3. Instructors

Dr. Yaşar Tolga CORA (Boğaziçi University) – Ottoman Turkish Instructor

Dr. Cora is a historian of social and economic history of the late Ottoman Empire, with a particular focus on Armenian communities in Anatolia. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 2016 and then served as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2016–17. Dr. Cora is currently an assistant professor in the Department of History at Boğaziçi University, teaching courses on the late Ottoman Empire, the Turkish Republic, and Modern Middle Eastern history.

Dr. Ferenc CSIRKES (Sabancı University) – Ottoman Turkish Instructor

Dr. Csirkés received his PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago and is currently an assistant professor of History at Sabancı University. Prior to that, he worked at CEU in Budapest and the University of Tübingen. Straddling literary, intellectual, and cultural history, as well as historical sociolinguistics on the one hand, and Persian and Turkish on the other, his research focuses on the interrelation of the politics of language, confessionalization, and state building in the larger Turko-Persian world during the late medieval and early modern periods.

Gheis EBADI (Berlin Humboldt University) – Ottoman Turkish Instructor

Gheis Ebadi is a research assistant at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Berlin Humboldt University. He is working on Qizilbash tribes and their effects on Ottoman and Iranian administrations and the formation and structure of sects like Alevi and Bektashi. Mr. Ebadi taught at the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at Allameh Tabatabei University of Tehran (2011–2012) and also Classical and Modern Persian courses at Bilkent University (2013–2015).

Dr. İpek HÜNER-CORA (Boğaziçi University) – Ottoman Turkish Instructor

İpek Hüner Cora completed her Ph.D. at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago in 2018. Her research interests include the history of Ottoman literature, gender, and sexuality as well as the history of reading. She has taught Advanced Turkish and Ottoman Turkish courses at the University of Chicago. She is currently teaching courses on Ottoman language and gender and space in early modern Ottoman Literature at Boğaziçi University.

Dr. Hakan KARATEKE (University of Chicago) – Program Coordinator

Dr. Karateke is a professor of Ottoman and Turkish Culture, Language, and Literature at the University of Chicago. He earned his doctoral degree in Ottoman and Turkish Studies from Bamberg University, Germany (1998), and completed his habilitation in the same field at Vienna University. Dr. Karateke has been teaching Ottoman Turkish at various levels and institutions for over two decades. He is the program coordinator of ANAMED’s Ottoman Summer Program.

Zeynep Fahriye GÜR – Turkish Instructor