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Department of History 3121 N. Gill Avenue

The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85719

Tucson, AZ 85721 (520) 326-0582

(520) 621-9754/1586 ldarling@email.arizona.edu

(520) 621-2422 (fax) August 2016

INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION AND STATUS:
Professor, Department of History, University of Arizona

Professor, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies (courtesy)

Professor, Department of Religious Studies (courtesy)

Center for Middle East Studies, faculty affiliate

Arizona Center for Turkish Studies, faculty affiliate
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 Avarz 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

“Justice and Power in the Ottoman Empire: Translations of Two Imperial Adaletnameler (Justice Decrees),” in Turkish Language, Literature, and History: Travellers’ Tales, Sultans, and Scholars since the Eighth Century, ed. William Hickman and Gary Leiser (London: Routledge, 2015), 79-98.

“Ottoman Customs Registers (Gümrük Defterleri) as Sources for Global Exchange and Interaction,” Review of Middle East Studies 49.1 (2015): 1-22. doi: 10.1017/rms.2015.63.

“Nasîhatnâmeler, İcmal Defterleri, and the Timar-Holding Ottoman Elite in the Late Sixteenth Century – Part II, Including the Seventeenth Century,” Osmanlı Araştırmaları 45 (2015): 13-35.

“Istanbul and the Late Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Elite: The Significance of Place,” Osmanlı İstanbulu, vol. 2 (Istanbul: 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi and İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi, 2014), 89-97.

“‘The Vicegerent of God, from Him We Expect Rain’: The Pre-Islamic State in Early Islamic Political Culture,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 134.3 (2014): 407-29.

“Political Literature and the Development of an Ottoman Imperial Identity,” and Guest Editor for papers on Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Identities, Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 1.1-2 (2014): 53-69.

“Nasîhatnâmeler, İcmal Defterleri, and the Timar-Holding Ottoman Elite in the Late Sixteenth Century,” Osmanlı Araştırmaları 43 (2014): 193-226.

1“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.

"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..

"Christian-Muslim Interaction on the Ottoman Frontier: Gaza and Accommodation in Early Ottoman History," in The Ottoman Mosaic: Exploring Models for Peace by Re-Exploring the Past, ed. Kemal Karpat and Yetkin Yldrm (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 12^th World Congress of Accounting Historians, ed. Oktay Güvenli, 3 vols. (Istanbul: 2008), 3: 2421-33.

"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 Emirolu (Istanbul: letiim, 2006), 47-61.

"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.

"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.

"'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.

"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.

"Rethinking Europe and the Islamic World in the Age of Exploration," The Journal of Early Modern History 2 (1998): 221-246.

"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 Sahilliolu, 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.

"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.

Revised entries, Kemal, Namek; Tanzimat; in Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, ed. Richard Martin (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004, 2^nd ed., Jan. 2016).

“Budget,” “Rise of the Ottomans,” and “Fiscality” in Dictionnaire de l'Empire ottoman, ed. François Georgeon, Nicolas Vatin, and Gilles Veinstein (Paris: Collège de France, Nov. 2015).

“Customs Dues,” in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three (Leiden: Brill, 2015), 72-73.

"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.

“Bj” and “Circle of Justice,” in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three (Leiden: Brill, 2011 and 2012), 83-84, 104-9.

"Islam," in The Oxford 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=t248.e520.

"Prens, Adil Sultan ve Akdeniz'de Modern Çan Başlangıcı," in Akdeniz Dünyası: Düşünce, Tarih, Görünüm, ed. Eyüp Özveren, Oktay Özel, Süha Ünsal, and Kudret Emiroğlu (Istanbul: İletişim, 2006), 45-57.

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.

"Revisiting the Ottoman Gaza," in IXth International Congress of Economic and Social History of Turkey (Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu, 2006), 15-24.

"Osmanlılar ve Rönesans," Türkler (Ankara: Yeni Türkiye, 2002), 11: 840-47.

"Malî Belgeler ve Osmanlı Tarihi: Yeni Binyıl İçin Bazı Hedefler," in Osmanlı (Istanbul: Yeni Türkiye Yayınları, 2000).

"Ottoman Provincial Treasuries in Syria," Arab Historical Review for Ottoman Studies 17-18 (1998): 35-37.

"Capitulations," in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 257-60.

"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:
Emine Fetvacı, Picturing History at the Ottoman Court, in International Journal of Middle East Studies 46 (2014):424-26.

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.

“Transformations in Ottoman Political Culture: Historicizing the Timar System,” submitted May 2015 to Turkish Historical Review, papers from CIEPO.

“Ottoman Political Thought: Toward a Revised History,” keynote paper for Ottoman Political Thought and Practice, Halcyon Days in Crete (Rethymnon: Crete University Press, forthcoming), submitted December 2015, revised August 2016.

