Dr. Gottfried Hagen
2713 Hampshire Rd. 
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
USA

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

1996 	Doctorate (Ph.D.) Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, in Turkish Studies, (summa cum laude). 
	Doctoral Thesis: Ein osmanischer Geograph bei der Arbeit. Entstehung und Gedankenwelt von Kātib Čelebis Ǧihānnümā [An Ottoman Geographer at Work. Development and Intellectual World of Kātib Čelebi’s Ǧihānnümā]. 
1983-1989 	Islamic Studies, Semitic Languages, Medieval and Modern History at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany. 
	M.A. Thesis: Propaganda der Mittelmächte im Orient während des 1. Weltkriegs (Propaganda of the Central Powers in the Middle East during World War I).
1981-1982 	Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, Germany 
1977-1981 	German High School, Istanbul, Turkey

EMPLOYMENT

2006- 	Associate Professor of Turkish Studies (with tenure), Department of Near Eastern Studies, The University of Michigan
06-08/2007	Visiting Professor, Department of History, Boğaziçi University
2000-2006	Assistant Professor of Turkish Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies, The University of Michigan
1996-2000  	Lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at Institut für Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
1995-1996 	Visiting Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter) for Ottoman at Orientalisches Seminar, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
1991-1992 	Senior Researcher (Starshii Nauchnii Sotrudnik), A.Krymskii-Institute of Oriental Studies, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (Kiev)

GRANTS

Feb.-Apr.1986 	German Academic Exchange Service: Intensive Arabic in Cairo, Ayn-Shams-University
1992-1994 	Landesgraduiertenförderung [State Fund for the Promotion of Graduate Studies], Berlin: Dissertation Grant 
Summer 2002 	Horace R. Rackham School of Graduate Studies Fellowship
Summer 2003 	Rackham Spring/Summer Research Grant
2003/2004 	Interdisciplinary Faculty Associate, CRLT, University of Michigan
2005	Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Course Development Grant: Foreign Language Across the Curriculum
2003-2005	Faculty Sponsor for Interdisciplinary Rackham Workshop: Historiography of the Ottoman Empire
2007-	Faculty Sponsor for Interdisciplinary Rackham Workshop: Near Eastern Studies
2008-9	Islamic Studies Initiative, Course Development Grant
2009-2010	Undergraduate Research Opportunity Project: Toponyms in Katip Çelebi’s Cihannüma

EXTRAMURAL PROFESSIONAL WORK

1997-2000 	Secretary of the Editorial Board of Archivum Ottomanicum, edited by György Hazai. 
1999-2000 	Technical assistance to the Union Catalog of Oriental Manuscripts in Germany (Katalogisierung der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland) under the auspices of the Academy of Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
March 2000 	Cataloging the Ernst U. Walter Collection of Quran Manuscripts on behalf of the Völkerkundemuseum [Museum of Ethnography], Dresden, Germany
2000- 	Member of the Editorial Board of Archivum Ottomanicum, edited by György Hazai. 
2003-2006 	Book Review Editor, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, edited by Norman Yoffee
Fall 2004-2006	Associate Director, Center for Middle East and North African Studies, University of Michigan
Jan. 2007-2012	Director, Center for Middle East and North African Studies, University of Michigan
2007-2010	Co-Director, Islamic Studies Program, University of Michigan
2007	Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop: Organizer of the 4th meeting, University of Michigan, April 21-22, 2007
2012-	Member of the Editorial Board, Der Islam (Hamburg), and Beihefte zu Der Islam

Peer reviewer for Routledge, University of Indiana Press, and various journals

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Middle East Studies Association of North America
Turkish Studies Association of North America
American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages
Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes

SERVICE ON COMMITTEES ETC.

Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan
2000-2002	Curriculum Committee
2001-2002 	Member of the Internal Review Committee
Fall 2002, Fall 2003-2006 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Undergraduate Advisor for AAPTIS
Winter 2007	Lecturer Review Committee
2007-2012	Undergraduate Advisor, AAPTIS
2009-10	Member, Executive Committee
2010-11	Member, Executive Committee
2013	Member, Executive Committee
Fall 2013	Interim Director of Graduate Studies

Center for Middle East and North African Studies, University of Michigan
2001 	FLAS Committee
2003-4 	Executive Committee
2004-6	Associate Director
2007-2012	Director

Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Michigan
2002 	FLAS and Admissions Committee

International Institute, University of Michigan
2007	II Individual Fellowship Committee 
2008-2010	Steering Committee

Armenian Studies Program, University of Michigan
2007-2010	Member of the Steering Committee
2013-	Member of the Steering Committee

Islamic Studies Initiative, University of Michigan
2007-10	Interim co-chair

Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), University of Michigan
2009-	Member of the Executive Committee

American Research Institute in Turkey
2002, 2004, 2007	Michigan Delegate at the Annual Meeting 
2003-5, 2006	Member of Fellowship Committee
2007	Chair, Nominations Committee
2009-	Member of the Board of Directors

Middle East Studies Association of North America
2011	Member of the Hourani Book Award Committee

LANGUAGES

Fluency in German, English, and Turkish
Limited fluency in Russian, Arabic, and French
Reading knowledge of Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Italian, Spanish, Latin
Basics of Biblical Hebrew and Middle Syriac

PUBLICATIONS

A. Books

1. Die Türkei im Ersten Weltkrieg. Flugblätter und Flugschriften in arabischer, persischer und osmanisch-türkischer Sprache eingeleitet, übersetzt und kommentiert. Heidelberger Orientalistische Studien (ed. Anton Schall), Bd. 15. Frankfurt, Bern 1990. 299 pp. 

