Gürer Karagedikli is an Associate Professor of History in the Department of History at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, where he received his PhD in 2017. He subsequently held a Lady Davis Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem during the 2018–2019 academic year. His research is situated at the intersection of early modern and modern Mediterranean socioeconomic history with particular attention to Ottoman lands. It focuses on themes such as rural and urban property, urban identities, religious endowments, Jewish communities, intercommunal relations, capital accumulation, practices of giving, elite formation, land use, peasant indebtedness, and legal cultures. He served as the coordinator of the TÜBİTAK-funded research project titled “House Prices and Urban Wealth Inequality in the Ottoman Empire, 1600–1913,” which he completed in 2024. His current research projects include Jewish Families in the Ottoman Middle East, Elite Formation in the Ottoman Empire, and The Urban Environment of Ottoman Port Cities. In addition to his research, he teaches courses on Ottoman urban history and Ottoman non-Muslim communities; he supervises postgraduate and doctoral students at METU and co-supervises a doctoral student at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Selected Publications:
- Gürer Karagedikli, “Remarks on the children of Jewish converts to Islam in the Ottoman Empire: Reflections from eighteenth-century Edirne”, Harvard University Journal of Turkish Studies, 64 (2025), 207-219.
- Gürer Karagedikli and Yaron Ben-Naeh (2024), “The Communal Authority in the Edirne Jewish Community (c. 1720-1820): New Sources and Reflections” in Doğa Filiz Subaşı & Rıfat N. Bali (eds.), Jewish Edirne: History, Culture, Music (İstanbul: Libra, 2024), pp.65-91.
- Gürer Karagedikli (2022), “An Ottoman Imperial City in Transition: Transformation of Urban Governance in Edirne (18th -19th Centuries)”, Kadim, 4, 2 (2022), pp.27-38.
- Gürer Karagedikli and Ali Coşkun Tunçer (2021), “House prices in the Ottoman Empire: evidence from eighteenth-century Edirne”, Economic History Review, 74, 1 (2021), pp.6-33.
- Gürer Karagedikli and Yaron Ben-Naeh (2020), “Captives or crooks? Pirates, impostors, and Jewish communities in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire”, Mediterranean Historical Review, 35, 2 (2020), pp.189-209.
- Gürer Karagedikli (2018), “Overlapping boundaries in the city: mahalle and kahal in the early modern Ottoman urban context”, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 61, 4 (2018), pp. 650-692.
- Gürer Karagedikli and Ali Coşkun Tunçer (2018), “Micro-credit in the Ottoman Empire: a review of cash waqfs in transition to modern banking” in D’Maris Coffman, Cinzia Lorandini, Marcella Lorenzini (eds.), Financing in Europe: Evolution, Coexistence and Complementarity of Lending Practices from the Middle Ages to Modern Times (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp.237-266. Doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-58493-5_10
- Gürer Karagedikli, “Jewish Community Leaders’ Petition of Complaint, 1786: Jewish Musicians in Istanbul” in Linda Darling (ed.), Ottoman History Reader (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026) (forthcoming)
- Gürer Karagedikli and Ali Coşkun Tunçer, “Religion, Gender, and Inequality in Ottoman Urban Housing Markets, 1620–1880” The Economic History Review (under review)