I am a cultural historian of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. It is, of course, hard to clearly define what culture is and what the study of a culture entails. It will, by all definitions, include an infinite variety of topics. I would like to think that methodologies and approaches to the t...
I am a cultural historian of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. It is, of course, hard to clearly define what culture is and what the study of a culture entails. It will, by all definitions, include an infinite variety of topics. I would like to think that methodologies and approaches to the topics may be as important in defining how a cultural historian works. Pondering about what themes may or may not be considered among the topics of cultural history seems less productive. I am eager to spark interest among my students in methodologies and topics to properly study the cultural history of the Ottoman and Turkish worlds.