LINDA T. DARLING
Curriculum Vitae
Department of History
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
(520) 621-9754/1586 ldarling@u.arizona.edu
(520) 621-2422 (fax) February 2007
INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION AND STATUS:
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Arizona
EMPLOYMENT:
1996-present 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:
Revenue-Raising and Legitimacy: Tax Collection and Finance Administration in the Ottoman Empire, 1560-1660 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996).
PUBLICATIONS, ARTICLES:
"Public Finances: The Role of the Ottoman Centre," in The Cambridge History of Turkey, Vol. 3: The Later Ottoman Empire, 1603-1838, ed. Suraiya N. Faroqhi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 118-31.
"The Renaissance and the Middle East," in A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance, ed. Guido Ruggiero (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), 55-69; reissued in paperback, 2006.
"Mediterranean Borderlands: Early English Merchants in the Levant," in The Ottoman Empire: Myths, Realities and 'Black Holes', ed. Eugenia Kermeli and Oktay Özel (Istanbul: Isis Press, 2006), 173-88.
"Medieval Egyptian Society and the Concept of the Circle of Justice," Mamluk Studies Review 10 (2006): 1-17.
"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, Suha Ünsal, and Kudret Emirolu (Istanbul: letiim Yaynlar, 2006), 47-61.
"Prens, Adil Sultan ve Akdeniz'de Modern Çan Balangc," in Akdeniz Dünyas: Düünce, Tarih, Görünüm, ed. Eyüp Özveren, et al. (Istanbul: letiim Yaynlar, 2006), 45-57.
"Revisiting the Ottoman Gaza," in IXth International Congress of Economic and Social History of Turkey (Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu, 2006), 15-24.
"Persianate Sources on Anatolia and the Early History of the Ottomans," Studies on Persianate Societies 2 (2004, pub. 2005): 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.
"Another Look at Periodization in the Ottoman Empire," Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 26 (2002, pub. 2003): 19-28.
"`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, pub. 2003): 3-19.
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.
"The Ottomans and the Renaissance," The Turks (Ankara: Yeni Türkiye, 2002), 3:939-46.
"Osmanllar ve Rönesans," Türkler (Ankara: Yeni Türkiye, 2002), 11: 840-47.
"The Renaissance and the Middle East," in A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance, ed. Guido Ruggiero (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), 55-69.
"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 Osmanl Tarihi: Yeni Binyl Için Baz Hedefler," in Osmanl (Istanbul: Yeni Türkiye Yaynlar, 2000).
"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, pub. 2000): 347-55.
"Rethinking Europe and the Islamic World in the Age of Exploration," The Journal of Early Modern History 2 (1998): 221-246.
"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 Provincial Treasuries in Syria," Arab Historical Review for Ottoman Studies 17-18 (1998): 35-37.
"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.
"Avariz Tahriri: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Ottoman Survey Registers," Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 10 (1986): 23-26.
BOOK REVIEWS:
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, pub. 2007): 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, pub. 2002): 274-75.
Suraiya Faroqhi, Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire, in History: Reviews of New Books 30 (2001, pub. 2002): 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:
"Social Cohesion (Asabiyya) and Justice in the Late Medieval Middle East," Comparative Studies on Society and History, forthcoming.
"Revenue-Raising and Legitimacy in Ottoman Fiscal History," in Osmanl Bütçeleri, 3 vols., forthcoming in Turkey.
"Islamic Empires, the Ottoman Empire, and the Circle of Justice," in a volume on constitutional reconstruction in the Middle East, ed. Said Amir Arjomand, forthcoming.
"Avarz in 1501," in a festschrift for Halil Inalcik (Istanbul: Eren Yaynclk), forthcoming.
"Prolegomena for a Study of Ottoman Administrative Documents and Ilkhanid Precedents," article revised for a feschrift for Mikhail Gubolu, ed. Anca Popescu et al.
"The Rhetoric of Justice and the Practice of Power in the Mamluk Sultanate," revised for ARCE/IFAO project, The Exercise of Power in the Age of the Sultanates, ed. Jere Bacharach.
Review of Fariba Zarinebaf, John Bennet, and Jack L. Davis, A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the 18th Century, submitted to MIT-EJMES.
Review of Proceedings, International Congress on Learning and Education in the Ottoman World, in Journal of Early Modern History (forthcoming).
Review of Antony Black, The History of Islamic Political Thought: From the Prophet to the Present, in Journal of Early Modern History (forthcoming).
WORK IN PROGRESS:
"Political Change across the Mediterranean: The Evidence of Machiavelli and His Middle Eastern Contemporaries," article in revision for Journal of Interdisciplinary History.
"Murder and Mayhem in Ottoman Rumeli: Local Political Relations in Eighteenth-Century Macedonia," article submitted to a festschrift for Suraiya Faroqhi, ed. Eleni Gara, et al.
