Bahar Bayraktaroğlu
PhD Researcher
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
Research Associate in Working Group Ottoman Slavery Working Group
Niebuhrstraße 5
D-53113 Bonn

Academic Profile
2021 – 2024
Ph.D. in Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn, German
2019–2021
M.A. in History, Sabanci University, Turkey.
2016–2019
B.A. in International Relations, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey.
2013–2019
B.A in History, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey.
2021–2024
Research Associate, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
2022–2023
Ph.D. Representative, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn
Fall 2021
Erasmus+ Intern, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
September 2019–June 2021
Teaching Assistant, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Summer 2018
Erasmus+ Intern, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Summer 2017
Erasmus+ Intern, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
2019–2021
The Turkish Historical Association Scholarship for Master’s
2019–2021
Sabanci University, %100 Tuition and Dormitory Fund.
September 2022
Paper Accepted. “Dependent Children In Nineteenth-Century Istanbulite ‘Elite’ Households” 34. Deutscher Orientalistentag, organized by Freie University, Berlin, Germany.
March 2021
Paper presented. “Observing Asymmetric Dependencies Over Centuries: Case of Circassian and Syrian Children in Istanbul” E-Symposium, organized by BCDSS, University of Bonn, Germany.
Spring and Fall 2021
SPS 101 (Society and Human I), Sabanci University, Turkey.
Spring 2020
HIST 192 (Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I, Sabanci University, Turkey.
Fall 2020
HIST 192 (Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I, Sabanci University, Turkey.
- “Fırat Yaşa (ed.) The Other Faces of the Empire: Ordinary Lives Against Social Order and Hierarchy.” trans. by Esra Taşdelen. (Istanbul: Koç University Press, 2022) Acta Orıentalia Academiae Scientıarum Hungaricae. Reviewed by Bahar Bayraktaroğlu. (Forthcoming)
- “Stephan Conermann / Gül Şen (eds.): Slaves and Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire” (Göttingen: V&R Unipress 2020) ) Sehepunkte, Issue 22 No. 6, 2022. Reviewed by Bahar Bayraktaroğlu / Turkana Allahverdiyeva / Zeynep Y. Gökçe. http://www.sehepunkte.de/2022/06/37157.html
- “Raif Kaplanoğlu : İlk Nüfus Sayιmlarιna Göre Istanbul’un Son Köleleri” (İstanbul: Libra Kitap 2018) Sehepunkte, Issue 22 No. 6, 2022. Reviewed by Bahar Bayraktaroğlu. http://www.sehepunkte.de/2022/06/37165.html
- “Yahya Araz : Osmanlι İstanbul'unda Çocuk Emeği. Ev İçi Hizmetinde İstihdâm Edilen Çocuklar (1750-1920)” (İstanbul: Kitap Yayınevi 2020) ) Sehepunkte, Issue 22 No. 6, 2022. Reviewed by Bahar Bayraktaroğlu. http://www.sehepunkte.de/2022/06/37159.htm
- 2019. “Book Review: Joshua White, Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean,” (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018), Journal of Divan Interdisciplinary Studies. Retrieved from: https://www.divandergisi.com/pdf/461.pdf