Murat Yaşar

Murat Yaşar is a Professor in the Department of History at the State University of New York at Oswego (SUNY Oswego). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto (2011) and teaches courses on Ottoman Empire history, Middle Eastern history, digital history, and gender studies in the Islamic world. His research focuses on Ottoman-Muscovy relations in the North Caucasus, Islamic borderlands, and minorities in the Middle East. He has received awards for teaching excellence, including the SUNY Oswego Professor Recognition Award (2016–2017) and the Certificate of Teaching Excellence (2016).

Key research areas include the history of the Ottoman Empire, the Caucasus region, and digital approaches to historical analysis. His book The North Caucasus Borderland (2022) examines imperial rivalries between the Ottomans and Muscovy. Other publications analyze Ottoman-Russian relations, Circassian ethnography, and pedagogical challenges in Middle Eastern history education. His work often bridges early modern imperial dynamics with contemporary borderland studies.

Yaşar has advised no listed graduate students but teaches courses such as 'Digital History: Mapping Islamic Slavery' and 'Harems, Bathhouses, and Brothels: Gender and Society in the Islamic World.' He maintains an active research agenda on Eurasian borderlands and regularly publishes in journals like Iran and the Caucasus and Acta Orientalia.