354|Contributors
vangelis kechriotis passed away in August 2015. He was assistant professor of
history at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. He was coeditor of Economy and Society
on Both Shores of the Aegean and Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and
Southeast Europe (1770–1945): Texts and Commentaries, vol. 3, bk. 1, Modernism:
The Creation of Nation-States, and vol. 3, bk. 2, Modernism: Representations of
National Culture.
julia landweber is associate professor of history and women’s and gender
studies at Montclair State University.
murat cem mengüç is assistant professor of Middle Eastern history at Seton
Hall University.
f. özden mercan is a PhD candidate in the Department of History and Civiliza-
tion, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
leslie peirce is Silver Professor and professor of history at New York Univer-
sity. She is author of The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman
Empire and Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab.
kent f. schull is associate professor of history at Binghamton University,
State University of New York, and author of Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire:
Microcosms of Modernity.
amy singer is a professor of Ottoman history in the Department of Middle East-
ern and African History, Tel Aviv University. She is author of Palestinian Peas-
ants and Ottoman Officials,Constructing Ottoman Beneficence, and Charity in
Islamic Societies.
theoharis stavrides is associate professor in the Department of Turkish and
Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cyprus, and author of The Sultan of Vezirs:
The Life and Times of the Ottoman Grand Vezir Mahmud Pasha Angelović.
darin n. stephanov is Marie Curie COFUND Junior Fellow at the Aarhus In-
stitute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus, Denmark.
nicolas trépanier is associate professor of history at the University of Missis-
sippi and author of Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia: A New Social
History.
charles wilkins is associate professor of Middle Eastern history at Wake
Forest University and author of Forging Urban Solidarities: Ottoman Aleppo,
1640–1700.