2. Ein osmanischer Geograph bei der Arbeit. Entstehung und Gedankenwelt von Kātib Çelebis Ǧihānnnümā. Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Türkvölker (ed. György Hazai), Klaus Schwarz Verlag, Berlin, 2003. XI, 531 pp. 

In progress: 
The Myth of Muhammad and Ottoman Religiosity. A study of Ottoman narratives of the life of the Prophet Muhammad, 1400-1800

[As editor general] An English Translation of Katip Çelebi’s Cihannüma. In collaboration with Robert Dankoff, Gary Leiser, John Curry, Ferenc Csirkes et al. 
Forthcoming. 

[Co-edited with Baki Tezcan, UC Davis]
Other Places: Ottomans traveling, seeing, writing, drawing the world. Essays in honor of Thomas D. Goodrich. Osmanlı Araştırmaları 39-40, 2012. 

B. Articles and Book Chapters (I=invited, R=peer reviewed)

1.	“Überzeitlichkeit und Geschichte in Kātib Čelebis Ǧihānnümā,” Archivum Ottomanicum 14 (1995-96), 133-159. (I, R)
2.	“Karten,” Orientalische Buchkunst in Gotha. Ausstellung zum 350jährigen Jubiläum der Forschungs- und Landesbibliothek Gotha. Gotha, 1997. 160-169. (I)
3.	“The Traveller Mehmed Aşık,” Essays on Ottoman Civilization. Proceedings of the XIIth Congress of the Comité International d’Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes (CIÉPO). Praha, 1996 [Archív Orientální Supplementa VIII, Praha 1998]. 145-154.
4.	“Reinhard Schulzes Hypothese einer islamischen Aufklärung. Kritik einer historiographischen Kritik,” Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 148/1 (1998), 83-110. Together with Prof. Dr. Tilman Seidensticker, Jena. (I, R)
5.	“Kātib Čelebis Darstellung der eyālets und sanǧaqs des Osmanischen Reiches,“ Archivum Ottomanicum 16 (1998), 101-123. (R)
6.	“Kâtib Çelebi and Tarih-i Hind-i Garbî,” Güney-Doğu Avrupa Araştırmaları Dergisi 12 (1982-1998, Prof. Dr. Cengiz Orhonlu Hatıra Sayısı), 101-115. (I)
7.	“Some Considerations on the Study of Ottoman Geographical Writings,” Archivum Ottomanicum 18 (2000), 183-193. (I, R)
8.	“The Prophet Muhammed as an Exemplar in War - Ottoman Views on the Eve of World War I,” New Perspectives on Turkey 22 (Spring 2000), 145-172. (I, R)
Turkish translation (unauthorized) by Gülgûn Uyar:  “‘Kumandan’ Olarak Peygamber (Hz.) Muhammed: Birinci Dünya Savaşı Öncesinde Osmanlılar’da Siyer Yazıcılığı”, İstem (Konya), 8 (2010), no. 15, 321-343. 
9.	“Das Fremde im Eigenen - Mehmed ‘Ašıqs Reisen über den osmanischen Balkan”, Gabriella Schubert, Wolfgang Dahmen (eds.), Bilder vom Eigenen und Fremden aus dem Donau-Balkan-Raum. Analysen literarischer und anderer Texte. München: Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft, 2003 [Südosteuropa-Studien 71], 121-141. (I)
10.	“Träume als Sinnstiftung - Überlegungen zu Traum und historischem Denken bei den Osmanen (zu Gotha, Ms. T. 17/1)“, Hans Stein (ed.), Wilhelm Pertsch - Orientalist und Bibliothekar. Zum 100. Todestag. Gotha 1999, pp. 101-122. (I)
11.	“Some Considerations about the Terǧüme-i Ḍarīr ve taqdīmetü ẓ-ẓahīr, based on Manuscripts in German Libraries,” Journal of Turkish Studies / Türklük Bilgisi Araştırmaları 26 (2002, Barbara Flemming Armağanı, ed. Jan Schmidt), I, 323-337. (I)
12.	“Unter den "Tyrannen seiner Araber" - Carsten Niebuhr über Konstantinopel, Türken und Osmanisches Reich” Stephan Conermann/Josef Wiesehöfer (eds.), Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) und seine Zeit. Beiträge eines interdisziplinären Symposiums vom 7.-10. Oktober 1999 in Eutin. Oriens et Occidens, 5. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2002. 301-324. (I)
13.	“‘He never took the Path of Pastime and Play’ – Concepts of Childhood in Ottoman Hagiography,” Scripta Ottomanica et Res Altaicae. Festschrift für Barbara Kellner-Heinkele zu ihrem 60. Geburtstag, herausgegeben von Ingeborg Hauenschild, Claus Schönig und Peter Zieme. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2002, 95-118. (I)
14.	“World Order and Legitimacy,” Legitimizing the Order: Ottoman Rhetoric of State Power, edited by Maurus Reinkowski and Hakan Karateke. Leiden: Brill, 2005, pp. 55-83. (I, R)
15.	“Translations and Translators in a Multilingual Society: A Case Study of Persian-Ottoman Translations, Late 15th to Early 17th Century,” Eurasian Studies II/1 (2003), 95-134. (R)