“Crime among the Janissaries in the Ottoman Golden Age,” for A Historian of Ottoman War, Peace, and Empire: A Festschrift in Honor of Virginia Aksan, ed. Frank Castiglione and Veysel Şimşek (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming in 2016), submitted March 2016.

“Justice and Social Justice in Twentieth-Century Egypt,” for a Carl Smith festschrift, submitted twice.

“Resource Extraction in a Conquered Province: The Changing Role of Ottoman Syria in the Mid-16th Century,” paper for MESA, November 2016.

“Ottoman Political and Administrative Thought in the Late Seventeenth Century,” for Switzerland conference in Spring 2017.

“Notes on Ottoman Avariz Taxation from the Ahkam Registers of 1501 and 1698,” article for Inalcik memorial volume, first draft July 2016.

“The Janissaries of Damascus, or, How Conquering a Province Changed the Ottoman Empire (c.1550-1575),” journal article.

“Syria’s Fiscal Relationship with Istanbul,” paper for Antakya conference, April 2017?

“Empire and Elites in the Ottoman Seventeenth Century,” a book-length study on Ottoman political elites.

Study on Ilkhanid finance manuals and Ottoman documents.

Study on 16^th-17^th-century Syrian budgets.

Translation of the Siege of Kanije in Naima.

“Investigating Official Corruption in Ottoman Egypt,” TOBB University, Ankara, Turkey, June 2, 2016 (invited).

“Istanbul and Damascus: Officials and Soldiers in the Exercise of Imperial Power (c.1550-1575),” Fourth Conference on “Osmanlı İstanbulu,” Istanbul, Turkey, May 20-22, 2016.

“Financial Crimes in Early Ottoman Egypt,” American Research Institute in Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey, June 15, 2015 (invited).

“The Fiscal Administration of the Arab Provinces after the Ottoman Conquest of 1516,” for conference, “The Mamluk-Ottoman Transition: Continuity and Change in Egypt and Bilad al-Sham in the Sixteenth Century,” Bonn, Germany, March 5-7, 2015 (invited).

“Ottoman Political Thought and the Critique of the Janissaries: Perceptions and Evidence,” keynote speech for Halcyon Days in Crete, “Ottoman Political Thought and Practice,” Rethymnon, Greece, January 9-11, 2015 (invited).

“Beneficiaries of Patronage? Retinues and Followers in the Ottoman Army,” Middle East Studies Association, Washington, DC, November 21-25, 2014.

“Early Seventeenth-Century Timar Holders and the ‘Decline’ and ‘Reform’ of the Timar System,” Comité International des Études Pre-ottomanes et Ottomanes, Budapest, Hungary, October 7-11, 2014.

“Istanbul and the Late Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Elite: The Significance of Place,” Second Conference on “Osmanlı İstanbulu,” Istanbul, May 25-26, 2014.

“Taxation, Elites, and Rulers in the Ottoman Empire,” NYU conference, Taxation and Sovereignty, Florence, Italy, May 14-16, 2014 (invited).

“The Process of Elite Replacement in an Early Modern Bureaucratic Empire: Ottoman Military/ Administrative Elites in an Era of Consolidation,” European History and Social Science Conference, for panel, Elites in Bureaucratic Empires, Vienna, April 24-26, 2014 (invited).

“Ottoman Military Elites in the Era of ‘Decline’,” MENAS Colloquium, U of A, February 2014.

“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, UCLA, 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 Avarz 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 (invited).

"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:
2014-15 Graduate College Graduate and Professional Education Teaching and Mentoring Award nomination

2014 Provost’s Author Support Fund

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

Dissertation committee member: Currently Lucia Carminati, Jibreel Delgado (MENAS), Gülsüm Gurbuz (MENAS), Feras Klenk (MENAS), Tatiana Rabinovich (MENAS), Mark Voss (MENAS), Lee Beaudoen (UCLA). Formerly Lisa Adeli (1989), Michael Berdine (2001), Sean Clark (2013), Tom DeMayo (2006), Ziad Fahmy (2006), Deborah Kaye (2004), Susan Maneck (1993), Mary Pierce (2015), Vikas Rathee (2015), Andrea Giacomuzzi (CCLS, 2005), Nayel Badareen (MENAS, 2014), Courtney Dorroll (MENAS, 2015), Yasmin Hilloowalla (NES, 1997), Agnes Kefeli (ASU, 2001), [No degree: Caroline Audet, Abraham Gutmann, Catherine Hinrichs, Gijs Kruijtzer, Al McCarn, Jane Arons (NES)]

Doctoral exam committee member: Dissertation Committees plus Peter Alter, Adam Donaldson, Lizzie Ellis-Marino, Alex Hidalgo, Samantha Kuhn, James Lockhart, Ignacio Martinez, Steve Neufeld, Amy Newhouse, Jerry Pierce, Pamela Stewart, Jamie Stoops, James Wadsworth, Sofia Zepeda.

