Tyler Kynn [email protected]

CURRICULUM VITAE: TYLER KYNN

(He/Him/His) History Department Univeristy of Memphis Instructor

EDUCATION

Yale University, New Haven, CT PhD, History, [May 2020] Dissertation: “Encounters of Islam and Empire: The in the Early Modern World.” Committee: Profs. Alan Mikhail, Abbas Amanat, Rosie Bsheer, Eric Tagliacozzo, and Supriya Gandhi.

Central European University, Budapest, HU MA, Comparative History of Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe, June 2014. Thesis: “The Politics of Loyalty: The Confessional and Ethnic Loyalties of the Kurds in Seventeenth-Century Eastern Anatolia.” Advisors: Profs. Tijana Krstic and Tolga Esmer.

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN. BA, History, June 2012. Thesis: “Patchwork Identity: Perceptions of Identity in Seventeenth Century Ottoman Aleppo and Izmir." Advisor: Professor Giancarlo Casale

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Visiting Research Fellow: King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia- January and February 2018 Fulbright: Turkey, Research (2017-2018) (Declined due to Residency Requirement) MacMillan International Dissertation Research Fellowship (2017-2018) Passed Doctoral Examinations with Distinction Mark (Spring 2017) ISS Summer Grant- for Ottoman Turkish (2016) FLAS Summer Language () (2015) Central European University Partial Fellowship: 2012-2014 Yildiz Technical University: Summer 2013 (Partial Tuition Waiver) Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) Summer Research Travel Grant (2013) Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) – Summer 2010 (Turkish)

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Global History History of the hajj in a global context Histories of the Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal, and Moroccan States Islamic World Tyler Joseph Kynn [email protected] History of the Modern Middle East Hajj and the Age of Imperialism Early Modern Identity and State Formation Trans-Imperial Connectivity Mobility and Migration Travel Literature Coffee and the Islamic World Gender and Imperial Power

TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND PREPARATION

Instructor of Record

University of Memphis, Instructor: Starting Fall 2020

Yale University Summer Session A – Summer 2020 [Online Course] HIST S344/MMES S346- “Making of the Modern Middle East” [Lecture Course]

Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey – Spring 2020 [Adjunct Lecturer] [All courses delivered partially online via Panopto and Canvas as of March 23, 2020] HIST 105 “Emergence of European Civilization, 1500-1914” [Intro Lecture Course] HIST 112 “Introduction to the Modern Middle East” [Intro Lecture Course] HIST 141 “Introduction to World History since 1500” [Intro Lecture Course]

Smith College: Northampton, Massachusetts – Fall 2019 [Replacement Faculty-Lecturer] MES/HIST/MED 224 “The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire from 1299–1918” [Lecture Course] MES/HIST 223 “Mobility and the Middle East: Pilgrims and Nomads to Migrants and Refugees (1500 to the Present)” [Seminar Course]

Yale University Summer Session B – Summer 2019 HIST S344/MMES S346- “Making of the Modern Middle East” [Lecture Course]

Teaching Fellow [Yale University]

HIST 396- “India and Pakistan” (Professor Rohit De) HIST 340/AFST 340- “Africa In the Era of the Slave Trade” (Professor Harms) Spring 2017 GLBL 281/HIST 221- “Military History of the West since 1500” (Professor Paul Kennedy) Fall 2016 HIST 344/MMES 346- “Making of the Modern Middle East” (Professor Rosie Bsheer) Spring 2016

Doctoral Examination Regional Fields [Yale University]

Major Field: Ottoman Empire with Professor Alan Mikhail Minor Field: Safavid and Qajar Empires with Professor Abbas Amanat Minor Field: Mughal Empire with Professor Rohit De Tyler Joseph Kynn [email protected] Minor Field: Modern Middle East with Professor Rosie Bsheer

INVITED SPEAKER

Harvard University, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (May 3rd 2019), “Between Empire and Sacred Space: as a Global Space in the Early Modern World,” at the Mecca: The Lived City Symposium

CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

“Imagining Space: A Mughal Pilgrim's Encounter with Empire and the Islamic World,” at the Narrating the Hajj Conference at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, December 2019 “The Seasonal Empire: Ottoman Authority in the Early Modern Harameyn,” Middle Eastern Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana November 2019. “Defining the Self and Demarcating Difference: The Hajj and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean,” at the Entangled Identities in the Early Modern Mediterranean Conference at the Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (SMRS) at Saint Louis University, June 2019. “Producing Subjects, Consuming Empire: Ottoman Patronage and Imperial Stipends in Seventeenth-Century Mecca and ,” AUK Gulf Studies Symposium, Kuwait City, Kuwait, March 2019. “Encountering Difference: Early Modern Pilgrimage to Mecca and Muslim Self-Fashioning,” Stony Brook HGSA Graduate Conference, March 2019. “Encountering Islam and Empire: The Early Modern Hajj and the Political Meanings of a Trans- Imperial Space,” At Peripheries: The Politics of Space and Place Graduate Conference at Brown University, Feb. 2019. “Sailing to Mecca: Mughal Imaginations of the Islamic World,” Yale InterAsia Connections Conference, “Alternative Asias: Currents, Crossings, and Connection,” New Haven, Connecticut, February 2016. “The Boundaries of Loyalty: Self-Fashioning and the Kurds in the Seventeenth-Century Eastern Anatolian Ottoman Borderlands,” Middle Eastern Studies Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, November 2015. “War and the Boundaries of Loyalty: Self-Fashioning and the Kurds in the Seventeenth-Century Eastern Anatolian Ottoman Borderlands,” Yale Center for Historical Enquiry & the Social Sciences (CHESS) Graduate Conference “War and Its Consequences,” New Haven, Connecticut, February 2015.

WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE COORDINATION AND PARTICIPATION

Conference Panel Organizer, “Pious Encounters with Empire,” Middle Eastern Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana November 2019. Graduate Student Coordinator, Early Modern Techne Workshops, “Making Bodies, Defining Identities,” “Skill,” and “Technology,” New Haven, Connecticut, Fall 2016-Spring 2017. Organizing Committee Member, Yale InterAsia Connections Conference, “Alternative Asias: Currents, Crossings, and Connection,” New Haven, Connecticut, Fall 2015-Spring 2016 Commenter, “New Directions in Arabian Peninsula Studies Workshop,” New Haven, Tyler Joseph Kynn [email protected] Connecticut, April 2016. Commenter, “Sharia in Motion: Islam, Law, and Mobility in Asia,” New Haven, Connecticut, April 2016. Regular Participant, “Yale Early Modern Empires Workshop,” New Haven, Connecticut, Fall 2015-2018.

PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming Article, “Pirates and Pilgrims: The Plunder of the Ganj-i Sawai, the Hajj, and a Mughal Captain’s Perspective,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (JEHSO). (2020/21)

MA Thesis, “The Politics of Loyalty: The Confessional and Ethnic Loyalties of the Kurds in Seventeenth-Century Eastern Anatolia,” Central European University, 2014.

Future Plans, Turn PhD Dissertation into a Book, “Encounters of Islam and Empire: The Hajj in the Early Modern World.” Submitting Article to Archivum Ottomanicum [August 2020]: “Endowments and the Global Ottoman Empire: The Hajj and Early Modern Ottoman Romania” Submitting Article, “Indian Pilgrims in Ottoman ” Submitting Article, “The Seasonality of Ottoman Imperial Power: The Case of the Harameyn” Submitting Article, “City of Eunuchs: Medina and Ottoman Sovereignty” Submitting Article, “’There is No Water Here’: Environmental Imaginations of the Early Modern Arabian Peninsula” Brill Series Submission, “The Anis al-Hujjaj: A Mughal Pilgrim and the Muslim World” [Critical Edition of Manuscript and Analysis], New Persian Sources series organized by Dr. Abbas Amanat Second Book Project: Distance and Empire: The Hajj and Imperial Power in Arabia, 1517- 1917”

RESEARCH LANGUAGE READING LEVELS

Modern Turkish: Advanced Ottoman Turkish: Advanced Classical Arabic: Upper Intermediate Persian/Indo-Persian: Intermediate French: Intermediate

INTENSIVE LANGUAGE TRAINING OUTSIDE OF COURSEWORK

Ottoman Turkish, 2 summer programs Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC), Summer 2016 -Intensive Summer Course in Advanced Ottoman Turkish in Istanbul, Turkey Tyler Joseph Kynn [email protected] Yildiz Technical University, Summer 2013 -Intensive Summer Course in Ottoman Paleography II in Istanbul, Turkey Modern Turkish, 1 summer program Yeditepe University, Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program, Summer 2010 -Intensive Summer intermediate Turkish Program in Istanbul, Turkey Arabic (MSA and Classical), 1 summer program American Language Institute in Fes (ALIF), Summer 2015 -Intensive Summer Course in Intermediate Arabic in Fez, Morocco along with private lessons in reading Classical Arabic

ARCHIVE AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY EXPERIENCE

Turkey, Summer 2016 and Spring 2018 Prime Minister’s Ottoman Archives, Istanbul, Turkey Topkapi Palace Museum Manuscript Library, Istanbul, Turkey Suleymaniye Manuscript Library, Istanbul, Turkey United Kingdom, Spring 2018 British Library, London, UK Al-Furqan Institute, London, UK Morocco, Summer 2015 Bibliothèque Nationale du Royaume du Maroc, Rabat, Morocco Saudi Arabia, Winter 2018 King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia DARAH (King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Private Hashemite Collections in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia India, Fall 2017 National Archives of India: Oriental Records Department, New Delhi, India Aligarh Muslim University, History Departmental Library, Aligarh, India Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama Manuscript Collection, Lucknow, India Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Arabic Persian Research Institute, Tonk, India Maharashtra State Archives, Mumbai, India Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vasti Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) Museum, Mumbai, India Jama Masjid Library, Mumbai, India

DIGITAL HUMANITIES GIS Mapping: Experience with and use of GIS mapping in research Hajj Trail Game: Educational Browser-Based Game based on research to be used for teaching (Fall 2020): (hajjtrail.com) Podcasting: Creator, editor, and host of Project Wasta Podcast which is a Middle Eastern History Professionalization Podcast – consisting of interviews with scholars, consultants, librarians, and museum curators on careers with Middle East-related degrees. Tyler Joseph Kynn [email protected] PRIMARY REFERENCES

Alan Mikhail Rosie Bsheer Eric Tagliacozzo Professor of History, Chair Assistant Professor of History Professor of History Yale University Harvard University Department of History 115 Prospect Street Center for Middle Eastern Mcgraw Hall, Room 346, New Haven, CT 06511 Studies Room 210 Ithaca, New York 14853 203-432-1343 38 Kirkland Street 607-254-6564 [email protected] Cambridge, MA 02138 [email protected] 617-495-2817 [email protected]