Veysel Şimşek teaches modern Turkish and Ottoman Turkish at McGill University. Previously, he taught these languages in Turkey and Canada to various groups of students from Turkish and other backgrounds. He also has considerable experience with translating and publishing documents, manuscripts, and printed material in Ottoman Turkish. Prior to his current appointment at the Institute of Islamic Studies, he held a Chauncey Postdoctoral Fellowship with International Security Studies of Yale University (2016-18), and served as a postdoctoral research fellow and interim codirector of the Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC) of McGill University (2015-16). His research interests include political, social, and intellectual history of the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic (c. 1750–1950), and he has taught various courses on Ottoman, Middle Eastern and World History at Yale, McMaster, and Bilkent.
Email: veysel.simsek [at] mcgill.ca
