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LINDA T. DARLING
Curriculum Vitae
Department of History 3121 N. Gill Avenue
The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85719
Tucson, AZ 85721 (520) 326-0582
(520) 621-9754/1586 [email protected]
(520) 621-2422 (fax) November 2013
INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION AND STATUS:
Professor, Department of History, University of Arizona
EMPLOYMENT:
2013-present Professor, Department of History, University of Arizona
1996-2013 Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Arizona
1989-1996 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Arizona
1986-1989 Administrator, American Research Institute in Turkey, Philadelphia
1986 Instructor in Middle East History, Office of Continuing Education, University
of Chicago
1981-1983 Accessions and Serials Processor, Near East Collection, University of Chicago
Library
1980-1981 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Islamic Civilization, Division of the Social
Sciences, University of Chicago
EDUCATION:
1978-1990 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637
PhD, History, March 1990
Dissertation: "The Ottoman Finance Department and the Assessment and
Collection of the Cizye and Avarz Taxes, 1560-1660"
Director: Halil Inalcik
1967-1969, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637
1973 MAT, English/Education
1963-1967 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268
BA, English Literature
PUBLICATIONS, BOOKS:
A History of Social Justice and Political Power in the Middle East: The Circle of Justice from
Mesopotamia to Globalization (London: Routledge Press, 2013).
Revenue-Raising and Legitimacy: Tax Collection and Finance Administration in the Ottoman Empire,
1560-1660 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996).
PUBLICATIONS, ARTICLES:
“Mirrors for Princes in Europe and the Middle East: A Case of Historiographical Incommensur-
ability,” in East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: Transcultural
Experiences in the Premodern World, ed. Albrecht Classen (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2013),
223-42.
"Reformulating the Gazi Question: When Was the Ottoman State a Gazi State?" Turcica 43 (2011):
13-53, published November 2012.
"Ottomans (1299-1924)," in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, ed. Gerhard
Böwering, Patricia Crone, Wadad al-Kadi, Devin Stewart, and M. Qasim Zaman (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2012), 402-3.
"The Mediterranean as a Borderland," Review of Middle East Studies 46.1 (June 2012): 54-63.
“Osmanlı Sınırında Hristiyan-Müslüman Etkileşimi: Erken Dönem Osmanlı Tarihinde Gaza ve
Yerleşim,” in Osmanlı Hoşgörüsü, ed. Kemal H. Karpat ve Yetkin Yıldırım (Istanbul: Timaş
Yayınları, 2012), 135-62.
"Ottoman Turkish: Written Language and Scribal Practice, 13th to 20th Centuries," in Literacy in the
Persianate World: Writing and the Social Order, ed. Brian Spooner and William L. Hanaway
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2012), 171-95.
"Murder and Mayhem in Ottoman Rumeli: Local Political Relations in Eighteenth-Century
Macedonia," in Popular Protest and Public Participation in the Ottoman Empire: Studies in
Honor of Suraiya Faroqhi, ed. Eleni Gara, M. Erdem Kabaday, and Christoph K. Neumann
(Istanbul: Bilgi University Press, 2011), 177-95..
“Bj” and “Circle of Justice,” in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three (Leiden: Brill, 2011 and 2012),
83-84, 104-9.
"Christian-Muslim Interaction on the Ottoman Frontier: Gaza a2012nd Accommodation in Early
Ottoman History," in The Ottoman Mosaic: Exploring Models for Peace by Re-Exploring the
Past, ed. Kemal Karpat and Yetkin Yldrm (Seattle: Cune Press, 2010), 103-18.
"The Circle and the Tree: A Vision of Justice in the Middle East," in Historical Dimensions of Islam:
Essays in Honor of R. Stephen Humphreys, ed. James E. Lindsay and Jon Armajani (Princeton:
Darwin Press, 2009), 151-82.
"The Development of Ottoman Governmental Institutions in the Fourteenth Century: A
Reconstruction," in Living in the Ottoman Ecumenical Community: Essays in Honour of Suraiya
Faroqhi, ed. Vera Costantini and Markus Koller (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2008), 17-34.
"Political Change and Political Discourse in the Early Modern Mediterranean World," Journal of
Interdisciplinary History 38.4 (Spring 2008): 505-31.
"Islamic Empires, the Ottoman Empire, and the Circle of Justice," in Constitutional Politics in the
Middle East: With Special Refrence to Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, ed. Said Amir
Arjomand (London: Hart Publishing, 2008), 11-32.
“Ottoman Accounting Prehistory,” in Proceedings of the 12th World Congress of Accounting
Historians, ed. Oktay Güvenli, 3 vols. (Istanbul: 2008), 3: 2421-33.
"Islam," in Encyclopedia of Women in World History, ed. Bonnie G. Smith (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2008); E-reference edition: htpp://www.oxford-womenworldhistory.com/
entry?entry=1248.e520.
"Prolegomena to a Study of Ottoman Administrative Documents and Ilhanid Precedents," in Enjeux
politiques, économiques et militaires en Mer Noire (XIVe-XXIe siècles): Études à la mémoire de
Mihail Guboglu, ed. Faruk Bilici, Ionel Cândea, and Anca Popescu (Braïla: Musée de Braïla
Éditions Istros, 2007), 467-82.
"Social Cohesion (Asabiyya) and Justice in the Late Medieval Middle East," Comparative Studies in
Society and History 49 (2007): 329-57.
"Medieval Egyptian Society and the Concept of the Circle of Justice," Mamluk Studies Review 10
(2006): 1-17.
"Public Finances: The Role of the Ottoman Centre," in The Cambridge History of Turkey, vol. 3: The
Later Ottoman Empire, 1603-1838, ed. Suraiya Faroqhi (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2006), 118-31.
