Max Weber Fellow
Department of History
Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies
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Yasemin Akçagüner is a historian, specialising in the history of medicine in the late Ottoman Empire. She 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 part of the interdisciplinary research cluster “Expert Knowledge and Authority in Transformative Times” and will be working on her book manuscript, tentatively titled Anatomy of a Counter-Revolution: Medicine, Knowledge and Power in the Ottoman Empire (1789-1826).