I am a historian specializing in early modern Europe and the Middle East, with a broad focus on princely courts, ceremonial cultures, and politics. Currently pursuing my doctoral research at Indiana University Bloomington.
I am originally from Istanbul, Turkey, and am an avid coffee drinker, traveler, and museum lover.
I held the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship at Indiana University.
“Beyond Borders and Beasts: Exploring an Ottoman Traveler’s Colonial Discourse and His Contribution to the Formation of Race in the Early Modern Period” is forthcoming in Comitatus.
“The Role of Artisans in the Circumcision Festival of 1675 during the Reign of Sultan Mehmed IV,” Belleten 88, no. 311 (2024): 111-146.
“The 1675 Imperial Festival and Firework Makers in an Ottoman Register,” Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 8, no. 2 (2021): 147-176.