"Osmanlı Maliye Tarihinde Gelir-Toplama ve Meşruiyet" [Revenue-Raising and Legitimacy in
Ottoman Fiscal History], in Osmanlı Maliyesi Kurumlar ve Bütçeler, 2 vols. (Istanbul: Osmanlı
Bankası Arşiv ve Araştırma Merkezi, 2006), 1: 39-50.
"The Prince, the Just Sultan, and the Coming of the Early Modern Era in the Mediterranean," in The
Mediterranean World: The Idea, the Past and Present, ed. Eyüp Özveren, Oktay Özel, Süha
Ünsal, and Kudret Emirolu (Istanbul: letiim, 2006), 47-61.
"Prens, Adil Sultan ve Akdeniz'de Modern Çan Başlangıcı," in Akdeniz Dünyası: Düşünce, Tarih,
Görünüm, ed. Eyüp Özveren, Oktay Özel, Süha Ünsal, and Kudret Emiroğlu (Istanbul: İletişim,
2006), 45-57.
"Mediterranean Borderlands: Early English Merchants in the Levant," in The Ottoman Empire: Myths,
Realities and 'Black Holes', ed. Eugenia Kermeli and Oktay Özel (Istanbul: sis Press, 2006),
173-88.
"Revisiting the Ottoman Gaza," in IXth International Congress of Economic and Social History of
Turkey (Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu, 2006), 15-24.
National Geographic's Concise History of the World: An Illustrated Time Line, ed. Neil Kagan
(Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2006); consultant, writing and editing entries on the
Middle East from prehistory to the present.
"Persianate Sources on Anatolia and the Early History of the Ottomans," Studies on Persianate
Societies 2 (2004): 126-44.
"Innovations in Document Study," review essay, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 38 (2004):
61-64.
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, ed. Richard Martin (New York: Macmillan Reference
USA, 2004), entries: Erbakan, Necmettin; Jevdet Pasha; Kemal, Namek; Political Organization;
Refah Partisi; Tanzimat.
The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, ed. John L. Esposito (Oxford University Press, 2003), entries: Abd
Allah b. Saba, Alp Arslan, Aurangzeb, Babur, Baybars, Chagatai, Genghis Khan, Ghurids, al-
Mustansir, Pasha, Suleyman the Magnificent.
"'Do Justice, Do Justice, for That is Paradise': Middle Eastern Advice for Indian Muslim Rulers,"
Comparative Studies on South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 22 (2002): 3-19.
"The Renaissance and the Middle East," in A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance, ed. Guido
Ruggiero (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), 55-69.
"Another Look at Periodization in the Ottoman Empire," Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 26
(2002): 19-28.
"The Ottomans and the Renaissance," The Turks (Ankara: Yeni Türkiye, 2002), 3:939-46.
"Osmanlılar ve Rönesans," Türkler (Ankara: Yeni Türkiye, 2002), 11: 840-47.
"Contested Territory: Ottoman Holy War in Comparative Perspective," Studia Islamica 91 (2000):
133-63.
"Finance Documents and Ottoman History: Some Goals for the New Millennium", in The Great
Ottoman-Turkish Civilisation, 4 vols. (Istanbul: Yeni Türkiye Dergisi, 2000), vol. 3, 136-41.
"Malî Belgeler ve Osmanlı Tarihi: Yeni Binyıl Için Bazı Hedefler," in Osmanlı (Istanbul: Yeni
Türkiye Yayınları, 2000).
"Rethinking Europe and the Islamic World in the Age of Exploration," The Journal of Early Modern
History 2 (1998): 221-246.
"Ottoman Provincial Treasuries in Syria," Arab Historical Review for Ottoman Studies 17-18 (1998):
35-37.
"The Syrian Provinces in Ottoman Eyes: Three Historians' Representations of Bilad al-Sham," in
ARAM: The Mamluks and the Early Ottoman Period in Bilad al-Sham: History and Archaeology
9-10 (1997-1998): 347-55.
"Ottoman Provincial Treasuries: The Case of Syria," in Mélanges Halil Sahilliolu, in Arab Historical
Review for Ottoman Studies no. 15-16 (1997): 103-110.
"Ottoman Fiscal Administration: Decline or Adaptation?" The Journal of European Economic History
26 (1997): 157-179.
"Capitulations," in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1995), 257-60.
"Ottoman Politics through British Eyes: Paul Rycaut's The Present State of the Ottoman Empire," The
Journal of World History 5 (1994): 71-97.
"The Finance Scribes and Ottoman Politics," in Decision Making in the Ottoman Empire, ed. Caesar
E. Farah (Kirksville, MO: Thomas Jefferson University Press and University Press of America,
1993), 89-100.
"Ottoman Salary Registers as a Source for Social and Economic History," Turkish Studies Association
Bulletin 14 (1990): 13-33.
"A Treatise on Accounting Methods by an Official of the Ottoman Financial Administration in the
Sixteenth Century," Third International Congress on the Economic and Social History of Turkey,
Proceedings (Istanbul: Isis Press, 1989), 123-26.
"Avarız Tahriri: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Ottoman Survey Registers," Turkish Studies
Association Bulletin 10 (1986): 23-26.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Haim Gerber, State and Society in the Ottoman Empire, in Journal of the Economic and Social History
of the Orient 54.2 (2011): 275-77.
Rudi Paul Lindner, Explorations in Ottoman Prehistory, in Journal of Central Eurasian Studies 2
(May 2011): 105-8.
Hülya Canbakal, Society and Politics in an Anatolian Town: `Ayntab in the 17th Century, in Middle
East Studies Association Bulletin 41 (2007): 188-89.
Ali Çaksu, ed., Proceedings, International Congress on Learning and Education in the Ottoman
World, in Journal of Early Modern History 11 (2007): 543-45.
