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Leslie Peirce
New York University
Department of History
53 Washington Square South, #604, NY 10012-1098
Tel: 212-645-2313 Fax: 212-995-4017 Email: [email protected]
Education
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1988, Near Eastern Studies
M.A., Harvard University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
B.A., Harvard-Radcliffe College, History (European)
Academic positions
2006New York University, Silver Professor, History Department; Associate, Middle
Eastern and Islamic Studies Dept.
1998-2006 University of California, Berkeley, Professor, Departments of History & Near
Eastern Studies (Associate Professor 1998-2000)
1997
University of California at Los Angeles, Department of History, Visiting Associate
Professor (Winter and Spring quarters)
1988-98
Cornell University, Associate (1994) & Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Studies
Member, Graduate Fields in History (1992-), Women’s Studies (1993-)
1983-84
Princeton University, Lecturer (Turkish), Near Eastern Studies
Honors and Fellowships
Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Residential Fellowship, 2009-2010
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2009-2010
Silver Professorship, New York University, October 2006
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Professeur Invité, December 2005
Albert Hourani Prize for best book (Morality Tales), Middle East Studies Association, 2004
M.F. Köprülü Prize for best book (Morality Tales), Turkish Studies Association, 2003-2004
Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley, Senior Fellow, 2004-2005
Institute for Advanced Studies, Historical Studies (Princeton NJ) NEH Fellow 2002-2003
Harvard Divinity School, Research Fellowship, Women’s Studies in Religion, 1995-96
M.F. Köprülü Prize for best book (The Imperial Harem), Turkish Studies Association, 1993-94
Social Science Research Council, Advanced Research Grant, 1992-1993
Fulbright Scholar Grant (Council for International Exchange of Scholars), 1992-1993
National Endowment for the Humanities, Translation Grant, 1991
American Council of Learned Societies, Research Fellowship, 1990
American Philosophical Society, Research Grant, 1990
Institute of Turkish Studies, Research Travel Grant, 1989
Whiting Foundation, Honorific Fellowship in the Humanities, 1987-1988
Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Women’s Studies Doctoral Fellowship, 1984-1985
Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, 1984-1985
Delmas Foundation Grant for Research in Venice, 1984-1985 (declined)
American Association of University Women, Dissertation Grant, 1984-1985 (declined)
Professional service (partial)
NYU Directorships:
Program in Ottoman Studies (lecture/conference series, Ottoman Graduate Forum,
sponsorship of Ottoman language program through 2011)
Program in the History of Women and Gender (MA program, faculty/graduate student
seminar series), Spring 2009
UC Berkeley Board Memberships:
Advisory Board, Center for Middle East Studies, 1998-2006;
Executive Board, Caspian and Central Asian Studies Program, 2001-05;
Executive Board, Institute for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 2004-06
Editorial Boards: Collection Turcica (College de France), 2013-; Gender and History, 2013-;
Journal of Social History, 2002-; University of California International & Area Studies Digital
Collection, 2002-04; International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1999-2005
Princeton University, Advisory Council for Department of Religion, 2012-2016
Charlotte Newcombe Foundation Fellowship Selection Committee, 2013American Historical Association, Committee on Women Historians, 2004-2007
Middle East Studies Association, Executive Board, 2002-2005;
Program Committee Chair, 2001 annual meeting; Nominating Committee, 1999
European Science Foundation, Member, Research program on “Individual and Society in the
the Mediterranean Muslim World”, 1996-1999
Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Program Committee, 1996
Turkish Studies Association, Executive Board member 1995-97; Book Prize Committee 1996
Publications
books
Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab, University of California
Press, 2003, 458 pp.
Albert Hourani Prize for best book, Middle East Studies Association
M.F. Köprülü Prize for best book (biannual), Turkish Studies Association
Turkish translation: Ahlak Oyunları, 1540-1541 Osmanlı’da Ayntab Mahkemesi ve
Toplumsal Cinsiyet, Foundation for Economic & Social History, Istanbul 2005
The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University
Press, 1993, 359 pp.
