Doç. Dr. GÜRER KARAGEDİKLİ

Dr. Gürer Karagedikli is an Associate Professor of History in the Department of History at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, where he received his PhD in 2017. He has been selected as a Gerda Henkel Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study Sofia in 2026-2027. Previously, he held a Lady Davis Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem during the 2018–2019 academic year. 

His research is situated at the intersection of early modern and modern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern socioeconomic history with particular attention to Ottoman lands in Anatolia, the Balkans, and Greater Syria. It focuses on themes such as rural and urban property and class, urban identities, religious endowments, Jewish communities, intercommunal relations, patterns of urban wealth, practices of giving, elite formation, land use, peasant indebtedness, and legal cultures.

He served as the coordinator of the TÜBİTAK-funded research project titled “House Prices and Urban Wealth Inequality in the Ottoman Empire, 1600–1913,” which was completed in 2024. His current research projects include Jewish Families in the Ottoman Middle East, Elite Formation in the Ottoman Empire, and The Urban Environment of Ottoman Port Cities.

In addition to his research, he teaches courses on Ottoman urban history and Ottoman non-Muslim communities, he supervises postgraduate and doctoral students at METU and co-supervises a doctoral student at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He welcomes proposals from prospective MA and PhD students interested in the social and economic history of the Ottoman Empire.