Emrah Safa Gürkan (born 16 January 1981) is a Turkish historian, professor of Ottoman studies and academic.

Academic career

Having received his B.A. in International Affairs at

Bilkent University Bilkent University ( tr, Bilkent Üniversitesi) is a private university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by Prof. İhsan Doğramacı in 1984, with the aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research. It is constan ...

(2003), Gürkan wrote his M.A. thesis titled ''Ottoman Corsairs in the Western Mediterranean and Their Place in the Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry, 1505-1535'' with Halil Inalcık (2006). He then moved to

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...

where he completed his Ph.D with a dissertation on early modern espionage (''Espionage in the 16th Century Mediterranean: Secret Diplomacy, Mediterranean Go-Betweens and the Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry,'' 2012). Gürkan studies the early modern Mediterranean with a focus on espionage, piracy, slavery, religious conversion, naval technology and the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and the West. He has written a number of articles in English, Turkish, Italian, Spanish and German as well as two scientific monographs, the first of which received Scientific Monograph of the Year Award from the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA). Gürkan also receivedthe Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the same institution and Promising Scientist Award at the 14th Kadir Has Awards. Gürkan has worked as a historical consultant to the TV series ''

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'' and '' Rise of Empires: Ottoman''. In 2011,with Chris Gratien, he founded the Ottoman History Podcast, a website that has more than 400 interviews in four languages with leading academics.

Awards

Turkish Academy of Sciences The Turkish Academy of Sciences ( tr, Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi – TÜBA) is an autonomous scholarly association aimed at promoting scientific activities in Turkey. Although it is attached to the office of the Prime Minister and is largely fund ...

, ''Outstanding Young Scientist Award'' (2018) * 14th Kadir Has Awards, ''Promising Scientist Award'' (2018) *

, ''Scientific Monograph of the Year'' (2018) – Sultanın Casusları

Selected works

* ''Ezbere Yaşayanlar: Vazgeçemediğimiz Alışkanlıkların Kökenleri'' (Parrot-fashion Lives: Origins of our Compelling Habits, İstanbul: Kronik, 2022) * ''Bunu Herkes Bilir: Tarihteki Yanlış Sorulara Doğru Cevaplar'' (Everybody Knows It: Right Answers to Wrong Questions in History, İstanbul: Kronik, 2020) * ''Sultanın Korsanları: Osmanlı Akdenizi’nde Gazâ, Yağma ve Esaret, 1500 – 1700'' (Pirates of the Sultan: Holy War, Booty and Slavery in the Ottoman Mediterranean, 1500 – 1700, İstanbul: Kronik, 2018) * ''Sultanın Casusları: 16. Yüzyılda İstihbarat, Sabotaj ve Rüşvet Ağları'' (Spies of the Sultan: Intelligence, Sabotage and Bribery in the 16th century, İstanbul: Kronik, 2017) * ''Osmanlı İstanbulu: Uluslararası Osmanlı İstanbulu Sempozyumu Bildirileri'' (Istanbul: İstanbul 29 Mayıs University Publishing, 2014–2018), 5 vol., with Feridun Emecen and Ali Akyıldız.

References

External links

Academia.edu profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gurkan, Emrah Safa 21st-century Turkish historians 1981 births Living people Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Bilkent University alumni Members of the Turkish Academy of Sciences