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CURRICULUM VITAE EFE MURAT BALIKÇIOĞLU Department of History Department of Religion Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street Founders Hall 220 Harvard University Wellesley, MA 02481 Cambridge, MA 02138 [email protected] [email protected] (until July 2020) p: 781-283-2611 WORK 2019-2020 Wellesley College Lecturer in Islamic History at the Department of Religion EDUCATION 2010-2019 Harvard University Ph.D. Degree in History Dissertation Title: “A Coherence of Incoherences: Graeco- Arabic Philosophy and the Ottoman Synthesis of Philosophy with Sharia” Fields: Ottoman History, Islamic Intellectual History: Philosophy and Theology, Renaissance Intellectual History Advisors: Cemal Kafadar, Khaled El-Rouayheb, James Hankins, and Roy Parviz Mottahedeh. 2010-2013 Harvard University A.M. Degree in History and Middle Eastern Studies 2006-2010 Princeton University B.A. Degree in Philosophy (2010) Princeton University, Department of Philosophy Advisors: Philip Pettit and Anthony Appiah Minor in Public and International Affairs Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Studies Advisor: Robert Finn Minor in Near Eastern Studies Princeton University, Department of Near Eastern Studies Minor in Judaic Studies Princeton University, Program in Judaic Studies LANGUAGES Turkish (native), English (perfect fluency), Classical Arabic (advanced reading), Ottoman Turkish (advanced reading), German (advancaed reading), Persian (advanced reading), Latin/Italian (basic skills), and French (basic skills). ACADEMIC INTERESTS Political, Social, Intellectual, and Cultural History in the Ottoman Empire; Religion, Politics, and Culture in Pre-Modern Islamic Societies; Islamic Intellectual History: Arabic Philosophy, Theology, and Sufism; Institutional and Educational History in Islam; History of Sciences; Political, Social, and Intellectual History in Early Modern Europe, the Late Byzantine Empire, and the Italian Renaissance; Literatues in the Middle East; Pre-Modern and Modern Turkish and Persian Poetry; Political Islam in the Modern Middle East; Gender Studies; Global History/World Civilizations. 1 DIGITAL HUMANITIES May 29-June 8, 2018 Harvard University Center for Geographic Analysis Institute Certificate FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND GRANTS Harvard Distinction in Teaching Award 2017. Dissertation Research Scholarship, The Republic of Turkey, 2015-16. History Department, Summer Thesis Research Grant, Harvard University, 2015. Center for Middle Eastern Studies Summer Research Grant, Harvard University, 2015. History Department, Summer Thesis Research Grant, Harvard University, 2014. Meral Divitçi Prize Turkish Poetry in Translation, for my co-authored translations Silent Stones (a selection from the modernist Turkish poet Melih Cevdet Anday’s poems), USA, 2014 (the publication of the book from Talisman Press in the U.S. (see below)). Center for Middle Eastern Studies Summer Research Grant, Harvard University, 2014. Kulturkontakt Writer-In-Residence, The Austrian Ministry of Culture, Vienna, Summer 2013. Center for Middle Eastern Studies Summer Language Grant, Harvard University 2012. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Fellow in Islamic Studies, Harvard University 2010-2012. Center for Middle Eastern Studies Summer Language Grant, Harvard University 2011. Dartmouth University Undergraduate Essay in Philosophy Prize, Second Place, 2009. The Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination Fellow, Princeton University, 2008-9. XIV International Philosophy Olympiad (IPO), Gold Medal, Cosenza, Italy, 2006 [Received the Gold Medal at the World Philosophy Olympiad, an annual international philosophy competition for high school students all around the world organized in Italy in 2006]. Princeton University Poetry Awards 2005, Second Prize, with three poems, April 2005; Varlık National Poetry Awards 2004, Recommendation Prize, with an unpublished manuscript, July 2004. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Wellesley College Fall 2019 REL 260: Religion and Culture in Muslim Societies (30 hrs) Fall 2019 REL 263: Islam in the Modern World (30 hrs) Spring 2020 WRIT 169: Dream Narratives (Writing Seminar) (30 hrs) Spring 2020 REL/HIS 266: Religion in Ottoman State and Society (1300-1923) (30 hrs) Spring 2020 REL/PHI 366: Themes in Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Mysticism (32 hrs) Course Suggestions for Wellesley College (2020-21) Spring 2021 REL/CPLT: Love and Desire: Poetry and Authorship in the Islamic World (32 hrs) Spring 2021 REL/POL: Politics and Society from the Late Ottomans to Modern Turkey (30 hrs) Harvard University Spring 2017 Advanced Turkish I (30 hrs) Spring 2017 Turkish Languages and Literatures (30 hrs) Fall 2016 Advanced Turkish I (30 hrs) Fall 2016 Turkish Languages and Literatures (30 hrs) Spring 2015 Advanced Turkish II (30 hrs) Fall 