Kaya Sahin
- Assistant Professor, Department of History
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Central and Eurasian Studies
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Education
- PhD, University of Chicago, 2007 (History)
Research Interests
- The institutional and ideological foundations of the Ottoman imperial praxis
- Comparative studies of early modern Eurasian empires
- Ottoman and modern Turkish historiography
- The Ottoman-Safavid rivalry
- Inter-cultural and inter-religious exchanges in early modern Eurasia
Contact Information
Email: iksahin@indiana.edu
Office: Ballantine Hall 814
Phone: (812) 856-0309
Publication Highlights
- Empire and Power in the Reign of Süleyman: Narrating the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- "Imperialism, Bureaucratic Consciousness and the Historian’s Craft: A Reading of Celalzade Mustafa's Tabakatu'l-memalik." In Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future: Historiography of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Erdem Çıpa and Emine Fetvacı. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.
- "Constantinople and the End Time: The Ottoman Conquest as a Portent of the Last Hour." Journal of Early Modern History 14 (2010): 317–54.
Honors and Awards
- SSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship for Transregional Research: Inter-Asian Contexts and Connections, 2012–2013.
- Sherman Emerging Scholar, 2011–2012, University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
- The Newberry Library, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, 2010–2011.
- NEH Summer Seminar Participant, "Re-Mapping the Renaissance: Exchange between Early Modern Islam and Europe," University of Maryland, June–July 2011.
- Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Middle Eastern Studies, Northwestern University, Department of History, 2007–2008
