Turkana Allahverdiyeva

My research topic focuses on mainly ‘Non-elite Household Slavery in Crimean Khanate in 1700-1720’. I am intensively working with Kadiasker court records of Crimean Khanate starting from 1700-1701. I read sources in Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, English, and Russian.

My interest areas also include Strong Asymmetrical Dependency (SAD) in the Ottoman Empire, Daily life of Slaves and Captives, Hiring Human Bodies and Dependency in the 18th century, and Deschiphering Ottoman Turkish Archive materials.

2021–present
Ph.D.  present, Ph.D. candidate, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS),        Bonn University, Bonn, Germany
Language of research: English
Supervisors: Prof. Christoph Witzenrath and Prof. Suraiya Faroqhi

2018–2021
Joint Ph.D. in Turkish/Ottoman Studies, (incomplete)
Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey
Language of instruction: English, Turkish (GPA: 3.88)
Supervisors: Prof. Suraiya Faroqhi and Prof. Halil Berktay

2015–2016
Research Fellow
Instituto Politecnico do Viana do Castelo (IPVC), Portugal                                                            Language of instruction: English

2011–2013
Master of Arts in Diplomacy and International Affairs (MADIA),                                                  Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, Baku, Azerbaijan                                                                                        Language of instruction: English (GPA: 3.23)

2007–2011
Bachelor in International Economic Relations, Graduated with Distinction
(Honors), University of Economics (UNEC), Baku, Azerbaijan
Language of instruction: Azerbaijani
SSAC 621 out of 700

2021–present
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), Bonn University,
-Research Associate and PhD Candidate
-Equal Opportunity Representative

2018–2021
Teaching Assistant (TA) at the History Department,                                                                                      Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey

• Courses:
  -HIST 101 – History of Modern Turkey I – Fall Semester, 2018, taught
   by Dr. Faruk Yaslicimen
  -HIST 102 – History of Modern Turkey II – Spring Semester, 2019,
   taught by Prof. Halil Berktay
  -SPS 101 – Society and Humanity I – Fall Semester, 2019, taught by Prof. Halil Berktay
  -SPS 102 – Society and Humanity II – Spring Semester 2020, taught by
   Prof. Halil Berktay

2014–2018
Head of the Career and Development Center,                                                                                          Baku Business University, Baku, Azerbaijan

2022                                                                                                                                                                      1-31 July Received funding for archival research in Istanbul, Turkey - BCDSS, Bonn University

2021                                                                                                                                                        Advanced Ottoman Turkish Summer School Scholarship- BCDSS, Bonn University

2018–2020
Highest Achievement Scholarship and yearly tuition waive – Ibn
Haldun University, Turkey

2019
Intermediate Ottoman Turkish Summer School Scholarship –Ibn                                                    Haldun University, Turkey

2015–2016
Erasmus Effort T1 Staff Exchange Scholarship –IPVC, Portugal

2007–2011
Azerbaijan State Higher Education Scholarship – Baku, Azerbaijan

Upcoming 2023                                                                                                                                        “Practises of Slavery in the Early Modern Crimean Khanate: Voices of Non-Muslim Slaves”, Workshop “Slavery, Law, and Religion in the Early Modern Period”, 8-9 March, UCLouvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

“Being a Female Slave in Early Modern Bakhchysarai: Umm al-walads”, Workshop “Slavery in the Islamicate World”, organized by TraSIS and BCDSS, 30 August-1 September, Bern, Switzerland

2022                                                                                                                                                                   "I Came to this Country of my own Will": Slave Trade in the Early Eighteenth- Century Crimean Khanate.  27-29 August, History days, Rotterdam, Netherlands

“Agency and Manumission of Non-elite Household Slaves in the early Eighteenth-century Crimean Khanate". 12-17 September, Deutscher Orientalistentag, Berlin Frei University, Germany

"Beni Icareye Dutmuş idi: Indentured Service and Agency of Non-Muslims in the Early Eighteenth Century Crimean Khanate".  3-15 October, Istanbul Sabancı University, OTTOLEGAL, Turkey

"Non-Elite Female Slavery and Agency in the Eighteenth-Century Crimean Khanate".                           1-4 December, 56th Annual Meeting MESA Denver, Colorado, USA

