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Well-Connected Domains, Pascal W. Firges, Tobias P. Graf, Christian Roth, and Gülay Tulasoğlu showcase recent scholarship on the deep entanglements between the Ottoman Empire and the world beyond its borders, offering novel interpretations and fresh impulses for future research.
About the author
Pascal W. Firges studied history in Heidelberg, Paris (IV), and Cambridge and is currently completing his PhD at Heidelberg University's Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe." He has published a monograph on British-Ottoman relations in the late eighteenth century.
Tobias P. Graf has read history at the University of Cambridge before joining the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe" in 2009. He recently defended his doctoral thesis on Christian-European "renegades" in the early modern Ottoman elite.
Christian Roth works for Baden-Württemberg's Ministry of Integration, inter alia in the fields of intercultural opening, forced marriages, and the labor market. Alongside, he is pursuing a PhD in Ottoman studies at Heidelberg University's Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe."
Gülay Tulasoğlu is a lecturer at Hacettepe University, Ankara. In 2012, she completed her doctoral thesis on European consuls as agents of the modernization processes in the Ottoman administration of early-Tanzimat Salonica, which she is currently turning into a monograph.