Academic CV
Education
Ph.D Comparative History of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Central European University, Budapest, Hungary June 2015
Dissertation Title: “Disputing Religion, Empire, and Modernity: Christian-Muslim Polemics in the Ottoman Print Sphere, 1861-1915”
M. A. History June 2009. Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey
Thesis Title: “Centers of Provocation and Progress: Anatolian Missionary States Within the Ottoman State, Among Apostolic Armenians, 1878-1896.”
B.A. Journalism and International Relations December 2004. Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Study Abroad: Istanbul, Turkey, Boğaziçi University, Spring 2002
Teaching
Istanbul Sehir University, 2015-2016
Undergraduate Course: History of Christian-Muslim Relations: From the Rise of Islam to the Modern Era
Graduate Course: Ottoman and Islamic Borderlands
Istanbul Bilgi University: Visiting Scholar, Fall 2012
Central European University Fall 2011
Teaching Assistantship: Everyday Life History and the Lost Peoples of the Ottoman Empire
Publications
“Ahmet Midhat Efendi,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, 1500-1900 (Leiden: Brill, 2022).
“Polygamy and Religious Polemics in the Late Ottoman Empire: Fatma Âliye and Mahmud Es’ad’s Ta’addüd-i Zevcât’a Zeyl.” Cihannüma: Tarih ve Coğrafya Araştırmaları Dergisi 1/2 (Dec. 2015): 61-79
Review, “Crusading and the Ottoman Threat: 1453-1505,” in European Review of History 21, No. 1 (2014): 121-122.
Conferences & Lectures
“An Anti-Islamic Polemic in 1870s Ottoman Istanbul: S.W. Koelle’s Gıdâü’l-mülâhazât,” paper presented October 15, 2015 at the International Congress of Ottoman Studies, Sakarya University
“Imperial Anxieties and Encounters in the Late Ottoman Empire: Culture, Identity, Security,” lecture presented May 2, 2014 at RCAC 2014 Mini-Symposia Series, Istanbul, Turkey
“Narrating Piety, Modernity, Heresy: Christian-Muslim Attempts at Constructing an Ottoman Religious Identity in the Hamidian Period (1876-1909),” lecture presented May 6, 2013, at Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey
“Rethinking Late Ottoman Religious Sectarianism: Christian-Muslim Polemics and Common Discourses of Religious Truth (1867-1915),” paper presented at MESA 2012
“Late-Ottoman Inter-Confessional Dialectics and Transformations: The Case of Christian-Muslim Religious Polemics (1867-1915),” paper presented May 5, 2012 at GRACEH Graduate Conference, Vienna, Austria
“Ottoman Anti-Christian Religious Polemicists in the 19th Century and their Protestant Interlocutors,” lecture presented August 4, 2011 at Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Fellowships & Awards
TÜBITAK Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2015-2016.
Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC) Junior Fellow, 2013-2014
Yildiz Technical University Ottoman Paleography Program Fellowship, 2011