Academic interests
History of the Ottoman Empire, history of history-writing, universal histories, global history, intellectual history, conceptual history and temporality
PhD Research
My educational background is in Sociology and History. I am interested in cultural history, historical anthropology, conceptual history, and temporality, with a particular emphasis on the early modern and modern Ottoman Empire and the transformation of historiography.
My current PhD project is on world histories written by historians of the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth century. I aim to investigate the semantic changes in concepts of universal history that are crucial for modernity and modern temporalities. My main question is what kind of temporal and spatial perceptions gave rise to modern narratives of universal history.
In order to understand this historiographical shift, I place an emphasis on the methodologies of intellectual history and conceptual history, and place more of a focal point on the interaction between the real world and the text. Transnational and global history approaches are also of interest to me. I focus on concepts, ideas and translations that circulate with commodities and people in order to explore semantic transformations, especially during periods of increased global interaction.
Academic Background and Employment History
2017-2021 Istanbul Bilgi University, Research Assistant
2019 MA History, Boğaziçi University
2013 BA Sociology / History, Boğaziçi University