Antony Black, The History of Islamic Political Thought: From the Prophet to the Present, in Journal
of Early Modern History 11 (2007): 546-48.
Fariba Zarinebaf, John Bennet, and Jack L. Davis, A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman
Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the 18th Century, in MIT-EJMES 7 (Spring 2007): 206-8.
Dick Douwes, The Ottomans in Syria: A History of Justice and Oppression, and Eugene Rogan,
Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire, in The Historian 68 (2006): 813-16.
evket Pamuk, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire, in Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 27
(2004, pub. 2006): 122-28.
A Wall of Silence (video), in The Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 35 (2001): 274-75.
Suraiya Faroqhi, Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire, in History:
Reviews of New Books 30 (2001): 34.
Dina Rizk Khoury, State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire: Mosul, 1540-1834, in The
American Historical Review 106 (2001): 1910.
Mehmed Fuad Köprülü, Some Observations on the Influence of Byzantine Institutions on Ottoman
Institutions, in The Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 35 (2001):93-94.
Godfrey Goodwin, Topkapi Palace: An Illustrated Guide to its Life and Personalities, in The Middle
East Studies Association Bulletin 34 (2000): 240-41.
Comité International d'Études Pre-Ottomanes et Ottomanes, Essays in Ottoman Civilization, in The
Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 34 (2000): 111-12.
Judith E. Tucker, In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine,
in History: Reviews of New Books 28.1 (Fall 1999): 34.
Cemal Kafadar, Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State, in The Historian 61
(1999): 957-58.
Daniel Goffman, Britons in the Ottoman Empire, 1642-1660, in The Middle East Journal 53 (1999):
322-23.
Murat Çizakça, A Comparative Evolution of Business Partnerships: The Islamic World & Europe,
with Special Reference to the Ottoman Archives, in International Journal of Middle East Studies
31 (1999): 298-300.
Justin McCarthy, The Ottoman Turks: An Introductory History to 1923, in History: Reviews of New
Books 27.2 (Winter 1999): 83.
`Ata Malik al-Juvaini, Genghis Khan: The History of the World-Conqueror, in Middle East Studies
Association Bulletin 32 (1998).
Donald Quataert, ed., Manufacturing in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, 1500-1950, and Donald
Quataert, Ottoman Manufacturing in the Age of the Industrial Revolution, in Journal of Near
Eastern Studies 57 (1998): 60-62.
Metin Kunt and Christine Woodhead, eds., Süleyman the Magnificent and His Age: The Ottoman
Empire in the Early Modern World, in History: Reviews of New Books 25.2 (Winter 1997): 86.
Virginia H. Aksan, An Ottoman Statesman in War and Peace: Ahmed Resmi Efendi, 1700-1783, in
Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 19, no.2 (Fall 1995): 68-71.
Leila Tarazi Fawaz, An Occasion for War: Civil Conflict in Lebanon and Damascus in 1860, in MESA
Bulletin 19, no. 1 (Spring 1995): 235-36.
Cyril E. Black and L. Carl Brown, eds., Modernization in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire and
Its Afro-Asian Successors, in Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 19 (1995): 115-17.
Rifaat `Ali Abou-El-Haj, Formation of the Modern State: The Ottoman Empire, Sixteenth to
Eighteenth Centuries, in International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 25 (1993): 118-20; 26
(1994): 555-56.
Sydney Nettleton Fisher and William Ochsenwald, The Middle East: A History, in Turkish Studies
Association Bulletin 16, no. 2 (September 1992, issued April 1993): 255-57.
Mohammed Sawaie, ed., Arabic-Speaking Immigrants in the United States and Canada: A
Bibliographic Guide with Annotations, in MELA Notes 40 (Winter 1987): 21-22.
IN PRESS:
“Ottoman Taxation and Legitimacy in Comparative Perspective,” Eurasian History: Contributions to
the History, Culture and Civilization, ed. Stoica Lascu, foreword by Jacob M. Landau (Braila:
Istros Publishing House, forthcoming in 2013).
“‘The Vicegerent of God, from Him We Expect Rain’: The Pre-Islamic State in Early Islamic Political
Culture,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, November 2012.
"Political Literature and the Development of an Ottoman Imperial Identity," in Turkish Studies
Association Journal, and Guest Editor for issue on Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Identities, 2012.
"Avarz in 1501," in Halil İnalcık Armağanı, ed. Nejat Göyünç, Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont, and
Özer Ergenç (Istanbul: Eren Yayınları, forthcoming).
“Budget,” “Rise of the Ottomans,” and “Fiscality” in Dictionnaire de l'Empire ottoman, ed. Gilles
Veinstein et al. (Paris, forthcoming).
WORK IN PROGRESS:
“Nasîhatnâmeler, İcmal Defterleri, and the Timar-Holding Ottoman Elite in the Late Sixteenth
Century,” article submitted to Osmanlı Araştırmaları.
“Customs Dues,” submitted to The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming).
“Justice and Power in the Ottoman Empire: Translations of Two Imperial Adâletnâmeler (Justice
Decrees),” article for Dankoff festschrift.
“Justice and Social Justice in Twentieth-Century Egypt,” an article for a Carl Smith festschrift.
"‘But We Thought that Everything Could Be Rectified’: Justice and the ‘Bourgeois Patronage State’ in
the Middle East," article manuscript.
“Empire and Elites in the Ottoman Seventeenth Century,” a book-length study on Ottoman political
elites.
“The Process of Elite Replacement in an Early Modern Bureaucratic Empire: Ottoman Military/
Administrative Elites in an Era of Consolidation,” invited paper for panel, Elites in Bureaucratic
Empires, EHSSC, Vienna, April 2014.
