He has a BA in History and Sociology (Bogazici’00), an MA in History (Bogazici’03), and a PhD in History (Bogazici’16). His area of interest is urban experience with a focus on the use of public space (coffeehouses, khans, and public baths) and the exertion of power over public space within the context of early modern Istanbul. In his MA thesis, “The Coffeehouses in Early Modern Istanbul: Public Space, Sociability and Surveillance,” he looked at the coffeehouse in terms of its rearranging spatial organization and providing a novel model for public sociability. In his PhD dissertation, “The Han in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth- Century Istanbul: A Spatial, Topographical and Social Analysis,” he looked at the growth of urban commercial spaces, particularly urban khans, in the early modern city and the multifaceted relations between the governing power and the urban populace in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Istanbul. For the academic year 2008–2009, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University. He is an Assoc. Prof. at the Department of History, Beykent University, Istanbul-Turkey.