I am an economic and social historian of the early modern Ottoman Empire, working on the political economies of large-scale mineral extraction. My research focuses on the production of saltpetre and sulphur for gunpowder and silver for coinage in the semi-arid regions of Central Anatolia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. More broadly, I study military production and expenditure, early supply chains, and forms of economic authority negotiated among states, contractors, guilds, and local communities. I work extensively with legal archives, including court records and records of local disputes, alongside the account and expenditure books of military and extractive enterprises, using these sources to reconstruct both the local workings and larger scale of these economies.

I am currently the David Richards Junior Research Fellow in Economic History at Wadham College, University of Oxford (2026–29). Previously, I was an Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA’s Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (2025-26). I received my PhD in History from Brown University in May 2025. My research has been supported by fellowships from the American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) and the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED); and one of my papers received the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association’s Best Graduate Student Paper Prize in 2024.

I completed my undergraduate studies in Economics and History at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, where I also received my MA in History.

My teaching spans economic and social history, the global history of capitalism, environmental history, and the histories of the Middle East and Imperial and Soviet Russia, with particular attention to labour, science, technology, and political economy.

I have been an active contributor to member-run academic initiatives on the political economy and economic history of the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East, as well as collaborative networks on early modern mining in global perspective. I have organised and chaired panels at international conferences on the histories of capitalism, environment, and labour within and beyond the Ottoman Empire.

Alongside my academic work, I have also translated books and articles on social theory, historical materialism, and eco-socialism. During my undergraduate years, I co-organised curriculum-change campaigns at Boğaziçi aimed at increasing pluralism in economics education and participated in international initiatives including Rethinking Economics and the International Student Initiative for Pluralism in Economics.