ASLI NİYAZİOĞLU Assistant Professor in History Koç University History Department Rumeli Feneri Yolu 34450 Sarıyer, Istanbul Turkey (90) 212-338-1869
[email protected] Education Harvard University Boğaziçi University
Ph.D., History and Middle Eastern Studies November 2003. Cambridge, MA B.A., History June 1996. Graduated in departmental first rank with high honours. Istanbul
Academic Positions Koç University, Istanbul, Assistant Professor, History Department, September 2006Harvard University, Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, July-September 2011, February-July 2010, June-August 2008.
University of Oxford, Departmental Lecturer in Ottoman History, Oriental Institute, January 2005-September 2006. Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, Fellow in the Program “Cultural Mobility in Near Eastern Literatures,” October 2003-January 2005. Harvard-Koç Ottoman Language Summer School, Ayvalık, Instructor of Academic Turkish, June-August 2000-2004.
Honors and Fellowships KOLT Teaching Innovation Grant, 2012. Koç-Harvard University Summer Research Grant, 2011 and 2008. Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Visiting Scholar, Spring 2010. British Institute at Ankara Research Grant, 2005. Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, Fellowship, 2003-2004 and awarded an extension for the Winter Semester 2004. Harvard Grant for Tuition 1996-2003 and Full Stipend 1996-1998. Harvard University CMES Research Travel Grant, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002. P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship, 1998-1999, 1999-2000. Harvard University Mellon Summer Language Study Grant, 1997. Boğaziçi University Alumni Association Award, 1992-1996; Awarded upon History Department entrance in the first rank.
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Publications Book Aşık Çelebi ve Şairler Tezkiresi Üzerine Yazılar, (Studies on Aşık Çelebi and his Biographical Dictionary of Poets) co-edited with Hatice Aynur, (İstanbul: Koç University Press, 2011). Articles “Babalar ve Oğullar: Evliya Çelebi Babasını Neden Sözlü Kaynak Olarak Kullandı?” Evliya Çelebi ve Sözlü Kaynakları, Ankara: UNESCO Türkiye Milli Komisyonu, 2012, s.107-114. “In the Dream Realm of a Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Biographer: Taşköprizade and the Sufi Sheikhs” in Sufism and Society: Arrangements of the Mystical in the Muslim World, 1200-1800 C.E., ed. John J. Curry and Erik S. Ohlander (London and New York: 2011), 243-58. “Aşık Çelebi’ye Rüyaların Söyledikleri” in Aşık Çelebi ve Şairler Tezkeresi Üzerine Yazılar, co-edited with Hatice Aynur, (İstanbul: Koç University Press, 2011):71-85. “Dreams, Ottoman Biography Writing, and the Halveti-Sünbüli Sheikhs of Sixteenth Century Istanbul” in Many Ways of Speaking About the Self, Middle Eastern Ego-Documents in Arabic, Persian and Turkish (14th-20th Century), Ralph Elger and Yavuz Erköse eds. (Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden: 2010): 171-185. Turkish Translation: “Halveti Sünbüli Şeyhlerinin Rüyaları ve Osmanlı Biyografi Yazıcılığı” Osmanlılar III Doğu Batı Düşünce Dergisi 53 (2010): 2139. “Dreams of the Very Special Dead: Nevizade Atai’s (d.1635) Reasons for Composing His Mesnevis” Archivum Ottomanicum 25 (2008): 221-33. “On Altıncı Yüzyıl Sonunda Osmanlı'da Kadılık Kabusu ve Nihânî’nin Rüyası” Journal of Turkish Studies/Türklük Bilgisi Araştırmaları 31/II (2007): 133-143. “The Sixteenth Century Ottoman Poet in Reclusion,” in. Poetry’s Voice, Society’s Norms: Forms of Interaction Between Middle Eastern Writers and Their Societies, Angelika Neuwirth, Barbara Winckler, Andreas Pflitsch eds. (Reichert, Berlin: 2006): 225-37. Turkish Translation: “Uzlet ve On Altıncı Yüzyıl Osmanlı Şairi” Kritik 1 (2008):102-115. “Lives of a Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Sufi: Sheikh Bali Efendi and his Biographers,” in Uygurlardan Osmanlıya Şinasi Tekin Armağanı, Fatma Büyükkarcı Yılmaz and Günay Kut eds. (Simurg, İstanbul: 2006): 607-20. Encyclopaedia Article
"The Ruling Institution in the Ottoman Empire." World History Encyclopedia, Era 6: The First Global Age, 1450–1770. Alexander Mikaberidze, Dane A. Morrison, Jeffrey M. Diamond, D. Harland Hagler. Santa Barbara, eds., (CA: 2
ABC-CLIO, 2011), p. 175-176; avaliable online ABC-CLIO eBook Collection, http://ebooks.abc-clio.com/reader.aspx?isbn=9781851099429&id=A1729C-1858.
