Nicholas Crummey

I am a historian of cities and sexualities, and my research focuses on the urban centers of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. My dissertation, provisionally titled "The Architecture of Desire: Eros, Urbanity, and the Early Modern Ottoman Hammam," explores public baths as physical and discursive spaces in Ottoman cities, drawing on poetry, travel writing, joke collections, and archival documents, as well as scores of surviving baths from Budapest to Bursa. 

I have an M.A. in Turkish studies from Sabancı University in Istanbul, for which I wrote a thesis focused on an urban renewal project in contemporary Istanbul, and an M.A. in history from Central European University, then in Budapest, where I wrote about an Englishman’s account of the 1675 imperial circumcision festival in Edirne.