Max Weber Fellow
Department of History
Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies
Contact info
yasemin.akcaguner@eui.eu
Yasemin Akçagüner is a historian, specialising in the history of medicine in the late Ottoman Empire. She is currently a Max Weber post-doctoral fellow at the European University Institute, where she is affiliated with the HEC department. Yasemin recently completed her Ph.D. in Columbia University’s History department with the dissertation “Şanizade Ataullah Efendi and the Making of an Ottoman Medical Canon (1789-1826).” Her dissertation was a book history of the first Ottoman Turkish print medical book (The Pentalogy of Şanizade, 1820) and investigated how medical knowledge production transformed in the Ottoman Empire amid the rise of nationalism, the popularisation of print technology and the centralisation of Ottoman state power at the turn of the nineteenth century. At the EUI, Yasemin will be revising articles in the history of science and medicine, and conducting new research for her book manuscript, tentatively titled Anatomy of a Counter-Revolution: Medicine, Knowledge and Power in the Ottoman Empire (1789-1826).