My first book Science without Leisure: Practical Naturalism in Istanbul, 1660-1732 (2019) explored the relationship between monetary inflation and natural knowledge in seventeenth-century Istanbul. My primary inspirations have been the materialist historiography of science, the emerging global history of early modern science and Pierre Bourdieu's Pascalian Meditations.  

Currently, I am writing a short book, titled The Science that Historians Made, that deals with questions of scientific work, culturally specific and culturally non-specific features of science and the relationship between the twentieth century and the twenty first century. 

I am also part of a research team that investigates notions of the natural and the supernatural in the Ottoman Empire. This is a multi-year project that has generous funding from the ERC.

Currently, I serve as the Faculty Director of the Penn's Middle East Center and am an elected member of History of Science Society's Council.

Science without Leisure

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