Eldem Edhem

 

 

 

Education:

PhD: 1984-1989 – Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille I, Institut de Linguistique Générale et d’Études Orientales et Slaves. Thesis supervisor: Robert Mantran, Professor Emeritus at the Université de Provence. Thesis: Le commerce français d’Istanbul au XVIIIe siècle (French Trade in Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century).

D.E.A. (Diplôme d’Études Approfondies) : 1983-1984 – Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille I, Institut de Linguistique Générale et d’Études Orientales et Slaves.

Professional and academic experience:

 

1980-1982: Conference interpreter at the Ekonomik ve Sosyal Etüdler Konferans Heyeti.

1982-1983: Research Assistant at the Department of History of the School of Arts and Sciences, Boğaziçi University.

October 1986 -: Researcher at the Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes d’Istanbul.

March 1989 – September 1989: Lecturer, Department of History of the School of Arts and Sciences, Boğaziçi University.

October 1989 – October 1991: Assistant Professor, Department of History of the School of Arts and Sciences, Boğaziçi University.

October 1991 – December 1998: Tenured Associate Professor, Department of History of the School of Arts and Sciences, Boğaziçi University.

December 1998 -: Full Professor, Department of History of the School of Arts and Sciences, Boğaziçi University.

Affiliations and memberships:

Founding member of the Foundation for the Social and Economic History of Turkey 1991-

Member of the Editorial Board of the monthly Toplumsal Tarih (Social History). 1994-2019

Member of the Turkish Studies Association. 1996-

Member of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. 1999-

Member of the Association des Études Turques. 2001-

Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 2009-

Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Middle East Studies. 2009-

Member of the Advisory Council of the European Association for Banking History. 2009-2012

Member of the Advisory Board of the Hrant Dink Foundation. 2010-2019

Member of the Advisory Board of the New Europe College, Bucharest. 2012-2021

Member of the Editorial Board of Studia Islamica. 2013-

Member of the Editorial Board of Turcica. 2015-

Member of the Executive Board of Capitalism. 2019-

Member of the Scientific Board of Revue des sciences humaines et sociales. 2021-

Honorary member of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Rethymno. 2021-

Member of the Council of Strategic Orientation of the Network of French Schools Abroad. 2022

Awards:

Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) award of encouragement in the social sciences (1998)

Boğaziçi University Foundation (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Vakfı) award for outstanding research (1999)

Sedat Simavi Award in the Social Sciences (2000)

Boğaziçi University Foundation (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Vakfı) award for outstanding research (2015)

Member of the Science Academy (Bilim Akademisi) (2018)

Member of the Aga Khan Architectural Award Master Jury (2019)

Honorary member of the Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Rethymnon (2021)

Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur (2022)

Areas of specialization:

Foreign trade in the Levant in the eighteenth century

Credit and finance in the post-classical period of the Ottoman Empire

Capital formation and investment in eighteenth-century Ottoman society

Late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Ottoman society in the light of the Ottoman Bank archives

Nineteenth-century Ottoman élite structures and “Westernizing” elites

Late-Ottoman biographies and autobiographies

Osman Hamdi Bey as an artist and museologist

Social and economic topography of Istanbul in the late Ottoman period

Tombstones and cemeteries as an indicator of Ottoman society and mentalities

Popular Orientalism in the West and in the Ottoman Empire

History of archaeology and collections

Photography in the Ottoman Empire

Perceptions of the Alhambra by non-European and Muslim visitors

 

Publications:

 

Recent Books:

  1. (As editor, with Zainab Bahrani and Zeynep Çelik) Scramble for the Past. A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914 (Istanbul: SALT, 2011), 519 pp.
  2. (As editor, with Zainab Bahrani and Zeynep Çelik) Geçmişe Hücum. Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda Arkeolojinin Öyküsü, 1753-1914 (Istanbul: SALT, 2011), 519 pp.
  3. (with Osman Salahaddin Osmanoğlu and Jamil Adra) Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family (Istanbul: Isis, 2011), 82 pp.
  4. Nazlı’nın Defteri. Osman Hamdi Bey’in Çevresi. Nazlı’s Guestbook, Osman Hamdi Bey’s Circle (Istanbul: Homer, 2014).
  5. Mendel-Sebah: Müze-i Hümayun’u Belgelemek – Mendel-Sebah: Documenting the Imperial Museum (Istanbul: İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri, 2014).
  6. (As editor, with Zeynep Çelik), Camera Ottomana. Photography and Modernity in the Ottoman Empire, 1870-1914 (Istanbul: Koç University Press, 2015).
  7. (As editor, with Zeynep Çelik) Camera Ottomana. Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda Fotoğraf ve Modernite, 1840-1914 (Istanbul: Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2015).
  8. Osman Hamdi Bey: İzlenimler, 1869-1885 (Istanbul: Doğan Kitap, 2016).
  9. (As editor, with Houssine Alloul and Henk de Smaele), To Kill a Sultan. A Transnational History of the Attempt on Abdülhamid II (1905) (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
  10. L’Empire ottoman et la Turquie face à l’Occident (Paris: Fayard, 2018).
  11. (As editor, with Sophia Laiou), Istanbul and the Black Sea Coast. Shipping and Trade (Istanbul: ISIS, 2018).
  12. L’Alhambra. À la croisée des histoires (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2021).
  13. L’Empire ottoman (Paris: Que sais-je? / Humensis, 2022).
  14. The Alhambra at the Crossroads of History (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming in 2023)