Former Fellows

Abdulhamit Kırmızı is a Professor in History at the Marmara University. Previously he was Visiting Professor for Cultural Studies of the Middle East at the Institut für Orientalistik, University of Bamberg, Germany (2020-21) and Professor of History at the Istanbul Şehir University (2010-20), teaching Historiography in Global Perspective, Auto/Biography, Late Ottoman History, Formations of Modern Turkey, Modern Turkish Bureaucracy, and Psychology, History & Memory. After visiting primary, middle and high schools in Marl, Germany, and Zonguldak, Turkey, he studied Public Administration at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University (1995), received his MA degree from the History Dept. of Hacettepe University (1998) and his PhD from the History program at Boğaziçi University (2005). He was Visiting Fellow at SOAS, University of London in 2009, as a postdoctoral fellow of the British Academy. His publications include four books and dozens of articles, mostly on late Ottoman history, it’s public and provincial administration, and prosopographical and biographical studies. He is a founding co-editor of TALİD (Türkiye Araştırmaları Literatür Dergisi/Turkish Studies Review).