Ali Yaycioglu, Stanford University
Associate Professor
Stanford, California
ayayciog@stanford.edu
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(650) 723-3609
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Bio/Research
Ali Yaycioglu is an historian of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. He was born and raised in Ankara, Turkey. He studied International Relations at the Middle East Technical University, Ottoman History at Bilkent University, and Islamic legal history and Arabic at McGill University. After com...
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Bio/Research
Ali Yaycioglu is an historian of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. He was born and raised in Ankara, Turkey. He studied International Relations at the Middle East Technical University, Ottoman History at Bilkent University, and Islamic legal history and Arabic at McGill University. After completing his Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, he carried out a post-doctoral study in Greek and Hellenic Studies at Princeton and joined the History Department at Stanford in 2011. Dr. Yaycioglu is also an associate member of the Centre d'études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques at L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. Dr. Yaycioglu's fields of interest include the transformations and crises of the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and early ninteenth centuries in the broader context of transition from early-modern to modern world; restructring of economic and political institutions and ideas, and changes in social and religious life during this transformative time; Ottoman spatiality, spatial imaginations of life, nature and power, and digitial geo-spatial analysis; cultural and environmental history of Modern Turkey.
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