2019

“Analysis of Ransom Slavery Alongside The Ottoman-European Frontiers-Temeşvarlı Osman Aga”, Graduate Congress for Modern Turkish Studies at Istanbul Şehir University, 19-21 April, Istanbul, Turkey

2021                                                                                                                                                              Certificate of Attendance for “Academic English Refresher: C1/C2”,
June 16, 18, 23, 25, 2021 with 32AE, Bonn Graduate Center, University of Bonn

Certificate of Attendance for “Preparing Funding Applications”, 16 March,
2021 with 10 AE, Bonn Graduate Center, University of Bonn

Certificate of Attendance for “Basic of the Law on fixed-term contracts”, 12
May, 2021, Bonn Graduate Center, University of Bonn

Certificate of Attendance for “Getting Started – The Successful Path to a
Doctorate Degree”, 3-4 May, 2021 with 16 AE, Bonn Graduate Center,
University of Bonn

Certificate of Attendance for “Navigating Social Media for Scientists”, 4, 9,
11, 16 March, 2021 with 16 AE, Bonn Graduate Center, University of Bonn

Certificate of Attendance for “Project and Time Management fort the PhD”
27, 28, 30 April with 12 AE, Bonn Graduate Center, University of Bonn

Certificate of Attendance for “TK- Mental Strategies: Stay calm during your
doctorate”, 9, 16, 23, 30 August – 6 September, 2021, Bonn Graduate Center,
University of Bonn

2019                                                                                                                                                          Certificate of Participation in Graduate Congress for Modern Turkish
Studies at Istanbul ̇ Şehir University for the thesis presentation on
‘Analysis of Ransom Slavery Alongside The Ottoman-European Frontiers-Temeşvarlı
Osman Aga’, 19.04.2019, Istanbul, Turkey

2018                                                                                                                                                              Certificate of Training on “Enhancing Quality Assurance
Departments at Azerbaijan Universities” at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),
25.08.2018- 01.09.2018, Stockholm, Sweden

Certificate of Teaching Mobility within Erasmus+ (STA) – University of
Economics in Katowice, Poland – 23-28 April, 2018

2017                                                                                                                                                          Certificate of Teaching Mobility within Erasmus+ (STA) – SMK
University of Applied Social sciences, 20.03.2017 – 24.03.2017, Vilnius, Lithuania

2015 - 2016                                                                                                                                                Certificate of Staff Exchange Mobility in the Erasmus Mundus Project
Education Force: Driving Mobility for EU – East Europe Cooperation (Effort) for a
period of 10 months, Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo (IPVC) - 19.09.2015 –
05.07.2016, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

2014                                                                                                                                                             Mevlana instructor at University of Kastamonu – Academic Staff
Certificate of Attendance – 3- 9 November, 2014, Kastamonu, Turkey 2017–2020
Member of Editorial Team, "Global Histories: A Student Journal"

2022                                                                                                                                                          Lecture on “Asymmetrical Dependency and Non-Elite Slavery in
the Early Modern Crimean Khanate”, Ghent University, Belgium, 24.11.2022

2020                                                                                                                                                            Research Seminar on ‘Non-elite Household Slavery in the
Eighteenth-century Crimean Khanate’ at Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery
Studies, University of Bonn, 9.3.2020, Bonn, Germany

2021                                                                                                                                                      Book Book Review: Captives of the Sultan, a Captive Camp in Istanbul (1715),
Cemal Çetin, Palet Yayinlari, Istanbul, 2015. Reviewed by Turkana Allahverdiyeva, Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, Selçuk University, 2021.

2022                                                                                                                                                      Book Book Review: with Zeynep Yeşim Gökçe, Bahar Bayraktaroğlu: Slaves
and Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire, ed.by. Stephan Connermann, Gül Şen, Bonn
University Press, University of Bonn, 2020. Reviewed by Turkana Allahverdiyeva, Sehepunkte, 2022.

Book Review: From Slaves to Prisoners of War, The Ottoman Empire,
Russia and International Law, Will Smiley, Oxford, 2018. Reviewed by Turkana Allahverdiyeva, Sehepunkte, 2022.

Book Review: Osmanlı Sarayında Sanatçı Cariyeler, IV Mehmed Dönemi 1677-1687,
Günnaz Çaşkurlu, Ötüken, 2020. Reviewed by Turkana Allahverdiyeva, Sehepunkte, 2022.