Uygar AYDEMİR, Ph.D

Uygar Aydemir is an assistant professor in the Department of History of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Üsküdar University in Istanbul. Aydemir has a PhD in History from Sabancı University, an MA degree in Turkish Literature from Bilkent University, and a BA degree in Cultural Studies from Sabancı University. He finished his doctoral dissertation in December 2017. The title of his dissertation was “Mahmud Nedim Pasha’s Critique of the Tanzimat Bureaucracy: State Modernization, Political Strife, and Great Power Intervention.” The courses he taught include “A 19th century History of Ideas in the Ottoman Empire”, “Sociological Thought of Ibn Khaldun”, “World History” and “Ottoman Turkish.” He attended international conferences in the UK, France, the Netherlands and Germany. His recent articles appeared among the publications of Turkish Historical Society and The National Museum of Leskovac.