Curriculum Vitae. Ph.D., History, The Ohio State University, May 2013.

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1 Vefa Erginbaş Department of History Providence College Curriculum Vitae 1 Cunnigham Square Ruane Center for the Humanities 136 Providence, RI, erginbas@providence.edu Employment Assistant Professor, Providence College, Instructor, The Ohio State University, Teaching Associate, The Ohio State University, Education: Ph.D., History, The Ohio State University, May Thesis: The Appropriation of Islamic History and Ahl al-baytism in Ottoman Historical Writing, Advisor: Jane Hathaway Committee: Stephen Dale, Dale K. Van Kley Intensive Arabic Program, University of Chicago, June-August M.A., Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, Thesis: Forerunner of the Ottoman Enlightenment: Ibrahim Muteferrika ( ) and his intellectual landscape. B.A., Sociology, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, B.A., History, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, Major and Minor Fields Major: Islamic History (with Jane Hathaway and Stephen Dale) Minor: Early Modern European History (with Dale Van Kley) Minor: Early Modern Russian History (with Nicholas Breyfogle) 1

2 Publications Book (Editor) Ottoman Sunnism: New Perspectives (forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press, 2019) Book chapters Ottoman Historians Commentary on the history of early Islam, , in Turks and Islam, ed. Kemal Silay (Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2018) Enlightenment in the Ottoman Context: İbrahim Muteferrika s intellectual world, in The History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East, ed. G.J Roper (Leiden: Brill, 2014). Articles Problematizing Ottoman Sunnism: Ahl al-baytism in Ottoman Literary and Historical Writing in the 16 th century, Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient 60/5 (2017). Lizol, Bıçak ve Tentürdiyot: Cumhuriyetin İlk Yıllarında İntiharlar (Lysol, Knife, and Tincture of Iodine: The Suicides in the Early Republican Turkey), Tarih ve Toplum (History and Society), June Book Reviews Review of Ethan L. Menchinger, The First of the Modern Ottomans: The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vasif (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) International Journal of Middle East Studies 50/3 (2018) Review of Shahab Ahmed, What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016) Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (2018) Grants and Awards Committee to Aid Faculty Research (CAFR) Grant, Providence College, Summer $6700 Summer Grant, Sydney N. Fisher Fund in Ottoman Studies, Summer $ 1500 Turkish Cultural Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, $ 10,000 2

3 Sydney N. Fisher Fund and Adivar Fellowsip, $ 12,000 The Ohio State University Humanities Summer Award, Summer 2008.$ 4,000 Dr. Gordon P. K. Chu Memorial Scholarship, $1,000 Summer grant, Sidney N. Fisher Fund in Ottoman Studies, Summer $ 1,400 Foreign Language Enhancement Program (FLEP) Summer fellowship in Arabic Learning, University of Chicago, Summer $ 3,000 Full Scholarship for M.A. in History at Sabancı University, $ 30,000 Honors Ranked 3rd in the department of Sociology upon graduation from the Bogazici University, Presentations Bridging the Sunni-Shi ite Divide: A Historical Look at the Appropriation of the Twelve Imams in the Ottoman Empire, Rethinking Nationalism, Sectarianism and Ethno-Religious Mobilisation in the Middle East January 2018, University of Oxford. Reading Ottoman Sunnism through Islamic history: Approaches towards Yazid b. Muawiyah in the Ottoman historical writing before 1650, Rethinking Ottoman Sunnitization Workshop, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, August From Sirat to Ghaza: Recontextualizing Mustafa Darir s Siretü n Nebi in the Sixteenth Century Religious Milieu 14 th International Conference on Ottoman Social and Economic History (ICOSEH), Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, July 24-28, Sofia, Bulgaria. Participant Round Table Discussion, Periodization in the Ottoman History, 13 th Great Lakes Ottomanist Workshop, April 2017, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Reappraising religiosity in the reign of Murad III: Mustafa Darir s Siretü n Nebi and its unspoken content Middle East Studies Association (MESA) 50th Annual Meeting, November 2016, Boston, MA. Rethinking Ibn Khaldunism in the Ottoman Empire: Did the Ottomans use Ibn Khaldun only as a declinist? 12 th Great Lakes Ottomanist Workshop (GLOW), May, York University, Toronto, Canada. 3