M.F. Köprülü Prize for best book (biannual), Turkish Studies Association
Turkish translation: Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda Hukümranlık ve Kadınlar, Foundation
for Economic & Social History, Istanbul 1996, latest reprint 2010
Albanian translation: Logos-A publishers (forthcoming)
Greek translation: National Bank of Greece, Cultural Foundation (forthcoming)
articles
”Honor, reputation, and reciprocity”, European Journal of Turkish Studies, Special issue on
(Hi)stories of honor in Ottoman societies: Controversies, continuities, and new directions,
18 (2014).
“Talking back to tyranny: The cavalryman Halil and the people of Harput, 1632”, in Antonis
Anastasopoulos, ed., Political Initiatives ”from the bottom up” in the Ottoman Empire
(Rethmno: University of Crete Press, 2012): 15-32.
“Passages Interdits: Structures du désir dans le monde Ottoman au XVIe siècle”, in
J. Dakhlia, A. Farge, C. Klapisch-Zuber, A. Stella, eds., Histoires de l’amour: Fragilités et
interdits, du Kamasutra à nos jours (Bayard, 2011): 161-182.
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“Abduction with (dis)honor: Sovereigns, bandits, and heroes in the Ottoman world”, Journal
of Early Modern History 15 (2011): 311-329. Special issue on honor and the state.
Turkish translation, Kebikeç 34 (2012), 42-60, Special issue on banditry (Şaki, Celali, Asi)
“Becoming Ottoman in sixteenth-century Aintab”, in E.Özdağli et. al., Istanbul as seen from
a distance: Centre and provinces in the Ottoman Empire (I. B. Taurus, 2011): 59-72.
“Domesticating sexuality: Harem culture in Ottoman imperial law”, in Marilyn Booth, ed.,
Harem Histories: Lived Spaces and Imagined Places (Duke Univ. Press, 2010): 104-135.
“Polyglottism in the Ottoman Empire: A Reconsideration”, in G. Piterberg, T. Ruiz, & G.
Symcox, eds., Braudel Revisited: The Mediterranean World, 1600-1800 (University of
Toronto Press, 2010): 76-98.
“Writing Histories of Sexuality in the Middle East”, American Historical Review, Forum on
Historiographies of Sexuality, 114 (December 2009): 1325-1339.
“An Imperial Caste: Inverted Racialization in the Architecture of Ottoman Sovereignty”, in M.
R. Greer, W. Mignolo, & M.Quilligan, eds., Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of
Racism in the Renaissance Empires (Univ. Chicago Press, 2007), 27-47.
“The Material World: Ideologies and Ordinary Things”, in V. Aksan & D. Goffman, ed., The
Early Modern Ottoman Empire: a Reinterpretation (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007),213Review essay, Nicolas Vatin & Gilles Veinstein, Le sérail ébranlé: Essai sur les morts, dépositions et avènements des sultans ottomans (Fayard, 2003) in Turcica 38 (2007): 367-73.
“In search of the harem: sexual crime and social space in Ottoman royal law of the 15th &
16th centuries”, in E. Kermeli & O. Özel, The Ottoman Empire: Myths, Realities, & Black
Holes, Contributions in Honour of Colin Imber (Isis Press, Istanbul, 2006), 129-154.
Journal of Women’s History, Book Forum (the Journal’s first Book Forum featured Morality
Tales: three commentaries on the book & my response), 18 (Spring 2006): 181-202.
“Entrepreneurial success in 16th-century Aintab: The case of Seydi Ahmed Boyacı”, in A.
Anastasopoulos, ed., Provincial Elites in the Ottoman Empire (U. of Crete Press, 2006),
115-132.
Reprinted in Turkish translation “Onaltıncı yüzyıl Ayntab’ında bir girişimcilik başarısı:
Yerel eşraftan Seydi Ahmet Boyacı örneği”, in M.N. Güntekin, ed., Antep: “Ta zelden
Taşkındır..” (Iletişim Yayınları, 2011).