Forthcoming
“How to Read an Ottoman Poet's Dream? Friends, Patrons and the Execution of Fiġānī (d.938/1532)” Middle Eastern Literatures.
“Ṭashkoprīzāda,” I.B. Taurus Biographical Dictionary of Islamic Civilization.
“Fighānī” Encylopedia of Islam, Third Edition.
Scholarly Presentations (invited) Harvard-Koç Ottoman Summer School, Cunda, “A World Turned Upside Down? A Study of Hüdai’s (d. 1628) Initiation ” 2012. İstanbul Şehir University Workshop “17. Yüzyılda Osmanlı İmparatorluğu: Kriz ve Dönüşüm” Istanbul, “On yedinci Yüzyıl Osmanlı Biyografilerinde Rüyaları Okumak” 2012. Sabancı University, Istanbul, “The Ottoman Dream Mirrors and the Seventeenth Century Ulema” 2012. CHEP, Istanbul, Conference“The Cultural History of Emotions in Pre-Modernity II,” “Fear and Pleasure at a Sixteenth Century Ottoman Garden,” 2011. Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Symposium “Les usage de l’écrit du for privé,” “What do Dreams Reveal about the Secrets of the Ottoman Lives?”2011. Gazi ve Bilkent Üniversiteleri, Ankara, Symposium “Evliya Çelebi’nin Sözlü Kaynakları,” Ankara: “Babalar ve Oğullar: Evliya Çelebi Babasını Neden Sözlü Kaynak Olarak Kullandı?” 2011. Harvard University, CMES, Cambridge MA: “How to Read Aşık Çelebi’s Biographies: Dream of the Executed Poet Figani (d.1537),” 2010. Harvard University, CMES, Cambridge MA: “What Haunted the Ottomans: Living and the Dead in a Seventeenth Century Biographical Work,” 2009. American Research Institute in Turkey, İstanbul: “Dreams, Biography Writing, and the Halveti-Sünbüli Sheikhs in Late Sixteenth Century İstanbul,” 2008. Ludwig-Maximilian University Symposium “Convention and Innovation in Ego Documents” Munich: “This-Worldly Engagements, Other-Worldly Concerns: Yusuf Sinan (d. 1579) and Writing the Lives of the Sufi Sheikhs,” 2007. Harvard University, Symposium “Sebeb-i Telif: A Symposium on Ottoman Primary Sources”: “Dreams of the Very Special Dead: Nevizade Atai’s (d.1635) Reasons for Composing His Mesnevis,” 2006. SOAS University of London: “And He Woke up in Terror: Nightmares of the Late Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Ulema,” 2005. University of Cambridge, TSG Symposium: “Imperial Visions: Mehmed II and his 3
Topkapı Palace,” 2005. Wissenschaftskolleg Summer Academy in Alexandria: “Literatures and BordersDelimitations, Transgressions” “Images of Youth in the Late Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Novel and Biography,” 2004. Freie Universitaet Berlin, “Ottoman Biographers, Life Stories They Remembered and Revised,” Paper presented for the Project “Ego Documents in Cross-Cultural Perspective,” 2004. Freie Universitaet Berlin, Conference “Poetry’s Voice, Society’s Norms: Forms of Interaction between Middle Eastern Writers and their Societies,” “Dreaming of the Dead, Partying with the Living,” 2003.
