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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies Director's Lecture Series is pleased to present
Bruce Masters
John E. Andrus Professor of History, History Department, Wesleyan University
Currently the John E. Andrus Chair of the History Department at Wesleyan University, Bruce Masters' research interests include the Ottoman Empire, Modern Middle East, and Ireland. His current project is on Christianity in the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1800. Masters received his MA at Wesleyan, his PhD in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations at The University of Chicago, and began his career back at Wesleyan in the department of History in 1982. In 1992, Prof. Masters was a visiting professor at the Fletcher School of International Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University; and in 1996 he held a visitor professorship in the Department of Modern History at the National University of Ireland-Maynooth.
Published works include: The Arabs of the Ottoman Empire, 1516-1918: A Social and Cultural History (2013, Cambridge University Press); Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab World (2001); The Origins of Western Economic Dominance in the Middle: Mercantilism and the Islamic Economy in Aleppo, 1600-1750 East (1988); The Ottoman City between East and West, co-authored with Edhem Eldem and Daniel Goffman (1999); Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, co-authored with Gabor Agoston (2009); Contributions to The Cambridge History of Turkey (2006) and The Cambridge History of Islam (2010); and various articles and chapters in edited books.
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Contact: Liz Flanagan
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