Cemal Kafadar named Vehbi Koç Professor in Turkish Studies
Islamic Studies Today 1997
Cemal Kafadar Named Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies
Cemal Kafadar, a scholar of late medieval and early modern social and cultural history of the Middle East and Southeast Europe, began teaching at Harvard as Professor of History in 1993 and was named Harvard’s first Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies in 1997. Professor Kafadar teaches courses on Ottoman history, urban space, popular culture, and cinema. His publications include Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State (1995); the articles, “How Dark is the History of the Night, How Black the Story of Coffee, How Bitter the Tale of Love: the Changing Measure of Leisure and Pleasure in Early Modern Istanbul” (2014) and “Evliya Çelebi in Dalmatia: an Ottoman Traveler’s Encounters with the Arts of the Franks” (2014); and a new book in Turkish: Kendine Ait Bir Roma (2017).
