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Canan Bolel
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Kathryn Medill
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Scott Noegel
Professor
Director of Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East Program
Hamza M. Zafer
Associate Professor

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Sex in Sixteenth-Century Istanbul. In: Wiesner-Hanks ME, Kuefler M, eds. The Cambridge World History of Sexualities. v. 3. Cambridge University Press; 2024:191-209.
"Edebiyatı Dizgeye Getirmek: Köprülü’nün İlk Darbesi Olarak “Türk Edebiyatı Tarihinde Usul" Usulden Yönteme M. Fuad Köprülü'nün Edebiyat Tarihçiliği (İstanbul: VakıfBank KültürYayınları 2023), 17-30.
Jeon, Minsoo, "Translation as Rewriting: Yazıcızāde ‘Āli’s Political Use of Poetry in Tevārīḫ-i Āl-i Selçuk" (2022). Thesis.
"Early, Yet Already Late: Literary Musings on Historical Questions." Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, vol. 7 no. 1, 2020, p. 55-57. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/762063.
Windhauser, Bret. "Pushing Boundaries: Israeli-Palestinian Smuggling Across Border Walls" (2020). Thesis.
Aguirre- Mandujano, Oscar, "Poetics of Empire: Literature and Political Culture at the Early Modern Ottoman Court" (2018). PhD Dissertation
Kebeli, Sevim, "Ottoman Reflections on Gender, Class and Race in Victorian England: Abdülhak Hamid Tarhan's Finten" (2015). PhD Dissertation.
“Israel in Jewish American Literature.” In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Jewish American Literature. Ed. Hannah Wirth. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Andrews, Walter G. "William M. Reddy. The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900–1200 CE." American Historical Review 118, no. 4 (October 2013): 1147-1148
Terri DeYoung (trans.) and Issa J. Boullata (trans.), IBN 'ABD RABBIH: THE UNIQUE NECKLACE (AL-'IQD AL-FARID), Vol. III. Garnet Publishing, 2011, 317 pages.

History

Canan Bolel

Selim Sırrı Kuru

Kathryn Medill

Scott Noegel

Hamza M. Zafer