MA Thesis co-chair: Gülsüm Gurbuz (NES) Rhett Rhees (NES), Timothy Rowe (NES), Alex Schweig (NES), Robert Wessel (NES), 1Nelle Cook (MENAS).

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 (MENAS), 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

History 699: Readings on Oceanic History

History 699: Readings on Historiography

History 699: Writing a Publishable Article

Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, German: reading

Latin, Greek, Russian: studied; Persian: self-taught; Bulgarian: basic speaking

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Middle East Studies Association

Turkish Studies Association

American Research Institute in Turkey

American Historical Association

International Association for Ottoman Social and Ecoomic History
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Department:

Graduate Committee, 2001-4, 2015-2018

Convener, Middle East Caucus, 2000, 2002-3, 2005-7, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016

History-NES Dual Degrees/Certificate/Joint Degree Committee, 2010-present

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

Honors Advisor, 2002-4

Undergraduate Advisor, 1995-2000

Convener, World/Comparative History Caucus, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2005

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

Delegate of University of Arizona to ARIT, 1989-present

1Organizing Committee, Arizona Center for Turkish Studies (ACTS), 2013-present

Interim Executive Committee, Roshan GDP in Persian and Iranian Studies, 2016-2017

Planning Committee, ACTS “Turkey in Theory” workshop, 2014-15

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, 2014

1Discussant, 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:

1 President, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 2014-2017

General Secretary, International Association for Ottoman Social and Economic History, 2013-present

Board of Directors and Executive Committee, International Association for Ottoman Economic and Social History, 2001-present

Secretary to the Board, American Research Institute in Turkey, 2007-14

Board of Directors, American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT), 2002-2014

President-elect, Turkish Studies Association, 2013-14

Board of Directors, Turkish Studies Association, 2010-2011

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

Editorial Board, Journal of Islamic Perspectives and Culture, MacroWorld Publishing, 2014-present

Cooperation Partner, “Order and Transgression: Divergent Representation in Ottoman Texts, 1687-1730,” Felix Konrad, Principal Investigator, Historisches Seminar, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat, Kiel, Switzerland, 2015-2018 (funded)

1Prize Committee, Article Prize, Comité International d’Études Ottomanes et Pré-ottomanes, 2013-16

International Organizing Committee, “Sokolovic Family and Its Place in History,” conference at the Oriental Institute, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia, 14-16 October, 2016.

Cooperation Partner, proposal by Nedim Zahirovic, Centre for Mediterranean Studies, University of Bochum, Germany, 2015 (not funded)

Article reviewer, 1International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006-7, 2008, 2014, 2016

Article reviewer, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1991, 1993, 2012, 2014, 2016

Article reviewer, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 2015, 2016

Book proposal evaluator, University of California Press, 2016

Proposal reviewer, National Humanities Center, 2015, 2016

External reviewer for tenure, 2001, 2004, 1 Ben-Gurion University 2005, UC-Davis and Portland State 2008, UC-Riverside 2009, Oklahoma State 2010, Univ. of Texas at Dallas 2013, U of Mississippi 2014, Rutgers and Seton Hall University 2015, Michigan 2016, George Mason University 2016

External reviewer for promotion, Portland State, 2014, Michigan 2015, University of Vermont 2016

Article reviewer, American Historical Review, 2015

1Article reviewer, Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 2014

Article reviewer, Islamic Law and Society, 2014

Article reviewer, collected volume edited by Christine Isom-Verhaaren and Kent Schull, 2014

Prize Committee, MESA Malcolm Kerr Dissertation Award, 2013, 2014 (chair)

Manuscript reviewer, Brill, 2014

Manuscript reviewer, University of California Press, 1995, 2000, 2008, 2011

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

Board of Directors, Turkish Studies Association, 2007-10

Panel Chair, Middle East Studies Association, 1989-92, 1994, 1999, 2005, 2009

Article reviewer, Journal of World History, 2008

Graduate Student Paper Prize Committee Chair, Middle East Studies Association, 2007-8

Chair, Turkish Studies Assn. Ad Hoc Committee for Committee on Academic Freedom, 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

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 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.

“Murder and Mayhem in Ottoman Macedonia,” Balkan Peace Group, Tucson, November 10, 2015.

Tucson Festival of Books, presence at CMES table, March 2015.

Tucson Festival of Books, signing, March 16, 2014.

“Last Lunch,” Campus Christian Church, UA, March 28, 2014.

“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