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Baki Tezcan
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Associate Professor Ph.D., Princeton University Office: 3222 Social Sciences Bldg. |
Research Areas
Mainly pre-modern Middle Eastern history, focusing on such topics as Ottoman political history in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries; pre-modern ethnic and racial identities in the Islamic world; Ottoman perceptions of others; Ottoman and modern Turkish historiography; fiscal and monetary history; Islamic law, and the intellectual tradition of Islam.
Current Projects
Tezcan's next book project is tentatively entitled Imperial Visions: Africans, Americans, Asians, and Europeans in the Early Modern Ottoman World.
Recent and Forthcoming Publications
The Second Ottoman Empire: Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World. New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in August 2010.
Co-edited with Karl K. Barbir. Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman World: A Volume of Essays in Honor of Norman Itzkowitz. Madison: University of Wisconsin, Center for Turkish Studies, 2007.
"The Second Empire: The Transformation of the Ottoman Polity in the Early Modern Era.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29 (2009): 556-72.
"The Ottoman mevâlî as 'lords of the law.'" Journal of Islamic Studies 20 (2009): 383-407.
"The Ottoman Monetary Crisis of 1585 Revisited." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 52 (2009): 460-504.
"Khotin 1621, or How the Poles changed the Course of Ottoman History." Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 62 (2009): 185-98.
"Lost in Historiography: An essay on the reasons for the absence of a history of limited government in the early modern Ottoman Empire." Middle Eastern Studies 45 (2009): 477-505.
"The Multiple Faces of the One: The Invocation Section of Ottoman Literary Introductions as a Locus for the Central Argument of the Text." Middle Eastern Literatures 12 (2009): 27-41.
"The History of a 'Primary Source:' The making of Tûghî's chronicle on the deposition of Osman II." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 72 (2009): 41-62.
"The Debut of Kösem Sultan's Political Career." Turcica 40 (2008): 347-59.
"The Question of Regency in Ottoman Dynasty: The case of the early reign of Ahmed I." Archivum Ottomanicum 25 (2008): 185-98.
"The Politics of Early Modern Ottoman Historiography." In The Early Modern Ottomans: Remapping the Empire, edited by Virginia H. Aksan and Daniel Goffman, pp. 167-98. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Honors and Awards
Cornell University, Society for the Humanities, residential post-doctoral fellowship, 2005-2006
UC Davis Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, 2005
American Research Institute in Turkey grant for post-doctoral research in Turkey funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2001-2002
Courses Taught
- RST 1A - Topics in Comparative Religion: Pilgrimage
- RST 60 – Introduction to Islam
- RST 65C – The Qur’an and its Interpretation
- RST 162 - Introduction to Islamic Law
- RST 199 – Special Study (on such topics as contemporary American Muslim women)
- HIS 6 – Introduction to the Middle East
- HIS 10B – World History, c. 1350-1850
- HIS 190C – Middle Eastern History III: The Ottomans, 1401-1730
- HIS 102R – Undergraduate Proseminar in the History of Muslim Societies: Modern Turkey
- HIS 102X – Undergraduate Proseminar in Comparative History: Holy War in Comparative Perspective
- HIS 104B-C – Honors Thesis (on such topics as the Armenian Genocide and British Imperialism in Arabia)
- HIS 201W – Advanced Topics in World History: Race and Color across Time and Space
- HIS 299D – Reading Course (on late medieval and early modern Middle Eastern history)
- MSA 100 – Middle East and South Asia: Comparative Perspectives