Slides for AJS Commons workshop that give an overview of the ways to develop a professional online presence, collaborate, and share scholarship on AJS Commons and Humanities Commons.

This rubric is designed to facilitate a creative and lively philosophical dialogue online by encouraging strong writing in blog posts and comments. These criteria will be used for the qualitative evaluation of the blog posts and comments.

Anton Pannekoek (1873–60) was both an influential Marxist and an innovative astronomer. This paper will analyze the various innovative methods that he developed to represent the visual aspect of the Milky Way and the statistical distribution of stars in the galaxy through a framework of epistemic virtues. Doing so will not only emphasize the u…[Read more]

Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960) was both an innovative astronomer and an influential Marxist. In this article we will investigate both his Milky Way research and Marxist philosophy, with special focus on his ideal scholarly persona and the epistemic virtues he advocated in his research. This focus allows us to place Pannekoek in the larger development…[Read more]

Guest presentation in Projects in Rare Book Digitization course (Pratt University, LIS 666) on analyzing digitized books and printed materials with digital humanities methods (primarily text analysis).

A paper published in the Vangelis Kechriotis special issue of Toplumsal Tarih (August 2016, no: 272). Edited by Ece Zerman.

“Tarihçi Kechriotis’in Tarihini Yazmak: Bir Başlangıç, Bir Deneme” (Writing the History of Kechriotis, the Historian: A Beginning, an Essay). Toplumsal Tarih 272 (August 2016): 54-56.

Tarihçi Vangelis Kechriot…[Read more]

Kentel, K. (2017). Charles King. Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul. New York: W.W. Norton, 2014, xiv 476 pages. New Perspectives on Turkey, 57, 146-150. doi:10.1017/npt.2017.34