of this thesis. Specifically, it pursues the question of formalization (the incorporation of courts and their functionaries into the civil apparatus of the state) and, relate…
Why would a successful young novelist write the story of a failed poet told from the point of view of a sympathetic narrator, and why would this failed protagonist then become a role model for the next generation of litterateurs? Focusing on the last decades of the nineteenth ce…
In 1683, in Algiers, soldiers of the Dey loaded the French consul into a large cannon and shot him at the French fleet in retaliation for the French bombardment of the city. Many French consuls in the échelles of the Levant and North Africa suffered harassment, imprisonment, or …
The urban development of Aleppo in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is explored, focusing on the patronage of urban architectural complexes by Ottomans, members of the ruling imperial Elite based in Istanbul. The synchronic and diachronic study of architectural interventi…
Prevailing understanding of the Ottoman entry into Word War I has focused on the role of the Ottoman Minister of War Enver Pasha and the so-called pro-German faction in the Ottoman Committee of Union and Progress (CUP). This study examines Ottoman views on international relation…
This dissertation analyzes indigenous reactions to American Protestant mission schools between the 1830s and World War I. The main thesis is that American schools intended to create a new community favorable toward Protestantism and Western rationality, but that they failed in t…
Despite a wealth of existing primary source material, archival, literary, and numismatic, for the period from the accession of Sultan Süleyman II in 1687 to the end of Mahmud I's reign in 1754, no substantial study of the Ottoman currency system during this era has been written …
The Hamidiye Light Cavalry, a special militia organized by the Ottoman sultan Abdülhamid II in 1890 out of select Kurdish tribes, was an important institution in its day, and impacted many aspects of the lives of its members, their neighbors, and the larger society of which they…
The conventional understanding of German expansion abroad, between unification (1871) and the First World War (1914), is that Germany established colonies in Africa, the Pacific Islands, and to a lesser degree in China. This colonialism began in 1884 with the recognition of Germ…
Since the 1990s, Turkey has started to develop an extensive interest in its Ottoman past. The view of the Ottomans as "backward" and "pre-modern" that once held sway has given way to a view that grasps the Ottoman past as "open," "tolerant," and "cosmopolitan." Food is one of th…
The decade of the 1950s and early 60s in Turkey witnessed a proliferation of popular historical literature on Ottoman women. The uniqueness of these writings, in terms of the representations of Ottoman women they introduce, stand out in light of the erasure of Ottoman women from…
This dissertation explores how gender and sexuality were regulated through the legal and social scrutiny of illicit sex in mid-eighteenth-century Ottoman Anatolia. It examines the legal encounters between the central government, local kadi courts and Ottoman subjects in order to…
This century has witnessed many genocides throughout the world by the hands of leaders and citizens alike. These unjustifiable acts have not failed to exist even today. Although a lot of research and scholarly work has been dedicated towards the study of genocide, there is no si…
This project is the result of research into the history of the Queer community in Istanbul and the form and nature of their variety of slang, known within the community as Lubunca. The purpose of this project is threefold: First (section 1) to describe the structure of Lubunca, …
In the aftermath of the expulsion in 1492, the Sephardic expellees in the Ottoman Empire developed a unique interpretation of levirate marriage (yibbum), a commandment obligating the brother of a man who has died without an heir to marry the deceased's widow. Heavily influenced …
This dissertation explores the intersection of media, history, memory, and nostalgia through a discursive, ethnographic engagement with Magnificent Century (Muhtesem Yüzyil), a globally popular Turkish TV series (dizi) that focuses on the reign of sixteenth century Ottoman Sulta…
This thesis explores the intersection of media, history, memory, and nostalgia through a discursive, ethnographic engagement with Magnificent Century (Muhtesem Yüzyil), a globally popular Turkish TV series (dizi) that focuses on the reign of sixteenth century Ottoman Sultan Süle…