16.	“German Heralds of Holy War: Orientalists and Applied Oriental Studies,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 24/2 (2004), 145-162, special issue edited by Jennifer Jenkins, University of Toronto (http://www.cssaame.ilstu.edu/issues/24%2D2/). (R)
17.	“Afterword: Ottoman Understandings of the World in the Seventeenth Century,” Robert Dankoff, Evliya Çelebi - An Ottoman Mentality, pp. 207-248. 2nd ed. Brill, Leiden, 2006. (I)
18.	“Kâtib Çelebi and Sipahizade,” Essays in honour of Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, vol. I: Societies, cultures, sciences: a collection of articles, ed. Mustafa Kaçar, Zeynep Durukal. Istanbul: IRCICA, 2006, pp. 525-542. (I)
19.	“Arabic in the Ottoman Empire,” Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, ed. Kees Verstegh, Leiden, vol. III, Leiden: Brill, 2008, 501-5. (I, R)
20.	“Heroes and Saints in Early Ottoman Literature,“ Oriente Moderno, Nuova Serie, LXXXIX, 2 [Special issue Studies on Islamic Legends, ed. Giovanni Canova], 2009, 349-361. (I)
21.	“From Haggadic Exegesis to Myth: Popular Stories of the Prophets in Islam,” Roberta Sabbath, ed., Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament and Qur’an as Literature and Culture, Leiden: Brill, 2009, Biblical Interpretation Series, vol. 98, pp. 301-16. (I, R)
22.	“Chaos, Order, Power, and the heroic saint in 15th-Century Turkish Literature,” forthcoming in a special issue of Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, edited by Linda Darling (I, R)
23.	“Skepticism and Forgiveness: the miʿrāc in Veysī’s Dürretü t-tāc,“ Christiane Gruber and Frederic Colby, eds., Exploring Other Worlds: New Studies on the Prophet Muhammad's Ascension (Mi'raj), Indiana University Press, 2009, 206-224. (I, R)
24.	“Muslim Accounts of the Dār al-Ḥarb,” The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 4: Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century, ed. Robert Irwin, 474-494 [together with Michael Bonner, University of Michigan]. (I, R)
25.	“Osmanlı Kültürü ve Kâtip Çelebi’nin Haritalarında Mekânın Görüntülenmesi [Ottoman Culture and the Representation of Space in the Maps of Kâtib Çelebi]” Said Öztürk, ed., Vefatının 350. Yılında Kâtip Çelebi, Istanbul: Istanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kültür A. Ş., 2007, 33-40. 
26.	“The Imagined and the Historical Muḥammad. A review of recent publications,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 129/1 (2009), 97-111. (I)
27.	“El Yazmanın Kenarında Hayat: Cihânnümâ Müellif Hatları ve Coğrafyacının Atölyesine Bir Bakış [In the margins of the manuscript: Cihannüma autographs and a look into the geographer’s workshop],” Doğumunun 400. Yıldöneminde Katip Çelebi Armağanı, ed. Bekir Karlığa and Mustafa Kaçar. Ankara: T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, 2009. 173-187. (I)
28.	“The Ottoman Empire: Contexts for Cartography,” forthcoming in The History of Cartography, Volume Four, Cartography in the European Enlightenment, ed. Mary Pedley and Matthew Edney.
29.	“Dreaming Osmans: Of History and Meaning,” Dreams and Visions in  Islamic Societies, edited by Özgen Felek and Alexander Knysh, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2012, 99-121 (I, R). 
30.	“The order of knowledge, the knowledge of order: Intellectual life,” The Cambridge History of Turkey, vol. 2: The Ottoman Empire as a World Power, 1453–1603, ed. Suraiya Faroqhi and Kate Fleet, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 407-456 (I, R)
31.	“Atlas and Papamonta as Sources of Knowledge and Power,” in Nuran Tezcan and Hakan Karateke, eds., Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnamesi’nin Yazılı Kaynakları [The sources of Evliya Çelebi’s Seyahatname], Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu, 2012, 104-129 (I)
32.	“Kâtib Çelebi’s Maps and the Representation of space in Ottoman visual culture,” Osmanlı Araştırmaları 40 (2012: Other Places: Ottomans traveling, seeing, writing, drawing the world. Essays in honor of Thomas D. Goodrich, ed. Gottfried Hagen and Baki Tezcan), 283-293 [updated version of #25]
Forthcoming: 
“Ottoman historical thought;” in collaboration with Ethan Menchinger. Chapter for Blackwell Companion to Global Historical Thought, edited by Andrew Sartori and Prasenjit Duara. 
Articles “Mawlid [Turkish]” (1500 words), and “Ottoman Literature on Muhammad (5-7,000 words)” for Mohammed in History, Thought, and Culture, ed. by Coeli Fitzpatrick and Adam Walker.

