Emrah Safa Gürkan Explained

Emrah Safa Gürkan
Birth Date:16 January 1981
Birth Place:Değirmendere, Gölcük, Turkey
Alma Mater:Georgetown University
Bilkent University
Occupation:Historian
Sub Discipline:Ottoman history
Mediterranean history
Doctoral Advisor:Halil İnalcık, Gábor Ágoston
Workplaces:Istanbul 29 Mayis Universitesi

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 (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).[1] He then moved to Georgetown University 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).[2]

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).[3] Gürkan also received the Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the same institution[4] and Promising Scientist Award at the 14th Kadir Has Awards.[5]

Gürkan has worked as a historical consultant to the TV series Fatih and . In 2011,with Chris Gratien, he founded the Ottoman History Podcast, a website that has more than 400 interviews in four languages with many different "authors and researchers".[6]

Awards

Selected works

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Gürkan, Emrah Safa. Ottoman Corsairs in the Western Mediterranean and Their Place in the Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry, 1505-1535. The Institute of Economics and Social Sciences, Bilkent University. 2006. Ankara. 2020-12-02. 2020-07-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20200708115906/http://www.thesis.bilkent.edu.tr/0003113.pdf. dead.
  2. Book: Gürkan, Emrah Safa. Espionage in the 16th century Mediterranean: Secret Diplomacy, Mediterranean Go-Betweens and the Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry. Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Georgetown University. 2012. Washington, D.C..
  3. Web site: Akademisyenlerimize (TÜBA) Bilimsel Telif Eser Ödülleri. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190604105828/https://www.29mayis.edu.tr/tr/haber/akademisyenlerimize-tuba-bilimsel-telif-eser-odulleri. 4 June 2019. 2 December 2020.
  4. Web site: TÜBA 2018 Üstün Başarılı Genç Bilim İnsanı ve Bilimsel Eser Ödülleri Açıklandı. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20181217034740/http://tuba.gov.tr/tr/haberler/akademiden-haberler/tuba-2018-ustun-basarili-genc-bilim-insani-ve-bilimsel-eser-odulleri-aciklandi. 17 December 2018. 2 December 2020.
  5. Web site: 2018-03-29 . Emrah Safa Gürkan (PhD'12) Chosen as the "Promising Scholar of the Year" at the 14th Kadir Has Awards . 2022-06-05 . Department of History . en-US.
  6. Web site: 2016-06-17 . Meet the Students Who Are Shaking the Teaching of History . 2022-06-06 . HuffPost UK . en.

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