A. Tunc Sen

A. Tunç Şen is an Associate Professor of History and Co-Director of the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University. He specializes in the history of the Ottoman Empire and its many connections with the early modern world. As a social and cultural historian of scientific and intellectual practices, Şen focuses on how people perceived the world, the frameworks through which they organized information and beliefs, and the social, political, economic, and emotional structures that both shaped and were shaped by their ways of knowing. He is the author of Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450–1600 (Stanford University Press, 2025), as well as numerous articles on the history of science and divination, manuscript culture, the history of emotions, and the social history of education in the Ottoman and broader Islamic world.

A. Tunç Şen serves as an Executive Committee Member.