Work in Progress
“Sex ratios in the late Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey”
“Gender inequality in Ottoman Crete”
“Land and livestock prices in Anatolia, 1500-1920”
“Inequality of wealth and income in the Ottoman Empire, 1500-1800”
“House prices in Anatolia and Macedonia, 1460-1920″
Selected Papers
2025 “Land inequality in Ottoman Crete at the turn of the eighteenth century,” 15th ESSHC, Leiden, 26-29 March, with P. Ceylan.
2022 “Reflections on the economics of gender inequality in the Ottoman Empire: the case of eighteenth-century Kandiye (Iraklion),” Institute for Mediterranean Studies Seminars, December 24.
2022 “Child Sex Ratios in the late Ottoman Empire and Turkey, 1897-1965,” Conference on Sex Ratios and Missing Girls in History, University of Trondheim, May 5-6, with Alpay Filiztekin, Yavuz S. Kaçmaz, Meltem Özkan, Lara Yılmaz.
2022 “Intergenerational Mobility in the Ottoman Empire, 1460-1840,” XIX. World Economic History Congress, Paris, July 27, 2022, with A. Filiztekin.
2018 “Inequality of Income and Wealth in the Ottoman Empire, 1500-1800,” XVIII World Economic History Congress, with A. Filiztekin and Ş. Pamuk, Boston, July 29-August 3.
“Inequality and the Rich in Ottoman Anatolia and the Balkans, 1660-1840,” XVIII World Economic History Congress, with A. Filiztekin and I. Kokdas, Boston, July 29-August 3.
2018 “Slaveholding and its demise in Ottoman central lands: Bursa-Manisa-Trabzon, 1460-1880,” Fifth World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies,” with A. Filiztekin, Sevilla, 16-20 July.
2017 “Occupations and Investment in 19th-Century Bursa,” with M. Erdem Kabadayı and A. Filiztekin, Conference on Trade and Production in Ottoman Anatolia, VEKAM, Ankara, 28-29 September.
2016 “Very long-term trends in wealth inequality in Ottoman Bursa, 1460-1920,” ESSHC, University of Valencia, 30 March – 2 April.
2015 “Long term trends in inequality in Ottoman central lands,” the XVIIth World Economic History Congress, Kyoto, 3-7 August 2015.
2013 “Looking at the 18th century from before and after,” Keynote speech, Ottoman Empire in the 18th century: Continuity and Change, Şehir University, June 11-13.
2013 “Wealth and Inequality in an Ottoman City,” EHS Annual Conference, University of York, April 5-7.
2012 “Labor relations in the Ottoman Empire,” with E. Kabadayı, 9th ESSHC, Glasgow University, April 11-14.
2011 “The Age of Revolutions in the Ottoman Empire: A Provincial Perspective,” Conference on Well-Connected Domains, Intersections of Asia and Europe in the Ottoman Empire, Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg University, 10-12 November.
2011 “Consumption in Ottoman Manastir (Bitola) and Manisa: a Long Term Perspective,” Workshop on Ottoman Consumption in a Comparative Perspective, AHRC International Network, Global Commodities, University of Warwick and Istanbul Bilgi University, 15-16 September.