Ahmet A. Ersoy

Ahmet A. Ersoy is Associate Professor at the History Department at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. Ersoy works on the history of the Late Ottoman Empire with a special focus on the changing role and status of visual culture in a period of modernizing change. He is the author of Architecture and the Late Ottoman Historical Imaginary: Reconfiguring the Architectural Past in a Modernizing Empire (2015); and with Vangelis Kechriotis and Maciej Gorny (eds), Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeastern Europe (1775-1945): Texts and Commentaries, vol. III (Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2010). Ersoy’s recent research involves the entwined histories of new media technologies (in particular photography) and print culture. His publications include “Ottomans and the Kodak Galaxy: Archiving Everyday Life and Historical Space in Ottoman Illustrated Journals,” in History of Photography, 40/3 (September 2016); and with K. Mehmet Kentel, “Burnt Panorama: Forensics, Photography, and the 1870 Pera Fire in Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, K. Mehmet Kentel, M. Baha Tanman, On the Spot: Panaromic Gaze on Istanbul, a History (Istanbul: Pera Museum, 2023).