“Taxation, Elites, and Rulers in the Ottoman Empire,” invited paper for NYU conference, Taxation
and Sovereignty, Florence, Italy, May 14-16, 2014.
“Which Way the Empire? Ottoman Sultans Versus Advice Writers, Late Sixteenth-Early Seventeenth
Centuries,” invited paper for Halcyon Days in Crete, January 2015.
Study on Ilkhanid finance manuals and Ottoman documents.
Study on 17th-century Syrian budgets.
Study on customs registers.
Study on adâletnâmeler.
Study on 17th-century avarz.
Review of Emine Fetvacı, Picturing History at the Ottoman Court, for International Journal of Middle
East Studies.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS:
“The Ottoman Army in the Mediterranean Context: Military and Social Transformation in the Late
Sixteenth Century,” International Congress on Ottoman Social and Economic History, Alcala,
Spain, October 1-5, 2013.
“Revisiting the Timar System: Historiography and New Research,” Western Ottoman Workshop,
UCLA, March 2-3, 2013.
“Men and Places in the Ottoman Military of the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries,”
American Historical Association, New Orleans, January 3-6, 2013.
“The Circle of Justice in the Ottoman Context,” Invited paper at Sabanc University, Istanbul,
November 27, 2012.
“The Ottoman ‘Decline’ Literature as a Social Phenomenon: An Interim Report,” at “Moralism,
Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600-1800,” Clark Library conference,
November 16-17, 2012.
“The Question of the Identities of Ottoman ‘Knights’ in the Sixteenth Century,” UAMARRC Work-
In-Progress Symposium, November 9, 2012.
“Justice and Power in the Middle East,” MENAS Colloquium Series, U of Arizona, October 12, 2012.
“Iran's Western Frontier in Anatolia and the Rise of the Ottoman Empire,” International Society for
Iranian Studies Conference, Istanbul, August 1-4, 2012..
“Advice Literature: A Meeting of East and West?” at “East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early
Modern Time,” University of Arizona, May 2012.
“Who Were the Timar Holders? An Investigation of Ottoman Military/Land Records,” The Austin
History Group, Turkic Cultures Student Organization, University of Texas, April 5, 2012
(invited).
“Qualifications of an Ottoman, According to the Advice Writers of the Seventeenth Century,” at
Middle East Studies Association Convention, Washington DC, 1-4 December 2011.
“Advice Literature as a Transnational Phenomenon,” at “Well-Connected Domains: Intersections of
Asia and Europe in the Ottoman Empire,” Universität Heidelberg, 10-12 November 2011
(invited).
“Empire and Elites in the Ottoman Seventeenth Century: Sources and Methods,” Institute for
Historical Studies, University of Texas, October, 2011 (invited).
“Provincial Government and Elite Competition Seen Through the Advice Literature,” International
Congress on Ottoman Social and Economic History, Retz, Austria, July 2011.
"Empire and Elites in the Ottoman Seventeenth Century," Western Ottoman Workshop, UC Davis,
April 2011.
"Ottoman Borderlands, Frontiers, and Contact Zones," keynote address, "The Ottoman Empire as a
Contact Zone," Princeton University, June 2010 (invited).
"The Mediterranean as a Borderland," at “The Mediterranean and World History,” University of
California, Riverside, June 2010 (invited).
"Justice and the Problem of Ottoman Decline," NES Colloquium Series, October 2009.
"Advice for the Ottoman 'Time of Troubles': Post-Classical Politics and Seventeenth-Century Critics,"
University of California San Diego, June 2009 (invited).
"The Circle of Justice: A Window on Ottoman Politics in the Seventeenth Century," University of
California Riverside, June 2009 (invited).
"The Ottoman Gaza in the Context of the Crusades," guest lecture in "The Crusades," History
405/505, April 24, 2009.
"Another Solution for the Problem of Ottoman Holy War," UAMARRC Work-in-Progress
Symposium, Tucson, April 2009.
"Ottoman Identity in the Formative Period," Middle East Studies Association Convention,
Washington, DC, November 2008.
"Being or Becoming? Ghaza in Early Ottoman Identity," at Crusade, Jihad, and Identity in the
Medieval Mediterranean World, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, October 2008.
"Ottoman Accounting Prehistory," 12th World Congress on Accounting History, Istanbul, July 2008
(invited).
"Money and Power in the Ottoman Provincial Government of Syria: An Overview," International
Congress on Ottoman Social and Economic History, Ankara, Turkey, June 2008.
"Westernization or Ottoman Modernization? The Tanzimat and the Circle of Justice," Middle East
Studies Association Convention, Montreal, November 2007.
"The Circle and the Tree: A Vision of Justice in the Middle East," festschrift conference for R.
Stephen Humphreys, St. Joseph, MN, October 2007 (invited).
"The Avarz Registers and Ottoman Demography," First International Conference on Ottoman
Economic history, Marmara University, Istanbul, September 2007 (invited).
"Holy War and the Rise of the Ottomans: Myth and Evidence," Michigan State University, April 2007
(invited).
"Christian-Muslim Interaction on the Ottoman Frontier: Ghaza and Accommodation in Early Ottoman
History," at “Diversity in the Ottoman Empire,” University of Texas, Austin, March 2007
(invited).
"Mongol to Ottoman: The Transfer of Finance Administration between Empires," University of
Arizona Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Committee Symposium, October 2006.
"Rhetorics of Justice and Practices of Power in Mamluk Egypt," ARCE/IFAO Project, "The Exercise
of Power in the Age of the Sultanates," Cairo, March 2006 (invited).
"Political Literature and the Development of an Ottoman Imperial Culture," Middle East Studies
Association Convention, Washington, DC, November 2005.
"The Persianate Frontier on the Mediterranean: Aksarayi and the Rise of the Ottoman Empire,"
International Congress on the Economic and Social History of Turkey, Venice, September 2005.
