Doç. Dr. GÜRER KARAGEDİKLİ

Dr. Gürer Karagedikli is an associate professor in the Department of History at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, where he also completed his PhD in 2017. For the 2018-2019 academic year, he was granted a Lady Davis Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

His research focuses on the socioeconomic history of the Ottoman Empire in the early modern and modern periods, with particular attention to urban wealth and inequality, urban identities, religious foundations (waqfs), Jewish communities, inter-communal relations, peasant land use and credit practices, and legal culture.

From 2021 to 2024, he directed a research project titled "House Prices and Urban Wealth Inequality in the Ottoman Empire, 1600–1913," funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). This project investigated residential segregation, property values, and patterns of urban wealth inequality across different regions of the Ottoman Empire.

He is currently pursuing three interrelated research projects. The first examines the role of waqfs in shaping the urban environment of nineteenth-century Ottoman İzmir. The second explores the social and familial dynamics of Jewish communities in the Ottoman Middle East. The third examines elite formation and giving practices in the Ottoman Empire. 

In addition to his research, he supervises postgraduate 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.