Dimitrios V. Giagtzoglou
In July 2014 I earned my bachelor’s degree in history form the Department of History and Archaeology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In October 2018 I earned my Master’s degree in Ottoman History from the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete. As of December of the same year I receive, following a competitive procedure, a doctoral fellowship for conducting research within the ERC Consolidator Grant 2017 project titled “GHOST - Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition: Exploring Magic, the Marvelous, and the Strange in Ottoman Mentalities”. (Action number: 771766), funded by the European…
Zeynep Aydoğan
Zeynep Aydoğan received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Boğaziçi University, Department of History, and her doctoral degree from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Central Asian Studies. In her dissertation, entitled “Representations of Cultural Geography in Late Medieval Anatolian Frontier Narratives”, she examines different layers of Turco-Muslim identities in the epic narratives of the Muslim conquest of Anatolia. Her research interests include the cultural history of Anatolia and the Balkans between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, the formation and early historiography of the Ottoman state, the popular accounts of Turkish religio-heroic literature in the pre-modern era. After completing her Ph.D.…