Conference Presentations and Participation Presenter, Leiden University Eurasian Empires Summer School, “Integration Processes and Identity formations in Eurasian Empires,” Amsterdam, “Empire-Building and Biography Writing” 2012. Chairperson, CHEP Istanbul, Conference “The Cultural History of Emotions in PreModernity II,” “Passions and Impressions,” 2011. Chairperson, Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Istanbul, Annual Symposium “Istanbul and Water,” “Ottoman Waterways and the City,” 2010. Commentator and Chairperson, Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Istanbul, Mini-Symposia “Towards an Understanding of Ottoman Early Modernity: Transformations in State, Society, Culture,” 2011. Presenter, World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, at the panel “Emotional Communities in the Middle East and North Africa: Historical and Anthropological Approaches”: “Fear and Pleasure at a Sixteenth Century Ottoman Party,” Barcelona, 2010” Presenter, Symposium “The Sixteenth Century Ottoman Biographer (Aşık Çelebi and His Work)”: “Aşık Çelebi’ye Rüyaların Söyledikleri,” (Aşık Çelebi and Dreams), Netherlands Institute, Istanbul, 2009. Presenter, Medieval & Renaissance Forum “Dreams, Imagination, Fantasy”: “Dreams and Sufi Lives in Late Sixteenth Century Istanbul,” Plymouth New Hampshire, 2009.
Conference and Workshop Organizations Co-organizer with Himmet Taşkömür, Harvard University, “Osmanlı Hayat Hikayesi Yazıcılığı Çalışma Grubu Semineri” Workshop at Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, İstanbul, 2011. Co-organizer with Richard Wittmann, Orient Institut, "Osmanlı'da Okurlar ve Okuma Biçimleri Üzerine Bazı Gözlemler" Seminar by Tülün Değirmenci at the Orient Institut, İstanbul 2012. 4
Co-organizer with Hatice Aynur from İstanbul Şehir University and Jan Schmidt from Leiden University, “The Sixteenth Century Ottoman Biographer (Aşık Çelebi and His Work)”: “Aşık Çelebi’ye Rüyaların Söyledikleri,” (Aşık Çelebi and Dreams), Symposium at the Netherlands Institute, Istanbul, 2009. Organizer and Chairperson, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin, Workshop “Narratives of Motion: Modernism, Technology, and Literature,” 2004. University Service Member of the Faculty Council, since 2012. Member of the University Archives Project, since 2012. Member of the Admissions Committee for the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations Fellowships, since 2009. Founder and organizer, History Book Club, since 2009. Founder and organizer, Ottoman Biography Studies Group, since 2009. College of Social Sciences and Humanities Dean’s Office Representative for the History Department, 2008-2012. Member of Strategic Planning Committee, 2011. Presentation of research project on Ottoman dreams to the Board of Trustees, 2010. Founder and organizer, History Workshop with RCAC Fellows, 2010. Member of the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities Executive Council, 2009. Coordinator, Comparative Studies in Society and History Master Program, 2009. Coordinator, Social Sciences Seminar, 2009-2008. Community Service Interviews with Turkish media: TRT television program Hayat+ and newspapers Akşam and HaberTürk. Interview for Ottoman History podcast “Dreams in Ottoman Culture, Society and Cosmos” with Nir Shafir and Chris Graiten. Interviews for “KUtalks,” four short youtube videos about my research projects to introduce the research at Koc University for the incoming undergraduate students.
Graduate Thesis Supervised Deniz Zorlu, “Remembering the Social Movements of the 1968 Era in Turkey,” M.A. Thesis, September 2011. Ayşe Nur Sülüş, “Administration of Ottoman Public Dept, Providing a Sense of Security and Fighting Against Tax Evasion?” M.A. Thesis, January 2010.
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Courses Taught Koç University: Electives and Required Area Ottoman Imagination: A Cultural History Travels in Ottoman History with Evliya Çelebi History of the Ottoman State, 1300-1566 Core Society and Culture in the Early Modern Europe Society and Culture in the Ottoman Empire History of the Turkish Revolution Graduate Advanced Topics in the History of Culture and Society University of Oxford History of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1700 Ottoman Historical Texts (both graduate and undergraduate levels) Freie Universitaet Berlin The Ghazal in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Literature (Guest Lecturer in a course organized by Prof. Angelika Neuwirth) Harvard-Koç Ottoman Language Summer School Academic Turkish (graduate) Languages Turkish (native), English (fluent), Ottoman Turkish and Paleography (advanced reading knowledge), Classical Arabic (intermediate reading knowledge), French (intermediate reading knowledge), Spanish (intermediate), German (elementary), Persian (elementary).
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