Pinar Emiralioglu

Pınar Emiralioğlu is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Sam Houston State University, specializing in Ottoman Empire history, geographical knowledge, and imperial culture. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (2006), alongside degrees from Bilkent University and Boğaziçi University in Turkey. Her research explores the intersection of geography, cartography, and imperial politics in the Ottoman context, with a focus on the 16th to 18th centuries.

Dr. Emiralioğlu teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on world history, Middle Eastern history, and the Ottoman Empire. Her major publications include Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (2014) and articles on Ottoman cartography, cross-cultural diplomacy, and imperial spatial consciousness. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction and has been involved in academic committees like the American Research Institute in Turkey (2015–2016).

Her research projects include analyzing Ottoman geographical works’ role in imperial identity formation and investigating the Ottoman Empire’s geopolitical understanding of regions like China. She actively contributes to interdisciplinary discussions on empire studies and historical cartography.