https://sasn.rutgers.edu/nukhet-varlik Nükhet Varlık is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University–Newark. Her research focuses on disease, death, medicine, and public health in the Ottoman Empire. Her first book, Plague and
Zeynep Akçakaya is a historian of agriculture, economy, and environment in the Ottoman Empire of the 19th Century. Her scholarly focus includes global environmental history, Ottoman agricultural history, and rural
Akarsu Melike Demirkol is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Classical Ottoman Literature at Boğaziçi University. She is interested in micro-environments of historical cities and how they’re created – as
Tunahan Durmaz is a Ph.D. candidate in Department of History at European University Institute, Florence. Prior to his doctoral studies, he earned his B.A. in History with a minor in