AKIN SEFER

Assistant Professor AKIN SEFER

ARAŞTIRMA MERKEZİ BİNASI 2. KAT 205

+90 (212) 5336532 - 1389

Education

Doctorate

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
Tarih

Master's Degree

BOĞAZİÇİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Tarihi

Bachelor's Degree

BOĞAZİÇİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler

Research Areas

  • Late Ottoman History
  • Labor
  • Migration
  • Industrialization
  • Maritime

Work Experience

2010 / 2011 Boğaziçi University
Research Assistant

2011 / 2018 Northeastern University
Teaching Assistant/Instructor

2018 / 2023 Koç University
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Publications

  • Sefer, Akın; Erünal, Efe ; Kabadayı, M. Erdem (2023), "Mid-Nineteenth Century Gemlik and Its Environs: A Snapshot of a West Anatolian Region in Its Long-Term Economic and Demographic Development", Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2023.2233354
  • Tınaz, Kerem; Sefer, Akın (2023), "A Field on the Move: Notes on the Recent Historiography of Late Ottoman Migrations in Turkish", Diasporas, DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/diasporas.11060
  • Kabadayı, M.Erdem; Sefer, Akın; Boykov, Grigor ; Gerrits, Piet (2022), "Making of a Mid-Nineteenth Century Ottoman Gazetteer and Mapping and Examining Late Ottoman Population Geography", Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, Vol.9, No.2, 179-204 DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/tur.2022.a902201
  • Sefer, Akın; Yıldız, Aysel; Kabadayı, M. Erdem (2021), "Labor Migration from Kruševo: Mobility, Ottoman Transformation, and the Balkan Highlands in the 19th Century", International Journal of Middle East Studies, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743820000847
  • Sefer, Akın (2021), "British Workers and Ottoman Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul", International Labor and Working-Class History, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547921000028
  • Sefer, Akın (2013), "From Class Solidarity to Revolution: The Radicalization of Arsenal Workers in the Late Ottoman Empire", International Review of Social History, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859013000485

Projects

Project Name Role in the Project Project Type Fund Establishment Project Date
Karadeniz Sahili ile İstanbul'da Gemi Yapımı ve Emek Göçü, 1827-1878 Proje Yürütücüsü Ulusal Proje TÜBİTAK-1001 15.10.2021
15.10.2024
Karadeniz Sahili ile İstanbul'da Gemi Yapımı ve Emek Göçü, 1827-1878 Yürütücü Ulusal Proje TÜBİTAK ARDEB 15.10.2021
15.10.2024

Courses Offered

Course Name Course Code Period
Tobacco: A History of Capitalism from America to Cibali  KHAS1356 2023/24 Spring
History of Modern Turkey II HST102 2023/24 Spring
History of Humankind KHAS103 2023/24 Fall
History of Humankind KHAS103 2024/25 Fall