2014 Advanced Turkish I (30 hrs) Spring 2014 Byzantine Civilization (30 hrs) Spring 2014 Intermediate Turkish II (30 hrs) Fall 2013 Ottoman State and Society (1300-1550) (30 hrs) Spring 2013 Advanced Turkish II (30 hrs) Fall 2012 Advanced Turkish I (30 hrs) 2 RESEARCH POSITIONS 2017- 2019 Research Assistant at Harvard Business School 2017- 2019 Graduate Student Coordinator at Harvard University’s Center for European Studies RESEARCH RECORD August 2018 Süleymaniye Manuscript Library (Istanbul, Turkey) January 2018 Süleymaniye Manuscript Library (Istanbul, Turkey) August 2017 various Sufi lodges and graveyards (Bursa, Turkey) June 2016 El Escorial Library (Madrid, Spain) November 2015 Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Vienna, Austria) 2015-2016 Archival Research at Süleymaniye Manuscript Library, Millet Manuscript Library, Bayezid Manuscript Library, The Center for Islamic Studies (İSAM) and Marmara University’s Faculty of Divinity (Istanbul, Turkey) Summer 2015 Qasid Institute (Amman, Jordan) Summer 2014 Qasid Institute (Amman, Jordan) ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals/Edited Volumes On “Philosophy and Theology in the Early Ottoman Empire”: “Doğada Fâillik mi? Tanrı’da Seçicilik mi? 15. Yüzyıl Tehâfüt’leri Bağlamında İlliyet ve Determinizm,” in Osmanlı’da İlm-i Kelâm (Istanbul: İSAR, 2016), 349-409. On “Political Islam in the Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey”: “Islamic Capitalism in Turkey,” in Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspective, co-authored with Kristin E. Fabbe and Ümit Özlale (New York: Routledge, 2019). “Political Islam in Turkey,” in Routledge Handbook of Turkish Politics, co-authored with Kristin E. Fabbe (New York: Routledge, 2019). On “Historiography and Poetry in the Early Ottoman Empire”: “Poetry in the Text: The Use and Function of Poetry in Rāwandī’s Rāḥat al-ṣudūr and Yazıcızāde cAlī’s Translation of the Same Work in Tevārīkh-i Âl-i Selçūḳ,” The Journal of Ottoman Studies 42 (Winter 2013): 349-372. On “Ottoman Travel Accounts of India”: “A Travel Guide to India for Ottoman Merchants: On Meḥmed Emīn Efendi’s Taḳrīr,” International Review of Turkish Studies 2.1 (Spring 2012): 30-49. “Experiencing the Experience: Seydī cAlī Reis and the Indo-Muslim World,” Journal of Turkish Literature 8 (Winter 2011): 26-40. On “Modern Persian and Turkish Poetry”: “Şicr-i Nev ile Şicr-i Sefîd Arasında: Çağdaş Farsçada Şiir, Garip ve Türkçe Şiirde Farsça Etkisi Meselesi,” Şarkiyat Mecmuası [Journal of Oriental Studies] 25 (2014): 187-226. “The Garip Preface (1941),” co-authored with Sidney Wade, in Global Modernists on Modernism, ed. Alys Moody and Stephen J. Ross (London: Bloomsbury, 2020): 199-204. 3 “Temsilin Malzemesi, Malzemenin Düzenin: İlhan Berk’ten Fatih’e Somut Bakışlar,” in Şiir Her Yerdedir: İlhan Berk 100 Yaşında, ed. Necmi Sönmez (Istanbul: Yapı Kredi, 2018), 86-91. WORK IN PROGRESS On “Philosophy and Theology in the Early Ottoman Empire”: Edition/Translation (from Arabic » Turkish) Ḫocazāde Muṣliḥiddīn Muṣṭafā, Tahāfut al-falāsifa, co-trans. Prof. Hasan Hacak (Istanbul: Türkiye Yazma Eserler Kurumu Başkanlığı, 2020), under contract/in preparation. [An Arabic edition and a Turkish translation of a classical fifteenth-century work of Islamic philosophy from the Ottoman Emğire, a work that I’ve analyzed in my Ph.D. dissertation at Harvard University]. Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals/Edited Volumes “Arbitrating Among Philosophy, Theology, and Sufism: The Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Culture of Verification” (in progress). “An Archaeology of a Court Debate: Mollā Zeyrek versus Ḫocazāde on the Proof of God’s Unicity” (in progress). “Select Texts on Occasionalism and Secondary Causes from Ḫocazāde’s (d. 893/1488) and cAlā’ al- Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s (d. 887/1482) Tahāfut adjudications,” in A Sourcebook of Ottoman Intellectual History (New York: UPenn Press, 2022) (in progress). On “Political Islam in the Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey”: “The State Approach to Official and Unofficial Islam in Turkey in the Aftermath of July 15th,” The Oxford Handbook of Politics in Muslim Societies, co-authored with Prof. Kristin Fabbe (in progress). On “Reception of Persian Poetry in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey”: "Khayyam, Omar: xiii. Translations, Turkish" in Encyclopædia Iranica (under contract) LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS “Ezra Pound Amid Turkey’s Cultural Wars: Authority, Epic, and Word Choice in the Turkish Cantos,” Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication Lecture Series, Princeton University, Princeton, USA: April 06, 2020 (rescheduled for November 2020). “On Translating Ezra Pound’s Cantos,” The American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages (AATT) Conference, Tulane Unviersity, New Orleans, USA: November 13,