Producing the Ottoman Empire, Greening the Turkish Nation: Demographic Displacements and Cosmopolitan Visions in Resource Management
studied history at Middle East Technical University (METU) and the University of Texas-Austin before completing his Ph.D. in history at Sabancı University (Istanbul). Dursun wrote his dissertation on the history of Ottoman forestry. His current research is on the environmental (ecological) history of the Ottoman Empire, the Balkans, and the Middle East with a particular emphasis on the use and governance of natural resources. His publications include the transcription and facsimile edition of The Ottoman Treasury Registers of the Year 1680, 2 vols, Royal Asiatic Society Books. Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt Series (London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, forthcoming); Limits to Forest Administration in the Ottoman Empire: 1870–1914, in: Law and Transformation in the Russian and Ottoman Empires, ed. Huri Islamoglu and Jane Burbank (forthcoming) and A Call for an Environmental History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey: Reflections on the Fourth ESEH Conference (Review Article), in: New Perspectives on Turkey 37 (Fall 2007): 211-222.
During his stay in Berlin, Selçuk Dursun will be pursuing his project Producing the Ottoman Empire, Greening the Turkish Nation: Demographic Displacements and Cosmopolitan Visions in Resource Management.
