Günhan Börekçi
Professor
Medieval Studies
Central European University
Hungary
Biography
Günhan Börekçi received his Ph.D. degree in history from the Ohio State University in 2010. His main areas of research and teaching include early modern Ottoman political, dynastic and social history, 17th-century global crisis, military history, history of horsemanship and traditional archery. In addition to his numerous articles and encyclopedia entries on Ottoman history, he has published with Ahmet Arslantürk a facsimile edition of Feridun Ahmed Bey’s illustrated chronicle, Nüzhet-i Esrârü’l-Ahyâr der Ahbâr-ı Sefer-i Sigetvar [Topkapı Palace Museum Library, MS Hazine 1339], on Süleyman the Magnificent’s last Hungarian campaign in 1566 (Istanbul, 2012). His study on the Ottoman imperial campaign against the Habsburgs in 1596 came out under the title, Macaristan’da Bir Osmanlı PadiÅŸahı: Sultan III. Mehmed’in EÄŸri Seferi Rûznâmesi (1596) [The Dairy of Sultan Mehmed III's Imperial Campaign of 1596] (Istanbul, 2016).
Research Interest
Advanced Source Reading Class in Ottoman Historiography (16th-17th Centuries), Advanced Source Reading Class in Ottoman Historiography (16th-17th centuries), CC + tutorial: The “Seventeenth-century Crisis” in Comparative Perspective: European and Ottoman Experiences, Core Class + tutorial: Sources, Methods and New Perspectives in Ottoman History (15th to 18th centuries).