"Political Change across the Mediterranean: The Evidence of Machiavelli and His Middle Eastern
Contemporaries," CMES Colloquium Series, University of Arizona, September 2005.
"Governance and Justice in the Middle East," IISL Conference, Constitutional Reconstruction in the
Middle East, Oñati, Spain, April 2005 (invited).
"Asabiyya and Justice during the Mamluk Period," ARCE/IFAO Project, "The Exercise of Power in
the Age of the Sultanates," Cairo, March 2005 (invited).
"The Circle and the Tree: Metaphors for Justice in the Modern Middle East," University of Chicago
Center for Middle East Studies, October 2004.
"Revenue-Raising and Legitimacy in Ottoman History," Conference in Honor of Halil Inalcik,
Harvard University, April 2004 (invited).
"Ideologies and Practices of Justice in Medieval Egypt," American Research Center in Egypt
Conference, Tucson, April 2004.
"The Prince, the Just Sultan, and the Coming of the Early Modern Era," University of Arizona
Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Committee Symposium, Sept. 2003.
"A Discourse on Justice in the Late Fifteenth Century Mediterranean World," Mediterranean Studies
Association, Budapest, Hungary, July 2003.
"The Prince, the Just Sultan, and the Coming of the Early Modern Era in the Mediterranean," at a
conference on The Mediterranean as a Constitutive Element in Europe, Nüvis Research in
Humanities, Antakya, Turkey, June 2003.
"Understanding Justice in the Middle East," University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, series Understanding
Islam in the Middle East, October 2002 (invited).
"Justice and Power in the Medieval Middle East," University of Arizona Medieval, Renaissance, and
Reformation Committee Symposium, September 2002.
"The Circle of Justice in the Modern Middle East," Center for Middle Eastern Studies Brownbag
Series, April 2002.
"Justice and Political Legitimacy in the Middle East," Morris K. Udall Center for Public Policy,
October 2001 (invited).
"Revisiting the Ottoman Gaza," International Congress on the Economic and Social History of
Turkey, Dubrovnik, August 2001.
"Contested Territory: The Ottomans and Holy War," History Department Brown Bag, March 1999.
"Syria in the Ottoman Imperial Imagination," Middle East Studies Association, Chicago, December
1998.
"The Syrian Provinces in Ottoman Eyes: Three Historians' Representations," International Congress
on the Economic and Social History of Turkey, Bursa, Turkey, June 1998.
"The Syrian Provinces in Ottoman Eyes," Conference on the Early Ottoman Period (16th and 17th
Centuries) in Bilad al-Sham, ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies, Beirut, Lebanon,
April 1998.
"Women and Scholarship in Turkey," Mini-Conference on Women in Middle East Scholarship: The
Last Decade, University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies, October 1997 (invited).
"Europe and Islam," The Globalization of Western Europe, A Teacher Institute for Oregon High
School Teachers, Oregon Council for the Humanities, Portland, OR, June 1997 (invited).
"On the Mediterranean Frontier: English Merchants in the Levant," Arizona Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies Conference on "Crossing Boundaries: Issues of Cultural and Individual
Identity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance," Tempe, AZ, February 1997.
"Ottoman Provincial Finance Administration: The Syrian Provinces," Middle East Studies
Association, Providence, November 1996.
"Ottoman Provincial Treasuries: The Case of Syria," Conference on Society and State in the Arab
Lands in the Ottoman Period, Fondation Temimi, Zaghouan, Tunisia, October 1996.
"Ottoman Concepts of Legitimacy," and comment on Karen Barkey's Bandits and Bureaucrats, Social
Science History Association, New Orleans, October 1996.
"Ottoman Expansion, 1300-1600," and "Ottoman Women (and Men)" for NEH Summer Seminar,
University of Arizona, June 1996.
"Revising the Ottoman Decline Paradigm," International Congress on the Economic and Social
History of the Ottoman Empire, Heidelberg, Germany, July 1995.
"Decline, Decentralization, and Other Myths about the Ottoman Empire," Turkish Students
Association, April 1995 (invited).
"From Inspiration to Book: The Ottoman Finance Department," Middle East Center Brown Bag
Series, December 1994.
"Revenue-Raising and Justice in the 17th-Century Ottoman Empire: Revising the Decline Paradigm,"
University of Chicago, May 1993 (invited).
"Money and Power in the Ottoman State," Columbia University, April 1993 (invited).
"Peasants, Kings, and Taxes in Middle Eastern Agrarian Empires," University of Wisconsin, March
1993 (invited).
"Ottoman and Turkish: Court and Country," U of A Center for Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series,
Middle Eastern Languages: Cultures and Dialects, April 1992 (invited).
"Paul Rycaut and the Ottoman State," Center for Middle Eastern Studies Brownbag Forum, November
1991.
"Image and Event: Ottoman Absolutism Through British Eyes," Western Conference on British
Studies, Tucson, October 1991.
"Procedure as Communication: Administration in the Ottoman Empire," Department of
Communication Brown Bag, April 1991.
"Procedure as Communication: The Ottoman Taxation Process," History Department Brown Bag
Forum, April 1991.
"The Administration of Tax Farming at the Ottoman Center," Middle East Studies Association, San
Antonio, November 1990.
"The Ottoman Empire and Western Europe: Parallel Development in the Early Modern Period,"
Rockefeller Conference on Ottoman History as Part of World History, Washington University/St.
Louis, March 1990 (invited).
"Some Effects of Revenue Shortfall on Ottoman Government and Society," Second Conference on the
Political Economies of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Empires, Harvard University, March
1990 (invited).
"Taxation and Political Relations: The Ottoman Empire in the Seventeenth Century," University of
Arizona, April 1989 (invited).