“A New Judge for Aintab: The Shifting Legal Environment of a 16th-C. Ottoman Court”,
in M.K. Masud, R. Peters, & D.S. Powers, eds., Seeking Justice in Muslim Courts: Qadis,
Procedures, and Judgments (Brill, 2006), 71-93.
“Rape as Social Action, Ottoman”, Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, S. Joseph,
ed., Brill, 2004, 2:133-34.
“Changing Perceptions of the Ottoman Empire: The Early Centuries”, Mediterranean Historical
Review 19 (June 2004), 6-27.
“Guardian’s defense of an orphan’s interest, Ottoman empire 1541” (& nine other
contributions), in M. Chojnacka and M. Wiesner-Hanks, eds., Ages of Woman, Ages of
Man: Sources in European Social History, 1400-1750, Pearson Education, 2002.
“Localizing Legitimation: Bargaining Through the Law in a Provincial Court”, New Perspectives
on Turkey 24 (Spring 2001): 17-49.
“Gender and Sexual Propriety in Ottoman Royal Women’s Patronage”, in D. F. Ruggles ed.,
Women, Patronage, & Self-representation in Islamic Societies, SUNY Press, 2000:53-68.
“’The Law Shall Not Languish: Social Class and Public Conduct in 16th-century Ottoman
Legal Discourse”, in A. Afsaruddin, ed., Hermeneutics and Honor: Negotiating “Female”
Public Space in Islamic/ate Societies, Harvard Univ. Press, 1999: 140-158.
“’She is trouble...and I will divorce her’: Orality, Honor, and Representation in the Ottoman
Court of Aintab,” in Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage,Piety,
ed. G. Hambly. St. Martin’s Press, 1998: 267-300.
“Le dilemme de Fatma: crime sexuel et culture juridique dans une cour ottomane au début
des temps modernes,” Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, Vol. 53, No. 2 (March-April
1998): 291-319.
Hebrew translation: Jama’a, No. 11 (January 2004).
“Seniority, Sexuality, and Social Order: The Vocabulary of Gender in Early Modern Ottoman
Anatolia,” in M. Zilfi, ed., Women in the Ottoman Empire: Middle Eastern Women in the
Early Modern Era, Brill, 1997: 169-196.
“Beyond Harem Walls: Ottoman Royal Women and the Exercise of Power,” in D. Helly & S.
Reverby, eds., Gendered Domains: Rethinking Public and Private in Women’s History,
Cornell University Press, 1992: 40-55.
Reprinted in B. Hughes, ed, Women in World History, Vol. 2, M.E. Sharpe, Inc.,1997.
Reprinted in A. Walthall, ed., Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History,
University of California Press, 2008.
“The Family as Faction: Dynastic Politics in the Reign of Süleyman,” in G. Veinstein, ed.,
Soliman le magnifique et son temps, Rencontres de l’Ecole du Louvre, 1992: 105-116.
“Shifting Boundaries: Images of Ottoman Royal Women in the 16th and 17th Centuries,”
Critical Matrix, Vol. 4 (Fall-Winter 1988), 43-81.
(at Educational Testing Service, employed 1979-1988)
“Intensional and Extensional Analogy Items: Differences in Performance as a Function of
Academic Major and Sex”, with Roger Chaffin and Isaac Bejar, Applied Cognitive
Psychology, Vol 4 (1990), 461-470.
GRE Verbal Analogy Items: Examinee Reasoning on Items (GRE Board Professional Report),
with Robert Duran and Mary Enright. Educational Testing Service, 1987.
in press/forthcoming
“Suleyman in Aleppo,” Turkish Language, Literature, and History: Travellers' Tales, Sultans, and
Scholars since the Eighth Century , eds. G. Leiser & B. Hickman, Routledge (2015),
308-322.
“Becoming Ottoman in 16th-century Aintab”, Living in the Ottoman Realm: Everyday Life and
Identity, eds. C. Isom-Verhaaren & K. Schull, Indiana University Press (2016)
Four articles for Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd Edition, edited by K. Fleet, et.al. (Brill Online, 2015).
• Damad (450 words)
• Hafsa (300 words)
• Harem (2,500 words)
• Hurrem (650 words)
Nine articles for Dictionnaire de l’Empire Ottoman, edited by F. Georgeon, N. Vatin, & G.
Veinstein (Paris: Fayard, 2015)
• Women 14-18th centuries, Harem (each 3,500 words)
• Hurrem, Rüstem Pasha, Nurbanu, Turhan, Sultanate of women (each 450 words)
• Mihrimah, Valide Sultan [queen mother] (each 220 words)
in preparation
Trade biography of Hurrem Sultan (aka Roxelana), concubine/wife of Suleyman the Magnificent
and international political figure (Basic Books)
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book reviews
American Historical Review, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, Bulletin of the School
of Oriental and African Studies, Economic History Review, Journal of Islamic Studies,
International Journal of Middle East Studies, Medieval Encounters, Bulletin of the American
Schools of Oriental Research, Turcica, Islamic Law and Society, International Journal of Turkish
Studies.
Media & the Arts (recent)
Speaker, Lion TV, “East to West”, 7-part television film, production for BBC, PBS,
and TRT (Turkish Radio-Television), first aired 2012
Speaker, Ebru TV (New Jersey), “Scholars Shed Light on Inner Workings of Harem”, 2/2011
Speaker, “Falafelism”, television film by Rotating Planet Productions (Montreal, Ari Cohen
director), aired summer 2010
Speaker & consultant, “The Ottoman Empire: The Sultans”, television film by Digital
Ranch Productions (Burbank CA), aired summer 2006 on A&E History Channel.
Speaker, “Mistresses”, three-part television film (one segment on 16th/17th-century Ottoman
empire) by Le Vision (Leipzig Germany), first aired in Europe 12/2005, frequent repeats
Consultant, Sarasota Opera Company, spring 2004
Speaker & historical consultant, “The Harem”, two-part television film by Paladin Film
(London) for Channel 4 TV (Great Britain), 2003; aired in France & U.S. (A&E History
Channel); Wrote a companion piece for Channel 4’s website, 2003.
Scholarly presentations (all invited)
2015
University of New Hampshire, Ethics of Wealth Series, Responsible Governance & Sustainable
Citizenship Project, February: “Why was charitable giving so ubiquitous among the early
modern Ottomans?
Simon Fraser University, History Department, March: “Hurrem Sultan, the slave who became
queen”, and “Writing biography with few sources and fewer models”
University of Virginia, History Department, April (See Simon Fraser event titles)
2014
Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, March: Panel on Slavery and Race before
1611, “Enslaving civilians and prisoners of war in the early modern Ottoman empire”
Bard College, Historical Studies Program, April, “Hurrem Sultan: The Slave who became Queen”
Cornell University, Comparitive Muslim Societies Program, May, “Writing popular biography: The
case of the infamous concubine Roxelana”
CUNY Graduate Center, Renaissance Society of America, October: Speaker, Round-table on
Mediterranean Studies
Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, November: Panel on Trans-regional networks
of violence in the Ottoman Mediterranean, 1600-1900, “Internal frontiers in Anatolia and
the reign of violence”
2013
NYU, History Department, Friday Seminar Series, November, “Honor and reputation among
the early modern Ottomans”
Princeton University, Near Eastern Studies Department, October, "Roxelana: Writing Popular
Biography"
Central European University, Conference on Honor in Ottoman and Contemporary
Mediterranean Societies, March: “Honor as a social contract”
Baylor University, Annual Women’s History Month Lecture, March: “Talking back” [see below]
University of Wisconsin, Center for Turkish Studies, lecture, February: “Bandits and their
victims: Abduction and violence in the early modern Ottoman world”
2012
UCLA, Clark Center for 17th & 18th-century Studies, Conference on Moralism and the
Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, November: “The rhetoric of abduction in the Ottoman
time of troubles”
Netherlands Institute in Turkey, June: “Urban life in early modern Istanbul”
Seton Hall University, History Department, Phi Alpha Theta lecture, April: “Talking back:
Female voices in the early-modern Ottoman world”
UC Davis, Mellon Research Initiative in Early Modern Studies, February: “Abducting
Reputation—Gender & Honor in the Early Modern World” (one of two invited participants
in a two-day workshop)
2011
Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, December: Panel on Ottoman Identity,
“Becoming Ottoman in 16th-century Aintab”
CUNY Graduate Center, Renaissance Society of America, October: Speaker in round-table on
Migration and Exile in the Renaissance and Early Modern World,
Cambridge University, Skilliter Center, conference on Ottoman women, July: “Violence
against women in early modern Anatolia”
Central European University, Budapest, History department, May: keynote speaker,
conference on “18th-century crossroads in Ottoman studies: Negotiating communal,
state, and moral boundaries”
Yale University, History Department, April, “Captive bodies: abduction and violence in the
Ottoman world”
Cornell University, Institute for Peace & Conflict Studies, History, Mediterranean Studies,
EurRussian Circle, March: “Captive bodies…”
American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January: Presidential Panel “Generations:
The Past, Present, and Future of Histories of Women and Gender”, panelist.
2010
Duke University, History Dept. & Islamic Studies Center, October: “Captive bodies: abduction
and violence in the early modern Ottoman world”
Swedish Research Institute, Istanbul, Conference on “Istanbul as seen from a distance”, May:
“A mixed blessing? the Istanbul sultanate in the life of Aintab 25years after its conquest”
Bosphorus (Boğaziçi) University, Istanbul, History Department, May (see Bilgi University title)
Bilgi University, Istanbul, History Department April, “Abduction: sexual crime, political threat”
Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Istanbul, Symposium on Order and Disorder: New
challenges for the early-modern Ottoman world, April: “Violence in a post-conquest era”
Bilkent University, Ankara, History Department, March: “Why do bandits abduct?”
Sabanci University, Istanbul, History Group, March: “Abduction and violence among the
Ottomans, 15th-17th centuries”
Yildiz Technical University, Humanities and Social Sciences, Istanbul, February: “Abduction,
violence, and status in the early-modern Ottoman world”
2009
Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes, Istanbul, December: “`I am my own agent’: Women
and the rocky road to marriage in early modern Anatolia”
Sixteenth-Century Society Conference, Geneva, May: Panel on Honor and Institutions in
the Early Modern Mediterranean, “Abduction with Honor: Heroes, Sovereigns, and Rebels
in the Ottoman World”
Program in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, February: “Abduction and its Meanings
in the Premodern Ottoman World”
Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Rethymno, Crete, Conference on Political Initiatives
‘From the Bottom Up’, January: “Talking Back to Oppression: The Celali Halil and the
People of Harput, 1632”
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American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January: Panel speaker, "Preparing for the
Research Trip: What to Know Before You Go" (organized by Graduate Student Division)
2008
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Binghamton University, November: “Public and
Private in Ottoman legal discourse of the 16th Century”
Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania, September: “Domesticating Sexuality”.
University of Crete (5/13), Institute for Mediterranean Studies (5/15), repeat program for
Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Centre for Renaissance & Reformation Studies, University of
Toronto, March: “Domesticating sexuality: harem culture in Ottoman imperial law”
(3/25); “Matrimony and the civilizing process: lovers’ desires, family controls, and state
scrutiny” (3/27)
2007
Sixteenth Century Society Conference, October: Plenary Session – Friction in the Archives:
New Perspectives on Law and Society in the Early Modern World: “Drama in the archives:
Staging narratives of honor in the court of Aintab”
University of Athens, International Symposium, “Turkish Studies Today”, June: “Law,
Gender, and Society”
Cambridge University, Conference on Ottomans and Wealth: a comparative perspective, July:
“Were peasants poorer? Assessing provincial wealth in 16th-century Anatolia”
University of Arizona, Group in Early Modern Studies, March: “Much ado about matrimony:
Women's desires, family controls, and state scrutiny in early modern Ottoman society”
Oregon State University, Annual Carson Lecture, February (same as Vassar lecture below)
2006
Vassar College, History Department, November: “Unequal Justice? Gender, Islamic Law,
and the Courts in the Premodern Ottoman Empire”
NYU, Center for European Studies, October: “An Imperial Caste: Inverted racialization
in the architecture of Ottoman sovereignty”
NYU, Medieval and Renaissance Center, Conference on “Moving Past, Moving the Past:
Rethinking Medieval and Renaissance Studies", April: “Eastern Mediterranean
narratives: Place, history, and the present”
Stanford University, Law and History Group, February: Presentation & discussion of my
Morality Tales
2005
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Professeur Invité, December: four seminars
Ottoman Bank & Archives, Istanbul, Conference on Ottoman and Atlantic Empires in the
Early Modern World, October: Co-presenter, Workshop on Women in Court:
Community, Empire, and the Nature of Legal Records
University of Michigan, Workshop on Gendering Islamicate Histories, September: “In
search of the harem: Legal regimes and domesticated sexuality in the early-modern
Ottoman world”
Claremont-McKenna College, September: “Gender, Generation, Sex, and the Law in the
Ottoman Empire”
Berkeley City Club, May: “Women in Islam”
2004
University of British Columbia, History Department, February: “Unequal Justice? Gender,
Islamic Law, and the Courts in the Premodern Ottoman Empire”
UC Davis, Cross Cultural Women’s History Lecture, April 2004 (same as above)
UC Irvine, Conference on Women and Court Societies, April: “From Male to Female:
the Imperial Harem”
MIT, Agha Khan Program in Islamic Art & Architecture, Conference on Harem in History and
Imagination, May: “Harems in the Ottoman legal imagination, 15th & 16th Centuries”
Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, November: Panel on Family & the Law,
“Getting Married: Social Obstacles, Legal Solutions”
2003
Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Rethymno, Crete, Conference on Provincial Elites in the
Ottoman empire, January: “Bargaining with the State: Provincial Elites in 16th-c. Aintab”
Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, March 2003: "Writing bigger
history: polyglottism and the Ottoman empire”
Duke University, Conference on Rereading the Black Legend, April 2003: Plenary session,
“Inverted Racialization in the Architecture of Ottoman Sovereignty”
Cambridge University, Conference on Power in Practice in the Ottoman Empire, September
2003: “Women’s Practices of Property”
2002
UCLA, Center for 17th & 18th-Century Studies, Conference on Braudel Revisited: The
Mediterranean World, 1600-1800, December 2002: “Polyglotism in the Ottoman empire”
Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Conference on 20th-c. Historians and the Historiography of
the Middle East, May 2002: “Changing Perceptions of the Ottoman Empire”
American Historical Association, January 2002: “On the Margins of Justice: Negotiating Law
and Honor in an Ottoman Provincial Court”
2001
Leiden University, Conference on Application of Islamic Law in Muslim Courts, October 2001:
“A New Judge for Aintab: The Shifting Environment of a 16th-century Ottoman Court”
Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, November 2001: “Politicizing Sex:
Bodies, Honor, and the State in 16th-century Anatolia”
U C Davis, Conference on Gender in World History, December 2001: Plenary session: Court
Societies, Gender, and the Civilizing Process”
Asian Art Museum, Docent lecture, May 2001: “Sultans, Slaves, & Concubines: the Ottoman
Imperial Harem in the Golden Age”
Cambridge University, Center for Middle East Studies, March 2001: “On the Margins of
