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Turkish Studies
Interviews with authors about new books in Turkish studies.
July 1, 2026
Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire
Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire: Family, Law and War (Edinburgh UP, 2026) by Dr. Kate Dannies examines the gender and fam…
June 30, 2026
Fashion in Late Ottoman Istanbul
Over the 19th century, the women of Istanbul gradually transformed their appearance, adopting European dress and new modes of self-fashioning, includi…
June 29, 2026
The Golden Throne
What does a 16th century ruler reveal about the nature of power, past and present? Istanbul, 1538. The greatest of the Ottoman Sultans is at the pinn…
June 23, 2026
Boundaries of Belonging
Examining sectarian divergence in the early modern Middle East, Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer's study provides a fresh perspective on the Sunni–Shi'i divis…
May 17, 2026
Temptations in Ruin
Temptations in Ruin: Sovereign Accumulation and the Making of Post-Genocide Turkey (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025) examines the political-economic afterl…
May 16, 2026
Film Diplomacy
Film Diplomacy: A Media History of Turkey-US Relations (Columbia UP, 2026) offers a powerful new account of how film shaped international relations an…
May 1, 2026
1453
A detailed account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, a watershed year that closed the book, once and for all, on the Roman Empire and c…
April 21, 2026
Free Enough to Grow
In Free Enough to Grow: The Turkish Protestant Movement, 1961-2016 (Springer Nature, 2026), James Bultema identifies and investigates four central fac…
March 23, 2026
Prolepsis
In this episode of High Theory, Gloria Fisk talks to Kim about Prolepsis. Defined by Gerard Genette in the 1970s, prolepsis is a flash forward, the op…
March 9, 2026
Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence
Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence: Shared Struggles in Turkey (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) by Dr. Sezai Ozan Zeybek explores the intricate …
February 20, 2026
Earthmoving
Extractivism—exploiting the earth for resources—has long driven racial capitalism and colonialism. And yet, how does extractivism operate in a world w…
January 15, 2026
The Indian Caliphate
In 1924, the Republic of Turkey voted to abolish the Ottoman caliphate, ending a 400-year-long claim by the Ottomans that they were the leaders of the…
January 4, 2026
On the Semicivilized
On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo (Duke University Press, 2025) by Julia Elyachar is a sweeping analysis o…
December 3, 2025
The Jews of Edirne
At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Edirne was a bustling center linking Istanbul to Ottoman Europe. It was also the capital of Edirne P…
October 17, 2025
Empire of Manners
It is easy to believe that manners are empty gestures, little more than social artifice or practiced etiquette whose sole purpose is to project civili…
October 10, 2025
Mavericks
As the First World War drew to a close and regimes began to collapse across Europe, British officials plotted a daring campaign to send an unlikely ba…
September 25, 2025
The Business of Transition
The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule (Stanford UP, 2024) examines how the cosmopolitan bourge…
September 23, 2025
New Turkey and the Far Right
Turkey is among a league of revisionist powers who are challenging the world order. Erdogan and his Islamist movement have aimed to create the “New Tu…
August 12, 2025
Microhistories in Armenian Studies
The articles appearing in this volume were presented at a conference entitled “Microhistories in Armenian Studies” organized by the Armenian Studies P…
July 27, 2025
Ottoman Baroque
In Istanbul, there is a mosque on every hill. Cruising along the Bosphorus, either for pleasure, or like the majority of Istanbul’s denizens, for tran…