Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hakan Karateke

 
Style of Art : Academic / historian
Branch of Art : Ottoman and Turkish Culture, Language and Literature, early Republican and modern Turkish literature
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Dr. Hakan Karateke is Associate Professor of Ottoman and Turkish Culture, Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. He earned his doctorate degree in Ottoman and Turkish Studies from Bamberg University in Germany (1998) and completed his habilitation in the same field at Vienna University. Before joining the University of Chicago, he taught at Harvard University in 2002–2008. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Karateke has given many presentations at international conferences and symposiums and published books and many articles in various international journals. He published his dissertation on the Nineteenth-century Ottoman Court Ceremonies in Turkish. An annotated edition of an Ottoman protocol register appeared in 2007. Dr. Karateke is the co-editor of the online encyclopedic project "Historians of the Ottoman Empire" and the co-editor of the Database for Ottoman Inscriptions.

Selected publications:
Evliya Çelebi’s Journey from Bursa to the Dardanelles and Edirne. From the Fifth Book of Seyahatname. Edited with an introduction, translation and annotations. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2013.

“The Challenge of Periodization: New Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Historio­graphy.” Writing History at the Ottoman Court: Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future. Ed. by Emine Fetvacı, Erdem Çıpa (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013), 129-154.

“‘On the Tranquility and Repose of the Sultan’: The Construction of a Topos.” The Ottoman World. Ed. Christine Woodhead. (Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Rout­ledge, 2012), 116-129. Tur­kish translation will appear in 2013.

Reference: nelc.uchicago.edu, brill.com, ottomaninscriptions.com

Foundation : University of Chicago
Web Site : http://nelc.uchicago.edu/faculty/karateke
Email : karateke@uchicago.edu
City : Chicago
Country : U.S.A.
Preferred Lang. : Turkish / English
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