Justice: Voices from the Court of Aintab”
Cambridge University, Art History Department, March 2001: “The Harem: European
Representations, Ottoman Realities”
1996-2000
U.S. University of Texas, Austin (two occasions); UC Berkeley; University of North Carolina; UC
Santa Barbara; Binghamton University; University of Michigan (two occasions); Princeton
University; Notre Dame University; Georgetown University; Ohio State University; Northwestern
University; UCLA (two occasions); UC San Diego; Harvard University; Smith College; Princeton
University; College Art Association; Berkshire Conference; Middle East Studies Association
International Ben Gurion University, Middle East Technical University (Ankara), Koç University
(Istanbul)
1985-1995
U.S. Smith College (Annual History Department Lecture); St. Olaf College (named lectureship);
University of Maryland; Ohio State University; University of Wisconsin-Madison; Harvard
University; University of Rhode Island; SUNY-Binghamton University; American Oriental Society;
Berkshire Conference (two occasions); American Political Science Association; Middle East
Studies Association (four occasions)
International L’Ecole du Louvre; University of Crete; Turkish Foundation for Economic and
Social History; Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Tel Aviv University
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Other conference participation & organization
Paper commenter, CUNY Graduate Center, Middle Eastern and Middle Eastern-American
Center, “Tyranny Illustrated”, March 2012
Panel commenter, Graduate workshop on “Ottomans and Turks in conflict”, Columbia
University History department, May 2011
Convener, Workshop on “Violence in Ottoman Anatolia”, NYU, Spring 2011
Panel commenter, “Revisiting modernity and heteronormativity in the nineteenth century”,
Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2010
Panel chair, “Interpreting Empires in Time and Space: Ottoman, Qing, and Russian Empires in
World History”, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 2009
Panel chair, “The Ottoman-Hapsburg Rivalry in Hungary and Transylvania: Conversion,
Diplomacy, and Imperial Image-making”, Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, 2008
Panel commenter, “The Renegade in Ottoman Context in the Early Modern Era”, MESA 2007
Panel chair, “Entangled Empires: Humanitarianism and the Final Ottoman Century”, Columbia
University Center for International History, November 2007
Co-convener & panel chair, Conference on "Worlds Apart? Early Modern Europe & the Ottoman Empire", NYU Medieval & Renaissance Center, CUNY Graduate Center, March 2007
Lecturer, California History-Social Science Project, Summer Selectional Institute, 2001,’02,‘04
Lunch colloquium speaker, Wilson College, Princeton University, November 2002
Dinner speaker, Jade Circle, Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), March 2002
Panel commenter, “Family in the late Ottoman Empire: Diversity and Change”, MESA 2001
Convener, Symposium on The Meanings of Land: Ottoman Law, Ideology, and Identity,
Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley, October 2001
Presenter, Graduate student conference on Islamic law, Princeton University, May 2000
Commenter, International conference on Poverty and Charity in Islamic Societies, University
of Michigan, May 2000
Commenter, Conference on Iran and the surrounding world since 1500, UCLA, April 2000
Co-convener, Symposium on Courtly Ambiguities: Harems and Gender in the Eastern
Mediterranean, Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley, March 2000
Panel commenter, “Poverty, Charity, Society, and the State, 7th-19th Centuries”, MESA 1997
Colloquium chair & commenter, “Renegotiating Identity in Terms of the Other:
Armeno-Islamic Interchange in Anatolia during the Second Half of the 13th Century”,
Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA, May 1997
Panel commenter, “Poverty and Social Welfare in Islamic Contexts”, MESA 1996
Panel chair, Consumption in the Ottoman Empire, 1500-1923, Seventh Biennial Conference
on the Ottoman Empire and the World-Economy, Binghamton University, October 1996
Respondent, “Fatwas as a Source for the History of Gender,” Workshop on Sources for the
Study of Women in Islamic Societies, Georgetown University, April 1996
Conference chair, Symposium on the Ottoman Cities of Aleppo, Istanbul, and Izmir, Ball
State University and Turkish Studies Association, April 1995
Round-table presenter, “The Future of Turkish Studies”, Inaugural Workshop, M. Münir
Ertegün Foundation in Turkish Studies, Princeton University, March 1995
Round-table commenter, Historiographies of the Ottoman Empire, Sixth Biennial Conference
on the Ottoman Empire and the World Economy, Binghamton University, Sept. 1994