Virginia H. Aksan, Chair of History, 1999-2006, specializes in eighteenth and early nineteenth century Ottoman history, and teaches courses in Isamic, Middle Eastern and most recently Mediterranean history. At the graduate level, she offers "War and Society in the early Modern World," and "Europe...
Virginia H. Aksan, Chair of History, 1999-2006, specializes in eighteenth and early nineteenth century Ottoman history, and teaches courses in Isamic, Middle Eastern and most recently Mediterranean history. At the graduate level, she offers "War and Society in the early Modern World," and "European-Muslim Encounters in the Pre-Modern World," the latter as part of the McMaster MA in Globalization. She is an Associate Member of the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto.