Baki Tezcan holds a B.A. in International Relations from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey (1994), and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University (1996, 2001).  His recently completed book manuscript is entitled The Second Empire: The transformation of the Ottoman polity in the early modern period. 

Representative Publications: Co-editor with Karl Barbir, Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman World: a volume of essays in honor of Norman Itzkowitz (Madison: University of Wisconsin Madison Center of Turkish Studies, 2007), in press.“The Politics of Early Modern Ottoman Historiography,” in The Early Modern Ottomans: Remapping the Empire, eds., Virginia H. Aksan and Daniel Goffman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 167-98.“Dispelling the Darkness: the politics of ‘race’ in the early seventeenth century Ottoman Empire in the light of the life and work of Mullah Ali,” International Journal of Turkish Studies 13 (2007): 73-95.

Courses Taught

HIS 6 – Introduction to the Middle East
HIS 10B – World History, c. 1350-1850
HIS 190C – Middle Eastern History III: The Ottomans, 1401-1730
HIS 102X – Undergraduate Proseminar in History: Holy War in Comparative Perspective
HIS 104B-C – Honors Thesis (on such topics as the Armenian Genocide)
HIS 201W – Advanced Topics in World History: Race and Color across Time and Space
HIS 299D – Reading Course (on late medieval and early modern Middle Eastern history)
RST 60 – Introduction to Islam
RST65C – The Qur’an and its Interpreation
RST 199 – Special Study (on such topics as contemporary American Muslim women)
MSA 100 – Middle East and South Asia: Comparative Perspectives