Research Fellows

Malkhazi Archvadze

Iranian Studies, University of Bamberg

Proect 2020–2023: Georgian Historiography of the 17th and 18th Century Modelling and 'Othering' Iran: Writing History in a Transottoman Context

Dr. Stephanie Armer 

Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg

Project 2017–2020: Trade with the Orient in the Early Modern Period and the Formation of Identity of the Transylvanian Saxons: The Ottoman Carpets of the Protestant Parish Church in Bistriţa (Romania) in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Dr. Necati Alkan

Turcology, University of Bamberg

Project 2020–2022: Concepts of Boundaries and the Construction of Sociocultural Difference in (Trans)Ottoman Contexts: Circulation of Knowledge, Conceptual Changes and Transfers, 16th-19th Centuries

Alexander Bauer

Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn

Project 2020–2023: Transottoman Semiospheres: Pavel A. Levašev's (d. 1820) and Necati Efendi's (d. after 1776) Imaginations of the Other

Dr. Eveline Dierauff 

Oriental and Islamic Studies, University of Bochum

Project 2017–2021: (Christian) Arabs and (Russian) Jews: Identity and Zionism Debates in the Transottoman Migration Society of Palestine (1880-1925)

Alexandra Gerykova 

East European History, University of Giessen

Project 2017–2021: “Next Year in Jerusalem”: Jewish Identity Concepts and the Zionism Debates in the Transottoman Migration Society of Palestine between 1880 and 1925

Eva Hanke 

Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg

Project 2017–2020: Trade with the Orient in the Early Modern Period and the Formation of Identity of the Transylvanian Saxons: The Ottoman Carpets of the Protestant Parish Church in Bistriţa (Romania) in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Dr. Andreas Helmedach 

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

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Henning 

History of Islam, Universtity of Mainz

Project 2017–2020: Concepts of Boundaries and the Construction of Sociocultural Difference in (Trans)Ottoman Contexts: Circulation of Knowledge, Conceptual Changes and Transfers, 16th-19th Centuries

Caspar Hillebrand

Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn

Project 2020–2023: Transottoman Semiospheres: Pavel A. Levašev's (d. 1820) and Necati Efendi's (d. after 1776) Imaginations of the Other

Dr Polina Ivanova 

East European History, University of Giessen

Project 2020–2023: Transimperial Armenian Mobility and the Rise of Ottoman Tokat

Yusuf Karabıçak

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

Dr. Anja Kregeloh 

Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg

Project 2017–2020: Trade with the Orient in the Early Modern Period and the Formation of Identity of the Transylvanian Saxons: The Ottoman Carpets of the Protestant Parish Church in Bistriţa (Romania) in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Taisiya Leber

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

Stanislav Mohylnyi 

Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn

Project 2017–2020: Slavery and Loyalty: The Russian and Ottoman Empires

Dr. Lyubomir Pozharliev

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

Dr. Ani Sargsyan 

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

Tobias Sick

Islamic Studies, University of Leipzig

Project 2020–2023: Inner-Islamic Transfer of Knowledge in the Ottoman Empire: on Translations of Works of Islamic Mysticism within Transregional Sufi Networks in the Anatolian and Arab Provinces

Dr. Anna Vlachopoulou

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