C. Small articles

1.	“Katib Celebi: Gihannüma ("Kosmorama"),” Vierhundert Jahre Mercator, vierhundert Jahre Atlas: "Die ganze Welt zwischen zwei Buchdeckeln"; eine Geschichte der Atlanten [zum 400. Todestag Gerhard Mercators anlässlich einer Ausstellung der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek vom 5. April 1995 bis 1. Juli 1995] / hrsg. von Hans Wolff. Weißenhorn, Germany: Konrad, 1995. 
2.	“Katib Celebi: Tuhfetü l-kibar”; “Katib Celebi: Gihannüma,” The beginnings of printing in the Near and Middle East: Jews, Christians and Muslims [Exhibition: Der Frühdruck im Orient: Juden, Christen und Muslime, 25.03.-12.04.2001] / ed. by Lehrstuhl für Türkische Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur, Univ. Bamberg ; Staatsbibliothek Bamberg. [Ausstellung und Katalog: Klaus Kreiser]. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2001.
3.	Articles "Auferstehung,” “Heilsgeschichte,” “Himmelsreise,” “Hölle und Paradies,” “Jüngstes Gericht,” “Maulid,” “Mensch,” “Satan,” “Scharif,” “Schöpfung,” “Weltbild,” “Wunder” [Resurrection, Salvation History, Ascension to Heaven, Hell and Paradise, Judgement Day, Maulid, Satan, Sharif, Creation, Worldview, Miracle], Kleines Islam-Lexikon - Geschichte und Gegenwart, ed. Ralph Elger. Munich (C. H. Beck), 2001 [several reprints to date]
4.	“’Āshiq, Muḥammad”, Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition, Leiden: Brill. 
5.	“Kātib Çelebi, ”Historians of the Ottoman Empire, online bio-bibliography, ed. Hakan Karateke and Cemal Kafadar, http://www.ottomanhistorians.com/database/html/katibcelebi_en.html
6.	“Katib Çelebi”, “Evliya Çelebi”, Gabor Agoston, Bruce Masters, eds., Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, Facts on File, 2008. 
7.	“Adalet [Justice]”, “America,” “Geography,” “Katib Çelebi”, Dictionnaire de l’Empire Ottoman, ed. Nicholas Vatin and Gilles Veinstein. Paris: L’Harmattan, forthcoming. 
8.	“Kâtip Çelebi’s Cihânnümâ: A text and its history / Kâtip Çelebi’nin Cihannüma’sı: Bir metin ve tarihi,” Kâtip Çelebi - Kitâb-ı Cihannûmâ, ed. Nevzat Bayhan, Bekir Karlığa, Said Öztürk, Istanbul: İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2008, pp. 22-33. 
9.	“A Mirror of the World / Dünyanın bir aynası”, Vefatının 350. Yılında Kâtip Çelebi [On the occasion of the 350th anniversary of Kâtip Çelebi’s death]. Istanbul Municipality, Istanbul 2007 [accompanying a symposium under the same title, October 19-21, 2007], pp. 79-89. 
10.	“Bahāʾī Meḥmed Efendi,”  Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition, Leiden: Brill. [submitted]

