At Brown University, I have assisted, taught, and guest lectured in courses on global histories of capitalism; early modern and modern Middle East history; imperial and Soviet Russia; and environmental history. At Boğaziçi University, I assisted courses on public finance and mathematics for economists.
I have also designed several courses, including “Empires of Extraction,” which offers a fresh perspective on early modern economic history and its intersections with military history, and the histories of science, labor, and environment, as well as social scientific theories on the role of extraction.
(Ottoman imagination of Spanish colonial mining in Potosí, c. 1600, from Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi (The History of the West Indies))
“Film as Archive” approaches film as an archive, pairing critically acclaimed leftist, feminist, and protest cinema with historical scholarship to examine lived experiences and power in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Middle East.
(Official poster of Susuz Yaz (Dry Summer, 1963) by Metin Erksan, exploring water conflicts in western Anatolia among cultivators, rich landowners, and small peasant farmers.)
I also teach “Global History of Capitalism” as a venue to discuss when and how capital became capitalism, covering a wide range of topics from long-distance trade, colonialism, and slavery to industrialization, shifts in energy regimes, and the rise of corporations, and concluding with open debates on neomercantilism, neo-feudalism, and surveillance capitalism.