Bio
Ali Yaycioglu is a historian of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. His research centers on economic, political and legal institutions and practices as well as social and cultural life in southeastern Europe and the Middle East during the Ottoman Empire. He also has a research agenda on how people imagined, represented and recorded property, territory, and nature in early periods. Furthermore, Yaycioglu explores how we can use digital tools to understand, visualize and conceptualize these imaginations, representations and recordings. Yaycioglu’s first book, Partners of the Empire: Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions (Stanford University Press, 2016) offers a rethinking of the Ottoman Empire within the global context of the revolutionary age in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Currently Dr. Yaycioglu is working on a book project entitled The Ultimate Debt: State, Wealth and Death in the Ottoman Empire, in which he analyzes transformations in property, finance and statehood in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Ali Yaycioglu is the supervisor of a digital history project, Mapping Ottoman Epirus housed in Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis.
Academic Appointments
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Associate Professor, History
Administrative Appointments
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Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, Stanford University (2011 - Present)
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Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, Fairfield University (2010 - 2011)
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Mary Seeger O'Boyle Fellowship, Princeton University (2008 - 2009)
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Aga Khan Postdoctoral Fellowship, Islamic Art and Architecture, Harvard University (2008 - 2008)
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Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University (2006 - 2007)
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Merit Fellowship, Harvard University (2004 - 2005)
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KRUPP Foundation Fellowship, Center for European Studies (2003 - 2004)
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Fellowship, ARIT (American Research Institute in Turkey) (2003 - 2004)
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Graduate Fellowship, Harvard University (1998 - 2002)
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Islamic Studies Fellowship, McGill University (1996 - 1998)
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Graduate Fellowship, Bilkent University (1994 - 1997)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Research affiliate, Ottoman Sources for the History of Letkada, Greece, centered in Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Foundation for Research and Technology (2010)
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Research affiliate, Black Sea Trade Project Team, centered at California State University, Northridge (1998)
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Research affiliate, Historians of the Ottoman Empire project, Harvard University (2004 - 2005)
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Member, Search committee for Medieval History Position, History Department, Stanford (2012 - 2013)
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Chair, Ad hoc committee for Stanford in Istanbul Program at Koc University (2012 - 2013)
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Organizer, The Byzantine and Ottoman Worlds Workshop Series at Stanford, Stanford University (2011 - 2012)
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Chair, Departmental committee to review global history courses in the core curriculum, Fairfield University (2010 - 2011)
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Curator, The Ottoman World in the European Eyes Exhibition, Harvard University (2006 - 2006)
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UN Observer, General elections in Azerbaijan (2005 - 2005)
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Member, American Historical Association
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Member, Middle East Studies Association of North America
Program Affiliations
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Iranian Studies
Professional Education
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B.S., Middle East Technical University, International Relations (1994)
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M.A., Bilkent University, History (1997)
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Graduate, McGill University, Study in Islamic Studies (1998)
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Ph.D., Harvard University, History and Middle Eastern Studies (2008)
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University, Program in Hellenic Studies (2009)
2024-25 Courses
- Core Graduate Colloquium: History of the Ottoman Empire
HISTORY 384A (Aut) - Graduate Research Seminar in Ottoman and Middle East History
HISTORY 481, JEWISHST 481 (Spr) -
Independent Studies (7)
- Curricular Practical Training
HISTORY 299F (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Graduate Directed Reading
HISTORY 399W (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Graduate Research
HISTORY 499X (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Senior Research I
HISTORY 299A (Aut, Win, Spr) - Senior Research II
HISTORY 299B (Aut, Win, Spr) - Senior Research III
HISTORY 299C (Aut, Win, Spr) - Undergraduate Directed Research and Writing
HISTORY 299S (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Curricular Practical Training
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Core Graduate Colloquium: History of the Ottoman Empire
HISTORY 384A (Win) - Graduate Research Seminar in Ottoman and Middle East History
HISTORY 481, JEWISHST 287S, JEWISHST 481 (Spr, Sum) - Ottoman Palestine
HISTORY 282, HISTORY 382 (Spr)
2022-23 Courses
- Citizenship in the 21st Century
COLLEGE 102 (Win) - Graduate Research Seminar in Ottoman and Middle East History
HISTORY 481, JEWISHST 287S, JEWISHST 481 (Spr) - History of Modern Turkey
OSPISTAN 15 (Aut) - The Ottoman Empire and Iran: An Intertwined History of Islamic Eurasia
HISTORY 283B (Spr) - The Ottoman Empire and Iran: An Intertwined History of Islamic Eurasia
HISTORY 383B (Spr)
- Core Graduate Colloquium: History of the Ottoman Empire
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Lee Bagan, Farah Bazzi, Emre Can Daglioglu, Preetam Prakash -
Orals Evaluator
Demetrius Loufas, Ozgul Ozdemir, Merve Tekgurler, Morgan Tufan -
Doctoral Dissertation Co-Advisor (AC)
Ozgul Ozdemir -
Doctoral (Program)
Farah Bazzi, Federico Cortigiani, Ozgul Ozdemir, Merve Tekgurler, Aruuke Uran Kyzy, Yuanhao Zou
All Publications
- Review of "The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone" by J. Klein Social History 2013; 38 (2): 245 - 247
- Rahova 1784: Participation, Information and Power in the 18th Century Ottoman Balkans Ozer Ergenc Armagani edited by Ekin, U. Ankara. 2013
- Review of "The Ottoman Empire: A Short History" by S. Faroqhi Journal of Near Eastern Studies 2013; 72 (1): 148 - 149
- Provincial Elites and the Empire in the Late Ottoman World: Conflict or Partnership? Ottoman World edited by Woodhead, C. London: Routledge Press. 2012
- Review of "Foreign Investment in the Ottoman Empire: International Trade and Relations 1854-1914" by N. Geyikdagi Journal of Economic History 2012; 72 (4): 1121-1122
- Deed of Agreement (1808): An Attempt of Integration and Partnership Nizam-ı Kadimden Nizam-ı Cedide: III.Selim ve Domemi edited by Kenan, S. ISAM. 2010
- Ayan Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire edited by Agoston, G. 2008
- Rumeli'nde Geraylar ve Cengiz Mehmed Geray Sultan'in Hikayesi TurkTarih Kongresi, Ankara 2006; 2: 11-15
- Review of "Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950" by M. Mazower METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture 2005; 22 (1): 103-106
- Ottoman-Turkish Manuscripts in the Islamic and other Libraries of McGill Univeristy Fontanus 1998; 10: 41 - 64