"Squaring the Circle: Thoughts on the Interpretation of Middle Eastern Political Philosophy," Near
East Symposium, University of Michigan, February 1989 (invited).
"Scribal Service in the Ottoman Empire," Middle East Studies Association, Beverly Hills, CA,
November 1988.
"The Finance Scribes and Ottoman Politics," Comité international d'études pré-ottomanes et
ottomanes, VIIIth Symposium, Minneapolis, August 1988.
"Title Inflation in the Ottoman Bureaucracy," Middle East History and Theory Workshop, University
of Chicago, April 1988.
"Fiscal Administration and Decline in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman and Spanish Empires,"
American Historical Association, Cincinnati, December 1987.
"Initiative and Authority in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Administrative Decision-Making," Middle
East Studies Association, Baltimore, November 1987.
"Was the Ottoman Empire Really Centralized?" Association of Asian Studies, Western Conference,
University of Arizona, October 1987.
"Authority and Initiative in Ottoman 17th-Century Financial Administration," Second International
Conference on Turkic Studies, Indiana University, May 1987.
"The Ottoman Maliye in an Era of Change," Middle East Studies Association, Boston, November
1986.
"The Ottoman Bureaucracy in an Era of Change," Middle East History and Theory, University of
Chicago, April 1986.
"Avariz Tahriri: Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Survey Registers," Middle East Studies
Association, New Orleans, November 1985.
"A Treatise on Accounting Methods by an Official of the Ottoman Financial Administration in the
Sixteenth Century," Third International Congress on the Economic and Social History of Turkey,
Princeton University, August 1983.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
2011-12: Sabbatical grant, Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Sabbatical, Fall 2011-Spring 2012
IIE Fulbright Grant, 2011-12, declined
Fernand Braudel Center, European University, Florence, Italy, declined
Small Grant, SBSRI, University of Arizona
2010: Small Grant, SBSRI, University of Arizona
2009: Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Grant, Teach Ottoman Empire!
2008: Small Grant, SBSRI, University of Arizona
2004: Mini-Grant, SBSRI, University of Arizona
Sabbatical, Fall 2004-Spring 2005
2003: Research Grant, Institute of Turkish Studies, Washington, DC
Travel Grant, Office of International Programs, University of Arizona
Mini-Grant and Extension, SBSRI, University of Arizona
2001: Fellowship, Morris K. Udall Center for Public Policy, fall semester
2001: Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Grant, Teach Turkey!
1999: Mini-Grant, SBSRI, University of Arizona
1998: Travel Grant, Office of International Programs
1996: Summer Research Grant, American Research Institute in Turkey
1995: Mini-Grant, SBSRI, University of Arizona
Travel Grant, Office of International Programs
Travel Grant, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Subvention Award, Provost's Author Support Fund
Outstanding Faculty Member, Mortar Board Honor Society
Outstanding Faculty Member, Golden Key Honor Society
1994: Nominee, UA National Women's History Professor of the Month
1992-93: American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
1991: Summer Research Grant, American Research Institute in Turkey
Mini-Grant, SBSRI, University of Arizona
1990: SBSRI Summer Stipend, University of Arizona
Travel Grant, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Arizona
1987-89: Turkish Studies Awards, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Univ. of Chicago
1986: Dissertation Writing Grant, Institute for Turkish Studies
1985: Research Grant, American Research Institute in Turkey
1983: Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship for Turkey
1982: Bosphorus University Summer Language Program Grant
1981: Center for Arabic Studies Abroad Summer Language Program Grant
1978-81: NDEA Title VI Grants
1978: University of Michigan Summer Language Fellowship for Arabic
1967: Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi
1963-67: National Honor Society Scholarship
University of Connecticut Scholarships
National Merit Finalist
STUDENTS:
Dissertation director: Emine Evered (2005), Serpil Atamaz-Hazar (2009), Ziad Abi-Chakra, Onur Inal,
Seçil Uluışık, Ramon Duarte, Alex Schweig, Ali Atabey, Ana Ghoreishian
Dissertation committee member: Lisa Adeli (2004), Michael Berdine ((2001), Tom DeMayo (2006), Ziad
Fahmy (2006), Deborah Kaye (2004), Susan Maneck (1993), Andrea Giacomuzzi (CCLS, 2005),
Yasmin Hilloowalla (NES 1997), Agnes Kefeli (ASU, 2001), Caroline Audet, Sean Clark, Abraham
Gutmann, Catherine Hinrichs, Gijs Kruijtzer, Al McCarn, Amy Newhouse, Mary Pierce, Vikas
Rathee, Jane Arons (NES) Nayel Badareen (NES), Gülsüm Gurbuz (NES), Mark Voss (NES)
Doctoral exam committee member: Peter Alter, Adam Donaldson, Lizzie Ellis-Marino, Alex Hidalgo,
Samantha Kuhn, James Lockhart, Ignacio Martinez, Steve Neufeld, Jerry Pierce, Pamela Stewart,
James Wadsworth
MA Thesis co-chair: Gülsüm Gurbuz (NES) Rhett Rhees (NES), Timothy Rowe (NES), Alex Schweig
(NES), Robert Wessel (NES)
MA committee member: Sean Clark, William Haltiwanger, Sarah Howard, Jennifer Lloyd, James
Murphy, Jessica Reuther, Jamie Stoops, Megan Vala, Lilya Arakelyan (RussSS), (Sibel Demir
(NES), Julie Ellison (NES), Emine Evered (NES), Ana Ghoreishian (NES), Louise Grubbs (NES),
David Hassinger (NES), Greg Key (NES), Eric McCoy (NES), Sina Mossayeb (NES), Justin Reeves
(RelS), Ruth Rowe (NES), Jeannette Saylor (NES), Sarah Slye (NES), Danielle van Dobben (NES),
Muhammed Seyyit Şen (MENAS)
COURSES TAUGHT:
History 102: Western Civilization from 1648
History 103: Topics in Western Civilization: America and the Middle East
History/NES 381a/b: History of Muslim Societies
History/NES 383: Religion and State in Islam
History/NES 385, then 486/586: Nomad Warriors
History 396A: The Nature and Practice of History
History/NES/WS 445/545: Women in Islamic History (undergrad/grad)
History/NES 478/578: The Modern Middle East (undergrad/grad)
History/NES 479/579: The Ottoman Empire to 1800 (undergrad/grad)
History/NES/RS 487/587, then 444/544: Islamic Mysticism (undergrad/grad)
History/NES 586M: Ottoman Historical Readings
History 695C/H: The Mediterranean, 1300-1800: Graduate Colloquium
History 695C: Muslim Spain Graduate Colloquium
History 695I: World History Graduate Colloquium
History 695K: Historiography
History 695M: Sources for Middle East History
History 695M: Advanced Studies in Ottoman History: The Ottomans and the World
History 696G: European and Comparative Seminar: The Mediterranean as a Borderland
Independent Studies:
History 399: Readings on Petra
History 493: Historical Internship
History 499: Readings on Steppe Nomads
History 499: Readings on the Circle of Justice
History 499H: Readings on the Islamization of Bosnia (Honors)
History 599: Readings on Ottoman Romania
History 599: Readings in Ottoman Historical Texts
History 599: Readings on the Bosnian Problem
History 699: Readings on Ottoman Empire and Coffeehouses
History 699: Readings on Late Ottoman Nationalism
History 699: Readings on Ottoman Women
History 699: Readings on Ottoman Religion
History 699: Readings on the Crusades
History 699: Readings on Society and Gender in the Early Modern Mediterranean
History 699: Readings on Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Society
History 699: Readings on Trade Routes and Transportation in the Muslim World
LANGUAGES:
French, modern Turkish: reading and speaking
Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, German: reading
Latin, Greek, Russian: studied; Persian: self-taught
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Middle East Studies Association
Turkish Studies Association
American Research Institute in Turkey
American Historical Association
World History Association
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Department:
Third Year Review Committee Chair, Farzin Vejdani, 2011
Annual Peer Review Committee, 1998, 2009, 2011, 2013
Committee on New Peer Review Process, 2008-9
Post-Tenure Review Criteria, 1998, 1999, 2003-4, 2008
Graduate Program Support, 2008-9
Director of Graduate Studies, 2005-8
Search Committee, Modern Iranian history, 2007-8
Graduate Committee, 2001-4
Honors Advisor, 2002-4
Undergraduate Advisor, 1995-2000
Convener, World/Comparative History Caucus, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2005
Convener, Middle East Caucus, 2000, 2002-3, 2005-7
Departmental Curriculum Committee, 1999-2001
History News/SBS Updates Liaison, 1998-2001
Prize Committee and Panel Chair, Phi Alpha Theta Conference, 1999
Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1996-97
Departmental External Review Committee, 1996-97
History Articulation Representative, 1997
Advisor for Incoming Students, 1996
"The Razor's Edge" for Reel Treasures: History Department Film Series. 1996
Panelist for Non-West, "Integrating Women's History," 1996
Teaching Tables Coordinator, 1996
Search Committee, Modern Jewish History, 1994
Search Committee, African History, 1991
Co-Coordinator, Brown Bag Forum, 1991-92
Committee on World History, 1991
Committee on Historiography Course, 1990
Committee on Western Civilization Course, 1989
University:
Organizing Committee, Arizona Center for Turkish Studies, 2013-present
History-NES Dual Degrees Committee, 2010-present
Delegate of University of Arizona to ARIT, 1989-present
Collaborator on NEH project of Albrecht Classen, Meeting of East and West in the Middle Ages and
Early Modern Age, 2011-2013.
Executive Board, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 1991-93, 1999-2001, 2004-11
Treasurer, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Arizona, 2007-2011
Panel Chair/Discussant, Annual Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern Studies, UofA,
2000, 2008-11, 2013
Discussant, Panel on Women, History Department Graduate Symposium, UofA, 2013
Search Committee, Modern Turkish Studies (NES), 2003-4, 2008-9
Scholar-Expert, Teach Ottoman Empire!, 2008-9
Guest Lecturer, NES 596D, graduate core course, 2003-2009
Roundtable, "Conference Paper Writing and Delivery," UAMARRC, April 2007
Promotion and Tenure Committee, Near Eastern Studies, 1996-97, 2006
SBS Dean's Audit Committee for Post-Tenure Review Procedures, 2003-4
SBS Curriculum Committee, 1993-2001
Principal Investigator, Teach Turkey!, 2000-2001
Convener, CMES Middle East Environmental History Group, 2000-2001
CMES Turkish Studies Group, 2000-2001
Discussant, CMES Graduate Student Forum, 2000, 2008, 2009
Internal Reviewer, NES Academic Program Review, 1999
Faculty Advisor, Turkish Students' Association, 1995-98
UDWPE Grader, 1991-98
Social and Behavioral Sciences Grade Challenge Committee, 1993-94
Committee on Graduate Studies, 1990-91
Honors Program Faculty-Student Dialogues, 1990-91
Profession:
President-elect, Turkish Studies Association, 2013-14
General Secretary, International Association for Ottoman Social and Economic History, 2013-present
Secretary to the Board, American Research Institute in Turkey, 2007-present
Board of Directors and Executive Committee, International Association for Ottoman Economic and
Social History, 2001-present
Editorial Board, Medieval Confluences: Studies in the Intellectual History and Comparative History of
Ideas of the Medieval World, Vasileios Syros, Editor, 2009-present