"The Development of Ottoman Governmental Institutions in the Fourteenth Century: A Reconstruction," article submitted to festschrift for Suraiya Faroqhi, ed. Vera Costantini
"Islam," entry submitted to Encyclopedia of Women's History, ed.
"Budget," entry submitted to Dictionnaire de l'Empire ottoman, ed. Gilles Veinstein et al.
"Justice and Power in the Middle East," a book-length manuscript under contract to University of Texas Press.
"Conquest and Assimilation in Middle Eastern History," another book project.
Article on growth of administrative and political literature in Ottoman fifteenth century, for TSA Journal.
Article for a seminar on Persian diplomatics at the University of Pennsylvania; proposal submitted.
Paper on Muslim-Christian relations on Ottoman borderlands for conference on Ottoman diversity at University of Texas.
Article on Ottoman finance manuals.
Article for a festschrift for R. Stephen Humphreys.
Article on late seventeenth century avarz registers and population decline.
Studies on Ottoman political thought.
Review of Crone.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS:
"Mongol to Ottoman: The Transfer of Finance Administration between Empires," UAMARRC Work-in-Progress Symposium, Tucson, September 2006
"Mutually Constituted: Ottoman Empire and Europe," for Turkish Society, Tucson, Sept. 2006
"Rhetorics of Justice and Practices of Power in Mamluk Egypt," ARCE-IFAO Conference, Exercising Power in the Age of the Sultanates, Cairo, March 2006
"Political Literature and the Development of 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 Ottoman Empire," IISL Conference, Constitutional Reconstruction in the Middle East, Oñati, Spain, April 2005
"Asabiyya and Justice during the Mamluk Period," ARCE/IFAO Project, "The Exercise of Power in the Age of the Sultanates," Cairo, March 2005
"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
"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 Convention, 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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Money and Power in the Ottoman State," Columbia University, April
"Peasants, Kings, and Taxes in Middle Eastern Agrarian Empires," University of Wisconsin, March 1993
"Ottoman and Turkish: Court and Country," U of A Center for Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series, Middle Eastern Languages: Cultures and Dialects, April 1992
"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
"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
"Taxation and Political Relations: The Ottoman Empire in the Seventeenth Century," University of Arizona, April 1989
"Squaring the Circle: Thoughts on the Interpretation of Middle Eastern Political Philosophy," Near East Symposium, University of Michigan, February 1989
"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:
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
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: European History Graduate Colloquium: The Mediterranean, 1300-1800
History 695I: World History Graduate Colloquium
History 695K: Historiography
History 695M: Sources for Middle East History
History 696O: 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
History 599: Readings on Ottoman Romania
History 599: Readings in Ottoman Historical Texts
History 599: Readings on the Bosnian Problem
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 Trade Routes and Transportation in the Muslim World
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Middle East Studies Association
Turkish Studies Association
American Research Institute in Turkey
American Historical Association
World History Association
Social Science History Association
Syrian Studies Association
LANGUAGES:
French, modern Turkish: reading and speaking
Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, German: reading
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Department:
Director of Graduate Studies, 2005-8
Convener, Middle East Caucus, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005-6
Convener, World/Comparative History Caucus, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2005-6
Graduate Committee, 2001-4
Honors Advisor, 2002-4
Undergraduate Advisor, 1995-2000
Post-Tenure Review Criteria, 1998, 1999, 2003-4
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, 1998
Second Year Review Committee, Promotion and Tenure, 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:
Delegate of University of Arizona to ARIT, 1989-present
Executive Board, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 1991-93, 1999-2001, 2004-6
Promotion and Tenure Committee, Near Eastern Studies, 1996-97, 2006
Internal Reviewer, NES Academic Program Review, 1999, 2007
SBS Dean's Audit Committee for Post-Tenure Review Procedures, 2003-4
Search Committee, Modern Turkish Studies (NES), 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, March 2000
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:
Secretary, American Research Institute in Turkey, 2007-present
Board of Directors, American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT), 2002-present
Board of Directors and Executive Committee, International Association for Ottoman Economic and Social History, 2001-present
Manuscript reviewer, Stanford UP, 2007
Article reviewer, IJMES, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006
Co-Convener, Great Lakes Workshop on Ottoman History, 2004
External reviewer for tenure, 2001, 2004, 2005
Fellowship Application Reviewer, National Humanities Center, 2004
History Book Editor, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 1995-2004
Program Committee, 2004 American Historical Association Convention
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, University of California Press, 1995, 2000
Manuscript reviewer, SUNY Press, 1991, 2000
Manuscript reviewer, St. Martin's Press, 2000
Article reviewer, Journal of Early Modern History, 1998
Article reviewer, CSSH, 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, Middle East Studies Association, 1989-92, 1994, 1999
Panel Chair and Organizer, American Historical Association, New York, 1997
Discussant, Middle East Studies Association, Washington, DC, 1995
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:
"The Ottoman Art of Living Together," Foundation for Intercultural Dialogue, Tucson, Sept. 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 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
Coordinated 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
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