Just got hold of my dear friend @asiyaislam.bsky.social’s book, based on her brilliant research on female service workers in India. Can’t wait to dive in!

An amazing thing happened… Welcome to the world Deniz 🧿 🌊

Bu şahane sempozyuma uzaktan da olsa katkı verme şansına sahip olacağım için çok mutluyum. Emek veren herkesin ellerine sağlık. 🙌🏻 @tarihvakfi.bsky.social

As hard as it is to feel anything but gloom these days, I’m pleased to see this book out with @CambridgeUP—fantastic chapters by brilliant historians, plus a small contribution from me and Dr Can Nacar. A must-read for your Ottoman, global, world & ME history courses

With so many uncertainties and anxieties surrounding our work these days, I’m incredibly grateful to this generous student and all the others who take the time to show appreciation for our courses and teaching. This nomination truly made my day.

Happy Valentines

I’m delighted to inform the academic society that my Leverhulme Research Fellowship application has been rejected.

I bought myself sarma to compensate, so there’s that.

"It's all nonsense.. The rain pitter patter pitter patter… Am I mad? All is as if the world is vanishing, the land fading in the dismal fall of the grey patter, and thunderstorms are chattering distant friends."

Stray cats in Ankara

Good morning new followers & my new BlueSky community 🤗 I will follow everyone back when I get a moment today. In the meantime, I’m teaching and writing about the history of women’s work in Ottoman and Indian textile manufacturing, focussing on the relationship between technology and skill

My entire academic life in the West is marked by trying to find Ottomanists and here I’m recreating the same struggle on a virtual platform [cause why not]