平特五不中

Veysel 舰im艧ek

Veysel 舰im艧ek teaches modern Turkish and Ottoman Turkish at 平特五不中. Previously, he taught these languages in Turkey and Canada to various groups of students from Turkish and other backgrounds. He also has considerable experience with translating and publishing documents, manuscripts, and printed material in Ottoman Turkish. Prior to his current appointment at the Institute of Islamic Studies, he held a Chauncey Postdoctoral Fellowship with International Security Studies of Yale University (2016-18), and served as a postdoctoral research fellow and interim codirector of the Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC) of 平特五不中 (2015-16). His research interests include political, social, and intellectual history of the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic (c. 1750鈥1950), and he has taught various courses on Ottoman, Middle Eastern and World History at Yale, McMaster, and Bilkent.

2015 PhD, History, McMaster University, Canada

2005 MA, History, Bilkent University, Turkey

2002 BSc, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

Ongoing Digital Humanities Projects

Visualizing the pilgrimage routes and travel times in the Indian Ocean World, c. 1500鈥1900

Visualizing the road/messenger networks in the Balkans and the Middle East, c. 1830

Creating animated battlemaps featuring the Ottomans鈥 鈥淟ong Great War鈥 in the Balkans and the Middle East, 1912鈥1922

Refereed Publications

Books/Edited Volumes

(with Frank Castiglioni and Ethan Menchinger) eds., Ottoman War and Peace: Studies in Honor of Virginia H. Aksan. Leiden: Brill, 2019: xxvi+448

(with Virginia H. Aksan) eds., 鈥淟iving Empire: Ottoman Identities in Transition, 1700鈥1850.鈥 Special issue, The Journal of Ottoman Studies, no. 44 (2014): 9鈥501

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

鈥淯nder Fire and Lice: Experiences of an Ottoman Soldier in World War I and the Turkish War of Independence (1919鈥1922)鈥 in Ottoman War and Peace: Ottoman War and Peace: Studies in Honor of Virginia H. Aksan, eds. Frank Castiglioni, Ethan Menchinger and Veysel Simsek (Leiden: Brill, 2019): 143鈥156

鈥溾楤ackstabbing Arabs鈥 and 鈥楽hirking Kurds鈥: History, Nationalism, and Turkish Memory of World War I.鈥 In The Great War: From Memory to History, eds. Jonathan Vance et al. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015: 99鈥126

鈥淭he First 鈥楲ittle Mehmeds鈥: Conscripts for the Ottoman Army, 1826鈥53.鈥 The Journal of Ottoman Studies, no. 44 (2014): 265鈥311

Other Publications

鈥淥smanl谋 陌mparatorlu臒u鈥檔da D眉zenli Ordu i莽in Asker Toplanmas谋: 1826鈥1853鈥 [Recruitment for the Regular Army in the Ottoman Empire: 1826鈥1853]. Toplumsal Tarih [Social History, Istanbul], no. 198 (2010): 36鈥42

Transcription of selected early nineteenth鈥揷entury Ottoman constitutional texts. In 1815鈥1847, vol. 2 of Quellen zur Europ盲ischen Verfassungsgeschichte im 19. Jahrhundert [Handbook of European Constitutional History in the Nineteenth Century]. Bonn: J. H. W Dietz Nachfolger, 2010. CD鈥揜OM

Holbrook, Victoria, 鈥淗眉sn鈥撁 A艧k鈥檃 脰ns枚z.鈥 Trans. Veysel Simsek and Emrah Pelvano臒lu. Yasakmeyve, no. 12 (2005): 52鈥59

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