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Murat Bozluolcay is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Rank of Instructor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago, where he has been teaching since 2023. His research focuses on the intersection of political economy, economic history, and intellectual history, with a specific emphasis on the Ottoman Empire and modern Middle East. He holds a PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University (2023), an MA in modern Turkish history from Boğaziçi University, and dual degrees (BA in Sociology and BS in Computer Science) from Koç University.
His work examines how concepts like 'commercial society' and 'capitalism' shaped political formations and academic frameworks in the Ottoman context. His doctoral research investigated the relationship between the Ottoman imperial center and Damascus’s provincial government through administrative and economic transformations (1820–1860), for which he received the Syrian Studies Association Dissertation Prize. His current projects expand on themes of provincial financing, revenue extraction, and European economic influences in Ottoman Syria.
Bozluolcay’s expertise spans Ottoman administrative history, economic historiography, and the intellectual legacies of political economy in the Middle East. He bridges disciplines, leveraging historical archives to analyze how 'the economic' became a distinct sphere of governance and scholarship.
