Veysel œąimĆek teaches modern Turkish and Ottoman Turkish at Âé¶čAV. 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 Âé¶čAV (2015-16). His research interests include political, social, and intellectual history of the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic (c. 1750â1950), 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. 1500â1900
Visualizing the road/messenger networks in the Balkans and the Middle East, c. 1830
Creating animated battlemaps featuring the Ottomansâ âLong Great Warâ in the Balkans and the Middle East, 1912â1922
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., âLiving Empire: Ottoman Identities in Transition, 1700â1850.â Special issue, The Journal of Ottoman Studies, no. 44 (2014): 9â501
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
âUnder Fire and Lice: Experiences of an Ottoman Soldier in World War I and the Turkish War of Independence (1919â1922)â 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): 143â156
ââBackstabbing Arabsâ and âShirking Kurdsâ: History, Nationalism, and Turkish Memory of World War I.â In The Great War: From Memory to History, eds. Jonathan Vance et al. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015: 99â126
âThe First âLittle Mehmedsâ: Conscripts for the Ottoman Army, 1826â53.â The Journal of Ottoman Studies, no. 44 (2014): 265â311
Other Publications
âOsmanlı Ä°mparatorluÄuânda DĂŒzenli Ordu için Asker Toplanması: 1826â1853â [Recruitment for the Regular Army in the Ottoman Empire: 1826â1853]. Toplumsal Tarih [Social History, Istanbul], no. 198 (2010): 36â42
Transcription of selected early nineteenthâcentury Ottoman constitutional texts. In 1815â1847, vol. 2 of Quellen zur EuropĂ€ischen Verfassungsgeschichte im 19. Jahrhundert [Handbook of European Constitutional History in the Nineteenth Century]. Bonn: J. H. W Dietz Nachfolger, 2010. CDâROM
Holbrook, Victoria, âHĂŒsnâĂŒ AĆkâa Ănsöz.â Trans. Veysel Simsek and Emrah PelvanoÄlu. Yasakmeyve, no. 12 (2005): 52â59
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