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M. PINAR EMIRALIOGLU

Assistant Professor
PhD, The University of Chicago (2006)

University of Pittsburgh
Department of History
3531 Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

412-388-5407
pinar1@pitt.edu

Field(s)

Political, cultural, and intellectual history of the Ottoman Empire; history of cartography in the Islamic world; cosmography, mathematical geography, and instruments of navigation; spatial turn in history of cartography, language turn, and history of mentalities.

Teaching

HIST 0756 Introduction to the Islamic Civilization
HIST 1005 An Islamic Empire in Europe: The Ottoman Empire (1300-1922)
Selected Publications

“China and the Ottoman World: Books on Geography in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire?” forthcoming in Proceedings of the 10th Annual Workshop “Ottoman Material Culture”: Books and Reading in the Ottoman World. Editor Suraiya Faroqhi. Istanbul, Turkey, October 14 – 15, 2005.

“Ottoman Imperial Aspirations and the Mediterranean,” forthcoming in Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Economic and Social History of Turkey. Venice, Italy, September 28 – October 1, 2005. (As a special issue of Orienta Moderno).

“Osmanli Dünyasinin Sinirlari ve Akdeniz: Walters Deniz Atlas?,” Toplumsal Tarih 140 (2005): 40-50. (“Borders of the Ottoman World and the Mediterranean”

Honors/Awards

Century Fellowship, University of Chicago (2004-2005)

Turkish Studies Research Travel Grant (2003)

Mellon Fellowship, University of Chicago (2000-2003)

Project(s)

Sixteenth-century Ottoman cosmographies
Currently working on the catalogue essay for “the Ottoman Maps” exhibition to be held in the Oriental Museum of the University of Chicago, November 2006
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