Harvard University, Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, July- September 2011, February-July 2010, June-August 2008.

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1 ASLI NİYAZİOĞLU Associate Professor in History Koç University History Department Rumeli Feneri Yolu Sarıyer, Istanbul Turkey (90) Education Harvard University Ph.D., History and Middle Eastern Studies November Cambridge, MA Boğaziçi University B.A., History June Graduated in departmental first rank with high honours. Istanbul Academic Positions Koç University, İstanbul, Assistant Professor, History Department, since September Associate Professor in Early Modern History since May 2013 (Rank granted by Higher Education Council, YÖK) Harvard University, Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, July- September 2011, February-July 2010, June-August University of Oxford, Departmental Lecturer in Ottoman History, Oriental Institute, January 2005-September Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, Fellow in the Program Cultural Mobility in Near Eastern Literatures, October 2003-January Harvard-Koç Ottoman Language Summer School, Ayvalık, Instructor, Publications Book Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul: A Seventeenth Century Biographer's Perspective (Book Manuscript, work-in-progress, expected completion May 2014) Aşık Çelebi ve Şairler Tezkiresi Üzerine Yazılar, (Studies on Aşık Çelebi and his Biographical Dictionary of Poets) co-edited with Hatice Aynur, (İstanbul: Koç University Press, 2011). Articles (in English) How to Read an Ottoman Poet's Dream? Friends, Patrons and the Execution of Fiġānī (d.938/1532) Middle Eastern Literatures : Secrets of the Ottoman Lives? in The Uses of First Person Writings Africa, America, Asia, Europe, François-Joseph Ruggui, ed. (Peter Lang, Brussels: 2013),

2 In the Dream Realm of a Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Biographer: Taşköprizade and the Sufi Sheikhs in Sufism and Society: Arrangements of the Mystical in the Muslim World, C.E., ed. John J. Curry and Erik S. Ohlander (London and New York: 2011), Ottoman Biography Writing and the Halveti-Sünbüli Sheikhs of Sixteenth Century Istanbul in Many Ways of Speaking About the Self, Middle Eastern Ego-Documents in Arabic, Persian and Turkish (14 th -20 th Century), Ralph Elger and Yavuz Erköse eds. (Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden: 2010): Turkish Translation: Halveti Sünbüli Şeyhlerinin Rüyaları ve Osmanlı Biyografi Yazıcılığı Osmanlılar III Doğu Batı Düşünce Dergisi 53 (2010): Dreams of the Very Special Dead: Nevizade Atai s (d.1635) Reasons for Composing His Mesnevis Archivum Ottomanicum 25 (2008): The Sixteenth Century Ottoman Poet in Reclusion, in. Poetry s Voice, Society s Norms: Forms of Interaction Between Middle Eastern Writers and Their Societies, Angelika Neuwirth, Barbara Winckler, Andreas Pflitsch eds. (Reichert, Berlin: 2006): Turkish Translation: Uzlet ve On Altıncı Yüzyıl Osmanlı Şairi Kritik 1 (2008): Lives of a Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Sufi: Sheikh Bali Efendi and his Biographers, in Uygurlardan Osmanlıya Şinasi Tekin Armağanı, Fatma Büyükkarcı Yılmaz and Günay Kut eds. (Simurg, İstanbul: 2006): Encyclopaedia Article "The Ruling Institution in the Ottoman Empire." World History Encyclopedia, Era 6: The First Global Age, Alexander Mikaberidze et al. (CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011): ; available online ABC-CLIO ebook Collection. Articles (In Turkish) Babalar ve Oğullar: Evliya Çelebi Babasını Neden Sözlü Kaynak Olarak Kullandı? Evliya Çelebi ve Sözlü Kaynakları, Ankara: UNESCO, (2012): Aşık Çelebi ye Rüyaların Söyledikleri in Aşık Çelebi ve Şairler Tezkeresi Üzerine Yazılar, co-edited with Hatice Aynur, (İstanbul: Koç University Press, 2011): On Altıncı Yüzyıl Sonunda Osmanlı'da Kadılık Kabusu ve Nihânî nin Rüyası Journal of Turkish Studies/Türklük Bilgisi Araştırmaları 31/II (2007): Forthcoming Fighānī Encylopedia of Islam, Third Edition. Ṭashkoprīzāda, I.B. Taurus Biographical Dictionary of Islamic Civilization. 2

3 Scholarly Presentations (invited, international) Oxford University, Oriental Institute, Dreams and Ottoman Sufi Lives: A Study of a Seventeenth Centuryr Biography Project, Princeton University Symposium Belief and Unbelief: An Interdiciplinary Symposium Princeton: Whom to Believe? Ottoman Biographers and Initiation Dreams, Université de Paris-Sorbonne Symposium Les usage de l écrit du for privé, Paris: What do Dreams Reveal about the Secrets of the Ottoman Lives? Harvard University CMES Cambridge, How to Read Aşık Çelebi s Biographies: Dream of the Executed Poet Figani (d.1537), Harvard University CMES, Cambridge, What Haunted the Ottomans: Living and the Dead in a Seventeenth Century Biographical Work, Ludwig-Maximilian University Symposium, Convention and Innovation in Ego Documents Munich: This-Worldly Engagements, Other-Worldly Concerns: Yusuf Sinan (d. 1579) and Writing the Lives of the Sufi Sheikhs, Harvard University Symposium Sebeb-i Telif: A Symposium on Ottoman Primary Sources Cambridge: Dreams of the Very Special Dead: Nevizade Atai s (d.1635) Reasons for Composing His Mesnevis, SOAS University of London, And He Woke up in Terror: Nightmares of the Late Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Ulema, University of Cambridge, TSG Symposium: Imperial Visions: Mehmed II and his Topkapı Palace, Wissenschaftskolleg Summer Academy in Alexandria: Literatures and Borders- Delimitations, Transgressions Images of Youth in the Late Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Novel and Biography, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Ottoman Biographers, Life Stories They Remembered an Revised, Paper presented for the Project Ego Documents in Cross-Cultur Perspective, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Conference Poetry s Voice, Society s Norms: Forms of Interaction between Middle Eastern Writers and their Societies, Dreaming of the Dead Partying with the Living, Scholarly Presentations (invited, Turkey) Sakarya University, Sakarya, Tarih Yazıcılığında Rüyalar Bilim ve Sanat Vakfı, İstanbul, Menakıbnameler 4: Tezkiretü l Halvetiyye, Yusuf Sinan Harvard-Koç Ottoman Summer School, Cunda, A World Turned Upside Down? A Study of Hüdai s (d. 1628) Initiation İstanbul Şehir University Workshop 17. Yüzyılda Osmanlı İmparatorluğu: Kriz ve Dönüşüm Istanbul, On Yedinci Yüzyıl Osmanlı Biyografilerinde Rüyaları Okumak

4 Sabancı University, Istanbul, The Ottoman Dream Mirrors and the Ulema CHEP Conference The Cultural History of Emotions in Pre-Modernity II, Istanbul: Fear and Pleasure at a Sixteenth Century Ottoman Garden, Gazi and Bilkent Universities Symposium Evliya Çelebi nin Sözlü Kaynakları, Ankara: Babalar ve Oğullar: Evliya Çelebi Babasını Neden Sözlü Kaynak Olarak Kullandı? American Research Institute in Turkey, İstanbul: Dreams, Biography Writing, and the Halveti-Sünbüli Sheikhs in Late Sixteenth Century İstanbul, Conference Presentations and Participation Presenter, Leiden University Eurasian Empires Summer School, Integration Processes and Identity formations in Eurasian Empires, Amsterdam, Empire-Building and Biography Writing Chairperson, CHEP Istanbul, Conference The Cultural History of Emotions in Pre- Modernity II, Passions and Impressions, Chairperson, Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Istanbul, Annual Symposium Istanbul and Water, Ottoman Waterways and the City, Commentator and Chairperson, Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Istanbul, Mini-Symposia Towards an Understanding of Ottoman Early Modernity: Transformations in State, Society, Culture, Presenter, World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, at the panel Emotional Communities in the Middle East and North Africa: Historical and Anthropological Approaches : Fear and Pleasure at a Sixteenth Century Ottoman Party, Barcelona, 2010 Presenter, Symposium The Sixteenth Century Ottoman Biographer (Aşık Çelebi and H Work) : Aşık Çelebi ye Rüyaların Söyledikleri, (Aşık Çelebi and Dreams), Netherlands Institute, Istanbul, Presenter, Medieval & Renaissance Forum Dreams, Imagination, Fantasy : Dreams and Sufi Lives in Late Sixteenth Century Istanbul, Plymouth New Hampshire, 2009 Conference Organization History Seminars, Orient Institut and Koç University History Department, since Co-organizer with Richard Wittmann, Orient Institut, seminars by Cengiz Kırlı and Tülün Değirmenci, İstanbul, 2011 and Organizer and Chairperson, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin, Workshop Narratives of Motion: Modernism, Technology, and Literature,

