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Giancarlo Casale

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I am a specialist in the history of the early modern Ottoman empire, although I also have interests in the history of geography and cartography, global exploration, and comparative empires. I have just completed my first book, a study of Ottoman expansion in the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century, which explored the ways in which the growth of the Ottoman Empire during this period was part of the same historical process that witnessed the contemporaneous expansion of numerous other imperial powers, ranging from the overseas empires of Spain and Portugal to rival Islamic states like Mughal India and Safavid Iran. My next major project, tentatively titled "Curiosity and Intolerance: The Paradox of Early Modernity," is a comparative study of the development of ethnographic modes of writing in early modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire. At the same time I am also engaged in several smaller research projects on topics including corsairs and the development of Ottoman naval technology, the connection between naval power and deforestation in the Mediterranean region, and a geo-historical study of the earthquake of Dubrovnik in 1667.


Specialties

  • Ottoman Empire and modern Middle East
  • Pre-modern and early modern world history

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2004.

Publications

  • Casale, Giancarlo. "Global Politics in the 1580s: One Canal, Twenty Thousand Cannibals, and an Ottoman Plot to Rule the World." Journal of World History 18 (2007): 267-296. Download
  • Casale, Giancarlo. "The Ethnic Composition of Ottoman Ship Crews and the 'Rumi Challenge' to Portuguese Identity." Medieval Encounters 13 (2007): 122-144. Download
  • Casale, Giancarlo. "The Ottoman 'Discovery' of the Indian Ocean in the 16th Century." Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Global Cultures, and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges (2007): 87-104.
  • Casale, Giancarlo. "The Ottoman Administration of the Spice Trade in the Sixteenth-Century Red Sea and Persian Gulf." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 49 49/2 (2006): 170-198. Download
  • Casale, Giancarlo. "His Majesty's Servant Lutfi: The career of a previously unknown sixteenth-century Ottoman envoy to Sumatra based on an account of his travels from...." Turcica 37 (2005): 43-81. Download
  • Casale, Giancarlo. "An Ottoman Intelligence Report from the Mid Sixteenth-Century Indian Ocean." Journal of Turkish Studies 31/1 (2007): 181-88. Download
  • Casale, Giancarlo. "Ottoman 'Guerre de Course' and the Intercontinental Spice Trade." Itinerario 32/1 (2008): 59-79. Download
  • Casale, Giancarlo. The Ottoman Age of Exploration. Oxford University Press, Forthcoming, January.

Awards

  • McKnight Land Grant Professorship, 2009 - 2011
  • Koc Senior Research Fellow in Anatolian Civilizations, Spring 2009
  • Institute for Advanced Studies Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Fall 2008
  • NEH/ARIT Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2004 - 2005
  • Fulbright-Hayes Research Fellow, 2002 - 2003
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