Principal Investigators
Islamic Studies, University of Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg
East-Central European History, University of Giessen
Project 2017–2020: Transcultural Mediators, Strategies and Entangled Modernities: Transportation and Infrastructure in the Imperial Ports of Odessa and Varna in the 19th Century
Project 2020–2023: Trans-imperial Armenian Mobility and the Rise of Ottoman Tokat
GWZO Leipzig
Oriental Studies, University of Bochum
Project 2017–2020: (Christian) Arabs and (Russian) Jews: Identity and Zionism Debates in the Transottoman Migration Society of Palestine (1880-1925)
Eastern and South Eastern European History, University of Munich
Project 2017–2023: The Trading Companies Rallis and Zafiris in the Long 19th Century: A Contribution to the Global History of the Ottoman Empire
Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn
Project 2020–2023: Transottoman Semiospheres: Pavel A. Levašev's (d. 1820) und Necati Efendi's (d. after 1776) Imaginations of the Other
East European History, University of Jena
Project 2017–2020: Muslim Modernity as Local and Translocal Practice: Transimperial Entanglements of Modernisation Discourses between Russia, the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire
East European History, University of Bonn
Turkology, Freie Universität Berlin
Project 2017–2020: Entangled Revolutions: The Russian Factor in the Young Turk Movement
Turkology, Universtity of Bamberg
Iranian Studies, University of Marburg
Project 2017–2020: In the Triangle of the Great Powers: Interactional Spaces of the Kings and the Nobility from Eastern Georgia (1555-1724)
Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz
Project 2017–2020: “Gurbet Istanbul”: Being an Immigrant in the Ottoman Capital, 1500-1800
History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, University of Bochum
Project 2017–2023: The Venetian Army on Ottoman Soil 1684-1718: Translocalisation, Experience of War, TransculturationTransculturation
East European History, University of Mainz
Project 2020–2023: Crisis and Transformation of an Old Regime: Circulation of Ideologies and Institutions between Russian and Ottoman Empires, 1768-1774
Byzantine Studies, University of Mainz
Project 2017–2023: The Beginnings of Book Printing in the Ottoman Empire: The Role of Printed Books in the Transmission of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Heritage
Iraninan Studies, University of Hamburg
Project 2017–2023: Persian in the Ottoman Empire as Reflected in Selected Farhangs (Dictionaries) of the 16th Century: A Cultural Transottoman Configuration
Islamic Studies, University of Bonn
Project 2017–2023: Slaves of the Black Sea Region in Istanbul: Spatial and Social Mobility in the 17th Century
Iranian Studies, University of Bamberg
Project 2020–2023: Georgian Historiography of the 17th and 18th Century Modelling and 'Othering' Iran: Writing History in a Transottoman Context
Prof. Dr. Christoph Witzenrath
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn
Project 2017–2020: Slavery and Loyalty: The Russian and Ottoman Empires
GWZO Leipzig
Project 2020–2023: Russian Imperial Rule and Citizenship in the South Caucasus (1878–1914)