Asst Professor of History @UTKnoxville | PhD @Stanford | Natural History & Medicine | Early Modern History | Forthcoming book: A History of Uncertainty
Knoxville, TN
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So my book now has a cover, featuring one of my favorite archival images.
Forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2027!
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The Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts at the University of Tennessee seeks submissions for its inaugural conference, “Speculative Souths,” which will take place June 10-12, 2027 in Knoxville, TN.
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Zozan Pehlivan and Michael Christopher Low (@MChrisLow) are editing “the Bloomsbury Handbook of Middle East Environmental Histories,” and I’m happy to be contributing with a chapter on medicine, health and the environment. Very excited to be part of this collaboration and the forthcoming workshop. Stay tuned!
In the age of AI, I’ve been experimenting with more creative, nontraditional formats for student assignments. This is one of the delightful results!
One of my students made this very fun video about Coca-Cola and the Middle East for his presentation in our food history class, and I think it is too good not to share!
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Early Modern Ottoman Studies Conference V
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Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore's “The State Drug: Theriac, Pharmacy, and Politics in Early Modern Italy” (Harvard University Press, 2025), published in the | Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History series, has won the 2026 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in European History from the American Historical Association.
So well deserved, dear Barbara ❤️ 🎉
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“Uncertainty” kavramını görünce yazmadan edemezdim. Kitabımın temel argümanlarından biri de belirsizliği aşılması, giderilmesi ya da yönetilmesi gereken bir durum olarak ele alan sosyal bilimsel yaklaşımların ötesine gidebilmek. Sosyolojide, hatta psikolojide de bu eğilime sıkça rastlıyoruz. Ben ise kitabımda belirsizliği kendi tarihsel bağlamında incelenmesi gereken bir olgu olarak ele almaya çalıştım.
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So many of you have asked about the archival image on the cover. The full watercolor will also be reproduced in the book. It depicts discussions about the plague between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans on the borders.
Visual representations of Ottomans and Europeans engaged in dialogue are rare in the early modern period, which makes this image particularly fascinating to me. I especially love the little inset that seems like an early modern zoom-in!
So many of you have asked about the archival image on the cover. The full watercolor will also be reproduced in the book. It depicts discussions about the plague between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans on the borders.
Visual representations of Ottomans and Europeans engaged in dialogue are rare in the early modern period, which makes this image particularly fascinating to me. I especially love the little inset that seems like an early modern zoom-in!
Duygu Yıldırım retweeted
So my book now has a cover, featuring one of my favorite archival images.
Forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2027!
Duygu Yıldırım retweeted
The artist and entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian traveled to Suriname in 1699 to paint animals in watercolor. Her work introduced European readers to creatures they had never seen before, Susan Tallman writes. theatlantic.com/magazine/202…
What a wonderful panel with wonderful colleagues at @AndOttoman annual meeting! It was such a pleasure to be in this panel with Faisal, Fikri, Zozan, and our chair @BrammerAyse.
And lovely few days at the University of Wisconsin–Madison! We are grateful to the organizers for the opportunity to share our work in such a collegial atmosphere, and, above all, to reconnect with old friends and make new ones.
“What do environmental features like plants, animals, landscapes, and climate have to do with the political transformation of the Ottoman Empire? Everything, according to our guest in this episode, Zozan Pehlivan, author of The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century.”
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