5 International Research Projects Ottoman Biography Studies Group, Since Co-founder with Prof. Aynur, The interdisciplinary working group which brings together historians and literary historians with an aim to develop new approaches to the study of the early modern Ottoman life writing. Organizer, Bi-Weekly seminars on Ottoman chronicler Naima (d.1716) with the fellows of the KU Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Istanbul, Fall Co-organizer with Himmet Taşkömür, Harvard University, Workshop on the sixteenth century Ottoman biographical sources, İstanbul, Co-organizer with Jan Schmidt from Leiden University and Hatice Aynur from İstanbul Şehir University, Symposium on Aşık Çelebi s Biographical Dictionary at the Netherlands Institute, Istanbul, Honors and Fellowships Science Academy Young Scientist Award, (BAGEP), Kolt Teaching Innovation Grant, Koç-Harvard University Summer Research Grant, 2011 and Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Visiting Scholar, Spring British Institute at Ankara Research Grant, Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, Fellowship, and awarded an extension for the Winter Semester Harvard Grant for Tuition and Full Stipend Harvard University CMES Research Travel Grant, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship, , Harvard University Mellon Summer Language Study Grant, Boğaziçi University Alumni Association Award, ; Awarded upon History Department entrance in the first rank. University Service Member of the Faculty Executive Council, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, elected by the faculty, since Member of the Graduate School of Social Sciences Executive Council, History Department Coordinator, College of Social Sciences and Humanities Dean s Office, appointed by the dean, Graduate Student Coordinator, CSHS Master Program, Student Coordinator for the Harvard-Koç Ottoman Summer School, since Bologna Process Coordinator for the History Department, since Member of the University Archives Project, since Member of Strategic Planning Committee, Board of Trustees presentation,

6 Professional Service Editorial Board Member: Middle Eastern Literatures, since Reviewer: Journal of Near Eastern Studies; New Perspectives on Turkey, since 2008 Community Outreach and Media Presentations Interviews, Turkish television and newspapers TRT, Akşam, HaberTürk: Interview for Ottoman History podcast, Interviews for KUtalks for Koç University undergraduates, watch?v=glob6nowkn0; watch?v=10zpgpcw1zw; watch?v=u9viactbgle Graduate Thesis Supervised Görkem Özizmirli Fear and the Seventeenth Century Ottomans: A Study of Evliya Çelebi s Book of Travels (in progress). Deniz Zorlu, Remembering the Social Movements of the 1968 Era in Turkey, M.A. Thesis, September Ayşe Nur Sülüş, Administration of Ottoman Public Dept, Providing a Sense of Security and Fighting Against Tax Evasion? M.A. Thesis, January Courses Taught Koç University: Area Travels in Ottoman History with Evliya Çelebi History of the Ottoman State, Core Society and Culture in the Early Modern Europe Society and Culture in the Ottoman Empire History of the Turkish Revolution Graduate Ottoman Imagination: A Cultural History Advanced Topics in the History of Culture and Society University of Oxford History of the Ottoman Empire Ottoman Historical Texts (both graduate and undergraduate levels) Freie Universitaet Berlin The Ghazal in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Literature (Guest Lecturer in a course organized by Prof. Angelika Neuwirth) Harvard-Koç Ottoman Language Summer School Academic Turkish (graduate) 6

7 Teaching Projects Digital Humanities Teaching Projects Geographic Information Systems Map Project, co-taught with Dr. Ali Erkan, Ithaca College, Fulbright Affiliate Koç University, Spring Students created online maps of the seventeenth century Istanbul providing textual and visual information using the ArcGIS software for the course Travels in Ottoman History with Evliya Çelebi. KU Ottoman History Podcasts, Emrah Gürkan and Chris Graiten, Georgetown University, supported by Koç University Kolt Teaching Innovation Grant, Fall Students recorded podcasts of discussions on selected topics of the course to be aired on Koç University radio as well as the for the course History of the Ottoman State. History Book Club, Founder and organizer, since Topics have included leisure and pleasure, new forms of socialization, and the social history of imagination in the early modern Istanbul discussed among participants among the Koç University students, staff, and faculty. History Book Club with the Alumni, Founder and organizer, since Topics have included Writing History/Writing Lives for Spring 2013 and Remembering and Forgetting for Fall Meetings aimed to bring together the alumni and the undergraduates. History Workshop with the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations Fellows, Founder and organizer, Workshop series for undergraduate and graduate students; Sixteenth century Istanbul as a city of plague (workshop directed by Nükhet Varlık) and as a city of poets (workshop directed by Zeynep Altok). Languages Turkish (native), English (fluent), Ottoman Turkish and Paleography (advanced reading knowledge), Classical Arabic (intermediate reading knowledge), French (intermediate reading knowledge), Spanish (intermediate), German (elementary), Persian (elementary). 7