D. Book Reviews

1.	Gregor Schoeler: Arabische Handschriften 2, Verzeichnis der  orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland (VOHD), vol.  XVII B 2. Stuttgart 1990.  Der Islam 77/1 (2000), pp. 32-37.
2.	Rosemarie Quiring-Zoche: Arabische Handschriften 3, VOHD XVII B 3; Der Islam 77/1 (2000), pp. 32-37.
3.	Wolfdieter Hütteroth/Nejat Göyünç: Land an der Grenze. Osmanische Verwaltung im türkisch-syrisch-irakischen Grenzgebiet im 16. Jahrhundert. Istanbul 1997. Der Islam 78 (2001), 204-206.
4.	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu (ed.): Osmanlı Devleti ve Medeniyeti Tarihi. C. II. Istanbul (IRCICA), 1998. Archivum Ottomanicum 17 (1999), 315-318.
5.	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu (ed.): Osmanlı Astronomi Literatürü Tarihi. I-II. Istanbul (IRCICA), 1997. Archivum Ottomanicum 17 (1999), 318-320
6.	Suraiya Faroqhi: Approaching Ottoman History. An Introduction to the Sources. Cambridge University Press,1999. Archivum Ottomanicum, 18 (2000), 309-314. 
7.	Ahmet Yaşar Ocak: Osmanlı Toplumunda Zındıklar ve Mülhidler (15.-17. Yüzyıllar). Istanbul (Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları) 1998. xxii, 418 pp. Archivum Ottomanicum, 18 (2000), 314-318.
8.	Les traditions apocalyptiques au tournant de la chute de Constantinople. Édité par Benjamin Lellouch et Stéphane Yerasimos. Varia Turcica, XXXIII. Paris, Montréal (L’Harmattan), 1999. MESA Bulletin, 35/1 (Summer 2001), 94-95.
9.	Bruce Masters, Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab World: The Roots of Sectarianism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 45,3 (2002), 407-409. 
10.	Amy Singer: Constructing Ottoman Beneficence. An Imperial Soup Kitchen in Jerusalem. SUNY Press, 2002. H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences/H-TURK (http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=102731057481715)
11.	Evliya Çelebi ve Seyahatname. Yayına Hazırlayanlar Nuran Tezcan, Kadir Atlansoy. Gazimagusa, Cyprus: Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2002. 262 pp. ISBN 975-8401-10-6 (pbk.). Archivum Ottomanicum 21 (2003), 341-4. 
12.	Ramazan Sesen, Islâm Cografyacılarına Göre Türkler ve Türk Ülkeleri [The Turks and the Turkish Lands according to the Islamic Geographers]. 2nd revised edition. Atatürk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu. Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayınları, VII. Dizi, Sayı 173. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu, 2001. VIII, 300 pp., paperback. Journal of the Turkish Studies Association. 
13.	Nicolas Vatin, Gilles Veinstein, Le Sérail ébranlé. Essai sur les morts, dépositions et avènements des sultans ottomans XIVe-XIXe siècle. Paris: Fayard, 2003. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient.  
14.	Osman II and the Cultural History of Ottoman Historiography: review of Gabriel Piterberg. _An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play_. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. xv + 256 pp. Index. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-520-23836-2. H-Turk@h-net.msu.edu (March 2006): http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=8331153159749 
15.	Dina Le Gall, A Culture of Sufism: Naqshbandis in the Ottoman World, 1450-1700. SUNY Series in Medieval Middle East History. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. xii + 285 pp., hardback, $45.00. ISBN 0-7914-6245-5. Journal of Semitic Studies, 52 (2007), 2, 412-414. 
16.	Jonathan Brockopp, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Muḥammad, Cambridge University Press, 2010. JAOS 132.3 (2012), 489-491. 
17.	Florian Zemmin, Islamische Verantwortungsethik im 17. Jahrhundert: ein weberianisches Verständnis der Handlungsvorstellungen Kātib Čelebis (1609 - 1657). Bonner Islamstudien, herausgegeben von Stephan Conermann, 26. Berlin: EB Verlag, 2011. Der Islam 90 (2013): 2, 444-453. 
18.	In preparation: ,Journey to the Sublime Porte. The Arabic Memoir of a Sharifian Agent’s Diplomatic Mission to the Ottoman Imperial Court in the era of Suleyman the Magnificent. The relevant text of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Nahrawālī’s al-Fawāʾid al-sanīyah fī al-riḥlah al-Madanīyah wa al-Rūmīyah, Introduced, Translated and Annotated by Richard Blackburn. Beiruter Texte und Studien, 109. Beirut: Orient-Institut, Würzburg: Ergon Verlag in Kommission, 2005. For Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes. 

E. Other Media

Turkish Life in Pictures
Online image database for teachers and students of Turkish, in collaboration with Dayla Rogers and Lynne Crandall, hosted by University of Michigan Digital Library. 
http://images.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?c=tlpic 

One of the lead narrators in a documentary on Kâtip Çelebi, produced by Turkish State TV (TRT) in 2009
http://aregem.kulturturizm.gov.tr/TR,12578/katip-celebi-belgeseli.html

In Progress: 
Muslims in Michigan
Presentation of a collection of videos on Muslim Life in Michigan, part of project sponsored by the Social Science Research Council Program “Muslims in the Public Sphere” 

LECTURES AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

1. XIth Congress of the Comité International d’Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes (CIÉPO), Amsterdam, July 1994: Kâtib Çelebi and Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi. 

2. AFEMAM/EURAMES Conference, Aix-en-Provence, July 1996: Katib Celebi’s First Gihannnüma. 

3. XIIth Congress of the Comité International d’Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes (CIÉPO), Praha, September 1996: The Traveller Mehmed Asiq.