Editorial Board, Queenship and Power, Carole Lewis and Charles Beem, Editors, 2008-present
Prize Committee, Article Prize, Comité International d’Études Ottomanes et Pré-ottomanes, 2013-14
Board of Directors, American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT), 2002-2012
Board of Directors, Turkish Studies Association, 2007-10
Article reviewer, Turkish Historical Review, 2012
Article reviewer, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2009
Article reviewer, International Journal of Turkish Studies, 2009
Article reviewer, Mediterranean Historical Review, 2009
Article reviewer, collected volume edited by Albrecht Classen, 2009
Manuscript reviewer, University of California Press, 1995, 2000, 2008, 2011
Panel Chair, Middle East Studies Association, 1989-92, 1994, 1999, 2005, 2009
Article reviewer, Journal of World History, 2008
Article reviewer, IJMES, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006-7, 2008
External reviewer for tenure, 2001, 2004, Ben-Gurion University 2005, UC-Davis and Portland State
2008, UC-Riverside 2009, Oklahoma State 2010, Univ. of Texas at Dallas 2013
Graduate Student Paper Prize Committee Chair, Middle East Studies Association, 2007-8
Turkish Studies Assn. Ad Hoc Committee for Committee on Academic Freedom Chair, 2007
Manuscript reviewer, Stanford University Press, 2007
Article reviewer, International History Review, 2007
Article reviewer, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2007
Co-Convener, Great Lakes Workshop on Ottoman History, 2004
History Book Review Editor, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 1995-2004
Program Committee, American Historical Association Convention, 2004
Fellowship Application Reviewer, National Humanities Center, 2004
Nominating Committee, ARIT, 1998-2000, 2003
Fellowship Committee, ARIT, 1996-2001
Program Committee, Middle East Studies Association, 1993, 2001
Prize Committee, Turkish Studies Association, 2000-1
Prescreener, ACLS Fellowship Program, 1998-2000
Manuscript reviewer, SUNY Press, 1991, 2000
Manuscript reviewer, St. Martin's Press, 2000
Article reviewer, Journal of Early Modern History, 1998
Article reviewer, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1991, 1993
Prize Committee, Syrian Studies Association, 1993-97
Treasurer, Turkish Studies Association, 1991-94
Workshop Co-Coordinator, "Teaching Middle Eastern History," U. of Chicago, 1992
Workshop Organizer, Middle East Studies Association, 1993, 2000
Panel Chair and/or Discussant, Middle East Studies Association, 1989-92, 1994-95, 1999, 2009
Panel Chair and Organizer, American Historical Association, New York, 1987
Roundtable, Historiographies of the Ottoman Empire, University of Binghamton, 1994
Newsletter Editor, American Research Institute in Turkey, 1989-91
Consultant, world history textbook (Prentice-Hall), 1993-95
Manuscript reviewer, Houghton-Mifflin, 1994, 1996
Manuscript reviewer, Greenwood Press, 1993
Proposal reviewer, NEH, 1991, 1993
Community:
Answered queries from the public by phone and email.
“Under the Ottoman Umbrella: The Balkans, Anatolia, and the Arab Lands,” Raindrop Turkish House,
Austin, TX, May 10, 2012.
"Islamic Mysticism," St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Book Group, February 2010
"Tribalism in the Middle East," Congregation Or Chadash, Tucson, October 2009
"Ottoman History" and "Islam in the Ottoman Empire," Workshop on Comparative Cultural Diffusion
for K-12 Teachers in Southern Arizona, CMES, Tucson, March 2009
"Slavery in the Ottoman Empire," Workshop on Comparative Slavery for K-12 Teachers in Southern
Arizona, CMES, Tucson, March 2008
"Women in Islamic History," Montgomery Place Lectures, Chicago, July 2007
"The Ottoman Art of Living Together," Foundation for Interfaith Dialogue, Tucson, October 2006
"Ottoman History," Teach Turkey! Teachers’ Workshop, CMES, Tucson, April 2005
"Films on the Middle East," commentator for four films shown by Pima Peace and Justice at Grace St.
Paul's Episcopal Church, Tucson, June 2004
"History of Ottoman Cyprus," Teach Cyprus! Teachers' Workshop, CMES, Tucson, April 2004
Consultant for children's book on the Ottoman Empire by Janice Goimaracs, 2004
"Justice and Islam in the Middle East," Catholic Community Services, Tucson, December 2002
"Women in Islamic History," panel on teaching, Southwest Regional Conference on Middle East and
Islamic Studies, UA Center for Middle Eastern Studies, August 2002
"Women in Islam," St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Tucson, March 2002
"Anatolia's History through Its Art," Teach Turkey! Teachers' Workshop, CMES, Tucson, April 2001
"Albania in History," Balkan Peace Support Group, Unitarian Church, Tucson, Sept. 1999
Study Group on Kosovo, Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Tucson, June 1999.
Stop the War! Teach-In on Kosovo, Tucson Peace Action Coalition, Tucson Public Library, May
1999.
Colloquium on Eastern Christianity and Islam, Seminar on Church History, Grace St. Paul's Episcopal
Church, Tucson, October 1997
Coordinator for talk by Prof. Richard Chambers, University of Chicago, to department and community
audience, October 1997
"The Cultural and Ethnic Heritages of Contemporary Turkey," for "Turkey at the Crossroads: A
Workshop for Educators," Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 1996
Discussion on Bosnia, La Posada, Green Valley, October, 1995
Colloquium on Byzantine and Islamic Periods, Seminar on Church History, Grace-St. Paul's Episcopal
Church, Tucson, October 1994
Great Decisions Program, 1990-92
Colloquium on the Middle East presented to US Immigration and Naturalization Service by the Center
for Middle Eastern Studies, 1991