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Dr. habil. Hakan Karateke
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Harvard University
38 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

CMES, 38 Kirkland Street, 201
617-495-4750
617-496-8584
karateke@fas.harvard.edu

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Dr. Karateke received his degree from Bamberg University in Germany in 1998. He taught classes at Bamberg University focusing primarily on the Ottoman-Turkish Language and Literature, and at the Free University of Berlin. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies (Berlin) in 1999-2000. Before coming to NELC, he worked as an Assistant Professor of Ottoman-Turkish Literature at a University in Cyprus .

In the Fall of 2003, along with Cemal Kafadar and Cornell Fleischer, Dr. Karateke launched the project Historians of the Ottoman Empire (HOE). In the future, he hopes to realize a project compiling Ottoman inscriptions as a digital corpus. He has published texts on the 18th century Istanbul fountains and on headgears of Islamic orders in the Ottoman Empire. His dissertation on changes in state ceremonies in the 19th century Ottoman Empire is published in Turkish and he is preparing an English version of it.