4. 35th International Congress of Asian and North African Studies (ICANAS), Budapest, July 1997: The time and life of the Prophet Muhammad in Ottoman world histories. 
An enlarged version of this paper was read at a conference at the Institut für Sprachen und Kulturen des Nahen Orients sowie für Turkologie, Munich University, in November 1997. 

5. Workshop of the Comité International d’Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes (CIÉPO): The State of Ottoman Studies at the End of the 20th Century, held within the 35th ICANAS, Budapest, July 1997: Some considerations on the study of Ottoman geographical writings. 

6. The Ottoman Empire during the First World War, workshop held at Koç University, Istanbul, July 1998: Biographies of the Prophet Muhammed on the eve of WWI.

7. XIIIth Congress of the Comité International d’Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes (CIÉPO), Vienna, September 1998: History and story-telling: Ottoman accounts of the battle of Badr. 

8. 27. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Bonn, September/October 1998: Das Problem der Satanischen Verse in den osmanischen Prophetenbiographien.

9. Workshop "Identität und Abgrenzung im Donau-Balkan-Raum", Jena, October 1998: Das Fremde im Eigenen - Mehmed ‘Asıqs Reisen über den osmanischen Balkan.

10. European Science Foundation: Program "Individual and Society in the Mediterranean Muslim World", 4.3. "Power relationships" (Team Leader Professor Paul Dumont): "Rule and Individual in the Ideal Community - Ottoman Views of Muhammad in Medina", Universität Heidelberg, Institut für Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients, February 11, 1999.

11. 4. Deutsche Turkologenkonferenz, Hamburg, March 1999: Träume als Sinnstiftung: Überlegungen zu Traum und historischem Denken bei den Osmanen.

12. Sonderforschungsbereich "Identität und Alterität", Universität Freiburg/Br., Germany, Arbeitsladen Genealogie, July 5, 1999: Genealogie bei den osmanischen Türken.

13. Carsten-Niebuhr-Colloquium, Eutin, Germany, October 7-9, 1999:
Unter den "Tyrannen seiner Araber" - Carsten Niebuhr in Konstantinopel.

14. Bayerisches Orient-Kolloquium, University of Bamberg, June 2000
Die Prophetenvita und das Bild der idealen Gemeinschaft in frühosmanischer Zeit.

15. Turkish Studies Colloquium, University of Michigan, Center for Middle East and North African Studies, November 13, 2000
Mustafa Darir’s Life of the Prophet Muhammed: Tracing a Book through Ottoman Cultural History. 

16. Annual Conference of MESA, Orlando, Florida, November 2000
Panel: Notions of Legitimacy in the Ottoman and Arab World
Presentation: The Quest for the Ideal Community in Late Medieval Anatolia

17. Workshop "Authority and Legitimacy in the Ottoman Empire", German Oriental Institute, Istanbul, in cooperation with Bosphorus University, July 6-7, 2001:
Presentation: The Disruption of the Ideal Order by Oppression: Nizam, Adalet, and Zulm

18. Workshop on Experts and Expertise in Pre- and Early Modern Societies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 6-7, 2001
Presentation: How God teaches Man: Historiography, Geography, and Advice to Kings in Ottoman Society.

19. Annual Conference of MESA, San Francisco, California, November 2001
Organizer of Panel: The sira as literature: Edification and Entertainment.
Presentation: The Prophet’s Childhood as Described in Ottoman Texts

20. XVth Congress of the Comité International d’Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes (CIÉPO). London, London School of Economics, July 8-12, 2002: Hagiography as a source of Ottoman history. 

21. Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, San Diego, California, Oct. 3-6, 2002
Panel: There, and Back Again. German-Turkish Encounters.
Presentation: The Enemy as an Example? 17th Century Ottoman Views of Germany. 

22. Turkish Studies Colloquium, University of Michigan, Oct. 18, 2002
Writing up Ottoman History
Participant in the panel discussion. 

23. Annual Conference of MESA, Washington D.C., Nov. 23-26, 2002
Panel Reviving the Study of Ottoman Islam: A Review of Potential Sources (Sponsored by the Turkish Studies Association)
Panel Organizer
Presentation: The Prophet Muhammad and Ottoman Forms of Piety

24. Annual Conference of MESA, November 2002: 
Roundtable on Turkish Teaching Materials organized by AATT
Presentation: What are we using: A few remarks on textbooks for Turkish in German 

25. Turkish-American Cultural Association of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 14, 2003: 
East and West, Past and Present in Orhan Pamuk’s “The White Castle”

26. University of Michigan, CMENAS, March 21-22, 2003: “Earth and Sky: Islamic Science in the Ottoman Period”, Symposium and workshop
Presentation: Islamic Geography in a Nutshell

27. “Earth and Sky: Islamic Astronomy and Geography”, University of Michigan, March 27, 2004
Introduction

28. Turkey’s Treasures through Ottoman Eyes
Presentation to the Turkish Students Association, University of Michigan
April 2, 2004

