A. Tunç Şen

A. Tunç Şen is Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University. He specializes in the history of the Ottoman world from its beginnings in the fourteenth century through the early twentieth century, focusing on the history of sciences and divination, manuscript culture, the history of emotions, and the social history of scholarship. His forthcoming book, Forgotten Experts: Astrologers and Scientific Expertise in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1600, will examine what “scientific authority” and “expertise” meant in the early modern context. He is a member of an international research project, Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition: Exploring Magic, the Marvelous, and the Strange in Ottoman Mentalities, funded by the European Research Council. He regularly teaches courses on Ottoman-Turkish history, the history of the occult in the Muslim world, and Islamicate manuscript culture.

Tunç Şen serves as an Advisory Committee Member.