4 Organizer of the panel titled Beyond Confessionalization and Orthodoxy: New Perspectives on Ottoman Sunnism, Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, November 2015, Denver, Colorado Many faces of Ottoman Sunnism: Approaches toward Yazid ibn Muawiya in Ottoman Historical and Literary Writing, Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, November 2015, Denver, Colorado Ottoman Universal Histories: What do they tell us about the Ottomans view of the world, 11 th Great Lakes Ottomanist Workshop (GLOW) 8-10 May 2015, State University of New York at Oswego. Ottoman Sunnism Contested: Ahl al-baytism in Ottoman historical writing to 1650, Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, November 2014, Washington D.C. Problematizing Ottoman Sunnism: Ahl al-baytism in Ottoman historical writing, , Ciepo-21, 21st Symposium of the Comite International Des Etudes Pre-Ottomanes Et Ottomanes (Ciepo) Budapest, 7 11 October Were the Ottomans zealot Sunnis? Perspectives from Ottoman historical writing to mid-17 th century, Turkish Studies Workshop, Niagara University, March, Chair of the panel entitled Spatial Temporal and Textual Geographies in the Ottoman Empire, Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, 1-4 December 2011, Washington D.C. The appropriation of Islamic History in Ottoman Historical Writing, presented in the 26 th Middle East History and Theory Conference (MEHAT), May 2011, University of Chicago. The appropriation of Islamic History in Ottoman Historical Writing, presented in the 5 th Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop (GLOW) in University of Cincinnati, 30 April-1 May, 2011 Ottoman historians commentary on the history of early Islam, 16 th and 17 th centuries, presented in Turks and Islam conference in the Indiana University, Bloomington, September, 2010 The Intellectual Landscape of the Founder of the first Ottoman Turkish Press: Ibrahim Müteferrika ( ), presented in Third International Symposium on the History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East part of 24th Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI), September 2008, Leipzig, Germany. Teaching Experience Assistant Professor, Providence College, Courses taught Undergraduate Development of Western Civilization 101 and 102 4

5 Development of Western Civilization Colloquium: Islam and the West History of the pre-modern Middle East History of the Modern Middle East Seminar: Ottomans and Safavids Graduate Special Topics: World of Early and Medieval Islam History of the pre-modern Middle East History of the Modern Middle East Assistant instructor and teaching assistant, Spring 2012-Spring 2013, Contemporary Issues in the Middle East (INTSTDS 645), The Ohio State University. Assistant instructor and teaching assistant, Winter Fall Introduction to the History of the Middle East. (INTSDS 245), The Ohio State University. Lecturer, the Ohio State University, o 2009 Autumn, 2010 Winter, 2010 Spring, 2010 Summer, 2010 Winter, 2010 Spring HIST 181, World History to o 2010 Autumn HIST 181, World History since Participant, official review of Worlds of History, Volume 1 to 1500: A Comparative Reader (Bedford, St. Martins, 4 th.ed, 2010) edited by Kevin Reilly. July Graduate Teaching Associate, the Ohio State University, Discussion section leader o 2006 Autumn, 2007 Autumn, 2008 Winter HIST 181, World History to 1500 o 2007 Spring HIST 111, Western Civilization to 1500 o 2008 Spring HIST 112, Western Civilization since 1500 Grader o 2007 Winter HIST 155, US History to 1877 o 2007 Winter HIST 156, US History since 1877 Teaching Assistant, Sabanci University, o 2003 Fall, 2004 Fall SPS 101, Introduction to the Social and Political Sciences I. o 2003 Spring, 2004 Spring SPS 102, Introduction to the Social and Political Sciences II. Teaching Areas Islamic History Middle Eastern History Ottoman History History of Turkish Republic 5

6 Historical Methods and Thoughts World History Western Civilization Early Modern Europe Comparative Empires Invited Lectures 16 Yüzyılda Osmanlı Sünniliğini Yeniden Düşünmek: Osmanlı İslam tarihi yazımının düşündürdükleri, Murat Hüdavendigar University (Istanbul), August 4, The Appropriation of Islamic History in Ottoman Historical Writing, Stephen F. Austin State University, January 27, From Past to Present: A Century of Turkish Democracy, Texas A&M University, January 27, 2012 Rumi s Poetry: The search for Unity with Jane Smirniotopoulos, Ohio Dominican University, Martin de Porres Center, February 24, Elites and People at Play: A century of Turkish Democracy, 1908-present, Youngstown State University, November, 17, Ottoman Legacy in Modern Turkey, Cleveland State University, November 2, Language and Research Skills: Turkish, native Ottoman Turkish, excellent Arabic, excellent research skills French, excellent research skills. Professional Affiliation Member, American Historical Association (AHA) Member, Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) Service Member, Calendar committee and Academic Calendar Subcommittee, Member, Committee to Promote Research, Member, Committee on Social Media and Digital Outreach, Founder and Editor, KUDOS newsletter, History Dept., Member, America and the World Search Committee,

7 Thesis advised Advisor, John Bugnacki, "The Garden of Forking Paths": Islamic Legal Transformations in the Ottoman Empire During the Nineteenth Century Second Reader, Eric Potenger, Acculturation of Turks in Germany, Extra-curricular Activities with students Visit to Museum of Fine Arts in Boston with DWC 202 (Colloquium on Islam and the West) students 1 April Visit to MET Museum s Islamic Collection with graduate students, 25 April 2014 and 24 April