29. 4th Conference of ACLA, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 15-18, 2004
Panel “Sacred Tropes”
Presentation: Filling the narrative gaps in the Quran: Stories of the Prophets

30. Workshop:  The Dissemination and Teaching of Turkish Literature in English Translation 
University of Washington, Seattle, May 7-8, 2004

31. 29. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Halle, Germany, September 20-24th
Panel “Der epische Held / The Epic Hero”, September 21-23
Presentation: Heroes and Saints in Early Ottoman Literature

32. Annual Conference of MESA, November 2004
Panel: Writing the history of Ottoman literature (Walter Andrews, University of Washington)
Presentation: Ottoman “Heroic” Narratives: Problems of Genre, Form, Function

33. Knight-Wallace House, University of Michigan, February 10, 2005
Turkey: Bridge or Paradox?

34. Comparative Perspectives on the Middle East: A joint CMENAS/NES colloquium series at the University of Michigan, February 25, 2005
“The image of the Prophet Muhammad”

35. Michigan Council of the Social Sciences, Annual Conference March 1-2, 2005
Presentation: The Turkish Year Cycle of Holidays

36. University of Michigan, Turkish Studies Colloquium, March 12, 2005
“The Ottoman Heroic Age – Literary Evidences” 

37. The Veneration of the Prophet Muhammad
Mini-Conference on the Occasion of the Birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University, April 22, 2005
“The Image of the Prophet Muhammad: The Word and the Visual”
Another version of this lecture has been presented to the Southern Baptist Church, Bloomington, Indiana, April 23, 2005

38. Die Entstehung der pietas Ottomanica. 
Universität Bamberg, July 7, 2005
Another version was presented at the Universität of Hamburg, Dec. 7, 2005

39. The Emergence of a pietas Ottomanica. 
Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop, DePaul University, Sept. 23-24, 2005

40. To What End did the Ottomans Study Geography? 
NES/CMENAS Colloquium Series: Comparative Perspectives on the Middle East, Oct. 2, 2005

41. Early Ottoman History
University of Michigan Learning in Retirement Program, Oct. 27, 2005

42. Religious Narratives and Ottoman Identity in the 15th Century
Annual Conference of MESA, Washington, D.C., Nov. 20, 2005, panel “Ottoman Identity in the 15th century” (organized by Linda Darling)

43. The Middle East: A practical overview
Preparing Global Citizens: 50th Annual MCSS [Michigan Council for the Social Studies] Learning Conference and Great Lakes Regional Social Studies Conference, Grand Rapids, MI,  Feb. 1, 2006

44. The Muhammadan Turn in Ottoman Muslim Religiosity
Columbia University Ottoman Workshop, April 21, 2006

45. Geography as a useful science: The Ottoman case
Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Middle East
Conference at Harvard University, May 5-6, 2006

46. Deconstructing the Ottoman Book
21st Middle East History and Theory Conference, University of Chicago, May 12-13, 2006
Roundtable in honor of Prof. Robert Dankoff

47. Image and Icon: Visual representations of the Prophet Muhammad
Calvin College, Oct. 4, 2006

48. Muhammad-centered piety in the Ottoman Empire
Ohio State University, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Oct. 30, 2006

49. Saintly past, contentious present: a political reading of the Vilayetname of Hacı Bektaş
Sebeb-i Telif: Symposium on Ottoman Sources, Harvard University, Nov. 16-17, 2006

50. "Minorities" in a Multi-Ethnic and Multi-National Empire: Life in an Ottoman Balkan Town
University of Michigan, CMENAS/NES Colloquium Series: Comparative Perspectives on the Middle East - Middle East Minorities, Jan. 12, 2007

51. Blick, Macht, Gerechtigkeit und Geographie: Zur visuellen Kultur der Osmanen
University of Bamberg, July 16th, 2007 (later versions were held at UM/NES, April 7, 2008, and at the Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop, Notre Dame University, April 13, 2008

52. Ego, Autopsy, and Authority: The Geographer’s Dilemma
Ego-Dokumente in nahöstlichen Kulturen, University of München, June 26-28, 2007

53. Kamel, Taube, Hirsch: Die Tierlegenden im Türkischen Mevlid. 
Die Wunder der Schöpfung: Mensch und Natur in der türksprachigen Welt. Freie Universität Berlin, July 26-28, 2007

54. Visualization of Space in Ottoman Culture and Kâtip Çelebi’s Maps. 
Vefatının 350. Yılında Kâtip Çelebi [On the occasion of the 350th anniversary of Kâtip Çelebi’s death], Istanbul Municipality, October 19-21, 2007

55. Playing Piano in Istanbul
Turkish Studies Colloquium, University of Michigan, February 21, 2008
Revised presentation on board of Le Boréal, traveling from Istanbul to Athens, Sept. 9, 2010

