Curriculum Vitae
19th-20th Century Europe, Social Network Analysis (SNA), and Historical Linguistics
CURRICULUM VITAE
Surname
Abacı
Name
Nurcan
Date of Birth 21.07.1966
Adress
Uludağ University,
Faculty of Arts&Sciences, Department of History
Görükle Kampüsü-16059
Bursa/Turkey
E-mail
nurcanabaci@gmail.com
Web page
http://uludag.academia.edu/NurcanABACI
Phone
90+224+294 18 59
Education
21 .05. 1999
26. 09. 1994
08. 07. 1991
Ph.D., Ankara University, Institute of Social Sciences.
M.A, Uludağ University, Institute of Social Sciences.
Bachelor, Middle East Technical University, Department of History.
Employment
1997 to date
Extra-curricular reference and supplementary tutorials in Intensive
Ottoman Summer School in Cunda by Harvard University and Koç
University (except 1999).
02.05.2012 to
Professor Dr., Department of History, FAS, Uludağ University.
date
09.10.2006-01- Associate Prof. Dr., Department of History, FAS, Uludağ University.
05.2012
12. 10 2001-Assistant Prof. Dr., Department of History, FAS, Uludağ University.
08.10.2006
19. 12. 1994/ 11.Lecturer, Department of History, FAS, Uludağ University.
10. 2001
27. 11. 1992/ 18.Research Assistant, Uludağ University, Institute of Social Sciences.
12. 1994
Fellowships
2007-2008
1997-1998
1997
Getting Closer to Death: Last Wills of the Ottoman Elderly in Terms of
Social Stratification, (1700-1800). Grant by Av. Humboldt. Freiburg
University.
Research fellow, Center for the Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard
University, grant by Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA).
Research fellow , Universität Bamberg, grant by Turkish Academy of
Sciences (TÜBA).
Teaching Responsibilities
Graduate Courses
Study of Archival and Narrative Ottoman Sources (Intensive Ottoman Summer School in
Cunda by Harvard University and Koç University)
Ottoman Urban Institutions in Classical Period (1300-1600)
Enlightment and European Order (1500-1800)
Undergraduate Courses
Fall
TRH 2013 Methods of Research in History
TRH 3013 European History (Early Modern Period)
TRH 4015 Contemporary World History
Spring
TRH 1024 Reading and Analysis in History
TRH 3007 European History (Modern Period)
TRH 4014 Readings in Social History
Selected Publications
Books:
Abacı, Nurcan. The Ottoman Judges and Their Registers, the Bursa Court Register B-90/295 (Dated Ah
1081/Ad 1670-71, Introduction and Text (Entries 1-600). Vol. I, Sources of Oriental Languages and
Literatures 79. Cambridge: Harvard University, The Department of Near Eastern Languages
and Civilizations, 2007.
Abacı, Nurcan. The Ottoman Judges and Their Registers, the Bursa Court Register B-90/295 (Dated Ah
1081/Ad 1670-71, Text (Entries 601-998) and Facsimile. Vol. II, Sources of Oriental Languages and
Literatures 80. Cambridge: Harvard University, The Department of Near Eastern Languages
and Civilizations, 2007.
Abacı Nurcan (Ed.), Papers of VIIIth International Congress on the Economic and Social History of
Turkey, Morrisville: Lulu Press, 2006.
Abacı Nurcan, Bursa Şehri’nde Osmanlı Hukuku’nun Uygulanması (17. yüzyıl), (Application of the
Ottoman Law as seen from Bursa Court Records, 17th Century) Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı
Yayınları, 2001.
Abacı Nurcan (Ed.), Bursa'nın Depremselliği ve Deprem Tarihi, (The Seismicity of Bursa and
History of its Earthquakes) Bursa: Uludağ Üniversitesi Yayını, 2001.
Research Projects:
The two Facets of the Mountain: A Social Network Analysis of Mountain and Immigrant
Villages of Bursa /Dağın İki Yüzü: Bursa’nın Dağ Yöresi Köyleri ile Göçmen Köylerine
Yönelik Sosyal Ağ Analizi (Supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Council
of Turkey-Tübitak. Grant no: 109K422). 2010-2012.
“Standarts of Everyday Life in the Middle Ages and in Modern Times”, (Researcher/LLP
Erasmus IP-St. Cyril St Methodius University of Veliko Tırnovo, 2012-2014).
“Being Linked or Powerful so as not to Break Up”: Social Networks and Actors in the
Ottoman Society According to Qadi Registers (1695-1700)/“Batmayacak Kadar Bağlantılı Ya
da Güçlü Olmak”: Kadı Sicillerine Göre Osmanlı Toplumunda Sosyal Ağlar ve Aktörler (16951700), (Researcher/Supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of
Turkey-Tübitak. Grant no: 112K270). 2012-2015.
Conference Papers:
Politics of Keeping Your Honor Intact: Gender and Defamation Cases in the Seventeenth
Century Bursa Court Records, Ottoman Subjects as “Homo Dictyous”: Reputation, Authority and
the Power of Words, 13th International Congress Of Ottoman Social And Economic History
(ICOSEH), 1-5 October, 2013, Alcalá.
Hz.İsa Kadı Mahkemesinde: Bir Kanıt Olarak Müslüman ve Hristiyanların Yemin Etme
Süreçleri, Hikayelerimiz ve Adaletin Mümkünlüğü: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’ndan Türkiye
Cumhuriyeti’ne Adalet Hikayeleri, 20th CIÉPO Symposium, New Trends in Ottoman Studies, 27 June –
1 July 2012, Rethymno, Crete.
Mountain and Immigrant Villages of Bursa in Comparative Perspective: Hierarchical or
Egalitarian Social Structure? Clio Harnessing the Spider: SNA (Social Network Analysis) of Ottoman
Bursa (15th - 20th Centuries), 45th Annual Meeting of Middle East Studies Association (MESA), 1-4
December, 2011, Washington D.C.
SNA (Social Network Analysis) and Ottoman History: A Social Network Analysis of Mountain
and Immigrant Villages of Bursa (Late Ottoman/Early Republic), 12th International Congress of
Ottoman Social and Economic History (ICOSEH), 11-15 July, 2011, Retz.
17.Yüzyılda İhtisap-Subaşılık Kurumlarının İşleyişi ve Yönetilenlerin Merkezle Temas
Noktaları: Bursa Örneği”, (Establishment of the Chief of Police in the 17th Century: A Case of
Bursa), Ciepo-15 International Committee Of Pre-Ottoman And Ottoman Studies (Comité International
Détudes Pré-Ottomanes Et Ottomanes), 15th Symposium, 8-12 July, 2002, London.
The Notion of "Identity" as seen from the Center in the Ottoman Empire: The Case of Bursa",
34th Annual Meeting of Middle East Studies Association (MESA), 16-19 November, 2000,
Orlando/Florida.
Osmanlı Kadı'sının Sosyal Konumu Üzerine Bir Araştırma, (An Investigation upon the
Position of the Ottoman Judge in Social Stratification) , XIII. Türk Tarih Kongresi, 4-8 Ekim 1999,
Ankara.