56. Knowledge of the Prophet Muhammad as Body of Knowledge
Constituting Bodies of Islamic Knowledge, Northwestern University Evanston, November 7-8, 2008

57. Dreaming Osmans: of history and meaning
Annual Conference of MESA, Nov. 2008
A revised and enlarged version was presented at: Dreams in Sufi Islam, University of Michigan, April 2-3, 2009 

58. Blasphemy in Defense of Piety
Comparative Perspectives at the Middle East: Religion and the Subversive, UM CMENAS, Fall 2008

59. Geography as Useful Science
Comparative Perspectives at the Middle East: Cosmography, Geography, and Cosmology in the Middle East, UM CMENAS, Winter 2009

60. Propriety and Regulation of Speech in the 17th-Century Ottoman Empire
6th Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop, April 17-18, 2009

61. Siret und Surat: Vita and Model
«Didaktisches Erzählen. Spielarten literarischer Belehrung in Orient und Okzident», Freie Universität Berlin, Oct. 9, 2009

62. Autopsy, Subjectivity, and Authority: The Traveler’s Dilemma
Annual Conference of MESA, Nov. 21, 2010 (read in absence)

63. Evliya Çelebi’nin Papamonta’sına Dair Mulahazât [Deliberations about Evliya Çelebi’s Papamonta]
Symposium “Evliya Çelebi’nin Yazılı Kaynakları” [Evliya Çelebi’s Written Sources], Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, Istanbul, June 17-18, 2010. 

64. Justice, Cartography, Perspective: Thoughts on Ottoman Visual Culture
Istanbul, American Research Institute in Turkey, July 26, 2010

65. Turkish Linguistic Nationalism, UM, CMENAS Lecture Series “Alphabet Wars”, Fall 2011

66. “A pure gilded tongue”: Ottoman multilingualism and translation, NES Lecture series, Dec. 5, 2011

67. Time and Narrative in Ottoman Maps
The Cultural History of Cartography, University of Michigan, Oct. 25-6, 2012
Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop, University of Guelph, Mar. 30-31, 2013

68. Sub Specie Aeternitatis: Concepts of Time in Ottoman Historiography
Central European University, Budapest, Nov. 29, 2012

69. Die osmanische mental map im Wandel [The evolution of the Ottoman mental map]
Türkei-Europa-Zentrum, Universität Hamburg, Dec. 11, 2012

70. Ottoman Encyclopedism in the Age of Lewinus Warner
Symposium “Turcksche Boucken” [Turkish Books], Leiden University, Den Haag, Dec. 14, 2012

71. The Cultural Conversion of Meḥmed İḫlāṣī, Translator
Translations, Translators, and Converts:  Transmission of Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century Ottoman Lands, University of Chicago, March 1-2, 2013

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Modern Turkish	Introduction to Modern Turkish, elementary and intermediate level
	Selected Texts from Classical Modern Turkish Literature
	Modern Turkish Scholarly Texts
	Views of Germany in the Literature of Turkish Migrant Workers
	The Past as an Allegory of the Present: Orhan Pamuk’s Beyaz Kale

Ottoman Turkish	Introduction to Ottoman Turkish
	Ottoman Paleography
	The Kadızade Movement as seen in Katib Çelebi’s Mizanü l-hakk
	Hüseyn Tugi’s Account of Vak’a-i Sultan Osman Han
	Müneccimbası on the Ottoman Dynasty
	The Universe in Time and Space
	17th-Century Ottoman Discourses
	Saints and Society

Turkish Studies	Introduction to Turkish Civilizations
	An Outline of Ottoman History
	Ottoman Turkish Culture
	Literature of the Turks
	Turkey: Language, Culture, Society between East and West
	Social and Intellectual History in the Ottoman Period: Biographical Approaches

South Eastern European Studies	
	Introduction to South Eastern European Studies (University of Jena, together with Prof. Dr. G. Schubert, Slavic Studies, Prof. Dr. St. Plaggenborg, Eastern European History, Prof. Dr. W. Dahmen, Rumanian Studies, C. Sode, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies)
	Multi-ethnic and Multi-religious Life in the Balkans: A Case Study of Bitola/Manastır (University of Jena,together with C. Sode, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies)
	Macrohistory and microhistory: The case of an Ottoman Balkan town

Islamic Studies	Viewing the Orient from within and from without: A comparison of Arabic, Ottoman and European travel accounts (University of Jena,together with Judith Zepter, Islamic Studies)
	Geographers & Cartographers: Shaping the Premodern World (together with Michael Bonner, NES, and Diane Owen Hughes, History)
	First-year Seminar Classical Islamic Literature
	The Prophet Muhammad in Islam: History, Literature, Culture
	Geography, Cartography, and Travel in the Muslim Middle East (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Summer School, 2007)

Near Eastern Studies	
	Comparative Minicourse/Brown Bag in Near Eastern Studies (Coordinator)
	The Study of the Modern Middle East (Graduate Seminar)